Record Group 49

Detroit United Railway (Interurban)

Finding Aid

 

Box 1 Shelf 8

Entry 1:  Newspaper and magazine articles

“Travel: Michigan’s Interurbans,” Chronicle, September-October, 1986

“Remember Suburban Street Cars?”

“Era of trains and trolleys,” Ann Arbor News, October 2, 2005

“Two Streetcar Lines Provide Northville-to-Detroit Service,” Northville Record,

            June 25, 1975

“Here Lies the Streetcar (1863-1956),” Detroit Free Press Roto Magazine, April 8, 1956

            (Acc. #82.70.8L)

“Do You Remember When Plymouth Had Trolleys?” April 1968 (Acc. #94.32.17)

“End of the Line,” Detroit Free Press, April 8, 1956 (Acc. #82.70.7L)

“Plymouth’s trolley car,” Plymouth Observer, June 17, 1974

“Cheap Tracks Now to Carry the Little Cars,” Electric Railway Service, October 8, 1920

“When Plymouth and Canton rode the rails,” Observer & Eccentric, December 15, 1988

“Area Histoirans Keep Track of Railroading’s Past,”  Observer & Eccentric,  September 20, 1990

“The Lying Evening News Still Continues to Lie,” Electric Railway Service, April 17,

            1914

“Detroit’s Suburban Buses,” Motor Coach Age 53, October-December 2002

“Track ‘N’ Trolley,” reprint from The Dearborn Historian 11, Winter 1971

“Karl Starkweather Tell of Early Days of Trolley Car in Plymouth,” The Plymouth Mail,

            Oct. 3, 1947

 

Entry 2:  Student essays

“Plymouth’s Transportation from 1899–1928:  The Interurban Railway”

“Plymouth Transportation:  The Interurban”

“The Inter-Urban Trolley”

 

Entry 3:  Pamphlets

“Detroit –its Trolleys and Interurbans” (3 copies) (Acc. #80.1.9L & #2007.100.01)

 

Entry 4:  Photographs

Train plowing through snow (Acc. #93.104.11)

Phoenix and Interurban bridges (Acc. #89.86.2L)

Interurban on Main St. (Acc. #99.126.40)

DUR station at Newburg (Acc. #76.229.6)

Employees standing outside train (Acc. #89.97.20L)

Train on unpaved road (Acc. #89.97.21L)

Train on Main and Penniman (Acc. #89.97.10L)

Trolley on Ice House Curve between Plymouth and Northville (4 copies)

            (Acc. #97.72, # 96.82.1N, #77.70.8,#89.97.8L)

Train on bridge with horse and buggy (4 copies) (Acc. #89.97.13L)
Scene on the Northville branch of the Detroit, Jackson, and Chicago Ry.

            89.97.4L)

Train approaching River Rouge trestle south of Northville (Acc. #89.97.1L)

Train near park (Acc. #89.97.12L)

Phoenix Tunnel (6 copies) (Acc. #75.200.6, #91.63.2L, #89.97.9L)

Main Street, Northville (#89.97.2L)

Train on bridge entering Northville (Acc. #89.97.6L)

Interurban on Main and Penniman, 1905 (3 copies) (Acc. #89.97.11L)

Trestle over Rouge River heading toward Northville with passengers and motorman and

            conductor, circa 1900 (3 copies)

Men on back of train going over bridge (3 copies)

Trolleys that went to Detroit (4 copies)

 

Larger photos

Shelf 39

Interurban #1000X-129

 

Map Case 2- Drawer 5

Pencil sketch of Detroit Interurban in 1898

Pencil sketch of interurban in Detroit on Woodward in 1930’s (Acc. #76.105.1)

Pencil sketch of family standing in front of train (Acc. #76.105.3)

Pencil sketch of interurban in the city in 1930’s (Acc. #76.105.2)

 

Entry 5:  Miscellaneous

Map of Detroit Interurban routes

Map of Detroit United Lines and Interurban connections

Handout about Detroit Interurban from Wayne Historical Museum, May, 1968

Time card of Detroit, Plymouth, Northville Ry. 1899

Weekday Plymouth Schedule, 1927

 

Entry 6: Early History of Detroit, Plymouth, Northville, Ry. (later part of D.U.R.)

Franchise agreement with Village of Plymouth, 1900

Memo to Martin Vrooman, April, 1898

Petition to Plymouth Council for railway, Aug. 31, 1898

Printer’s ad for the railway, Dec. 1901

Petition to Plymouth Common Council, Aug. 22, 1898

Petition to Plymouth Council to grant freight privileges, Dec., 1900

Petition to Plymouth Common Council Nov., 1096

Document issuing an ordinance granting the incorporation of the Detroit, Plymouth, Ann             Arbor Railway, June, 1900

Letter from railway to Village of Plymouth Clerk accepting the grant to incorporate the

            Railway, May, 1898

Petition from property owners regarding the location of the line for the railway, Aug. 1

            1898

 

Compiled by Lena Packer, 30 March 2006