TheDetroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway is a defunct railroad which operated in theUS state ofMichigan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Itself the product of several consolidations in the 1870s, it became part of theGrand Trunk Western Railroad in 1928.
The DGH&M was formed from the ruin of Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad, a successor road to theDetroit and Pontiac Railroad, one of the first roads organized in the state of Michigan. TheGreat Western Railway, a Canadian company, had taken financial control of the D&M in 1860 after it defaulted on debt payments. The D&M entered receivership in 1875; in 1878 Great Western purchased it outright and refinanced the debts. The reorganized company bore the name Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway.[1] ItsGrand Rapids, Michigan station was located at the corner of Plainfield and East Leonard.[2]
The new company possessed a 189-mile (304 km) line stretching fromDetroit in the southeast toGrand Haven on the eastern shore ofLake Michigan.[3][4] By 1882 the road came under the ownership of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada when the Grand Trunk acquired the Great Western, but it was not formally consolidated until 1928.[5]
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