Michigan Lake Shore Railroad
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The MLS was formed on October 13, 1869, by the consolidation of the Allegan and Holland Railroad and the Muskegon and Ferrysburg Railroad. The A&H was organized on July 29, 1868; the M&F on January 22, 1869. By July 1, 1870, a Script error: No such module "convert". line which linked Allegan to Muskegon on the coast of Lake Michigan finished construction.
The company carried mostly lumber and had difficulty turning a profit; in 1872 it entered receivership. On October 1, 1878, it was reorganized as the Grand Haven Railroad, which operated the road for another three years until it was consolidated into the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad.[1]
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- ↑ Ivey (1919), 34; Michigan Railroad Commission (1879), 289.
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