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It is bad. There are 14 miles of the track from
Eastman Junction to the end at Stratford that is so bad that we operate it under caution and I am about to ask the railroad commission for the authority to take it up. There is no business on the branch to warrant our continuing in operation and we are
861:, eliminating the 14 miles (23 km) which had so concerned it. In 1918 it pulled back to Kalkaska, another 7 miles (11 km). Finally, in 1921, it abandoned the stretch between Kalkaska and Rapid City, removing the last vestige of the Grand Rapids, Kalkaska and Southeastern.
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Marquette official lamented the poor state of the line:
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Abandonment followed swiftly. In 1916 the Pere
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954:. Lansing, MI: Michigan Historical Commission.
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1023:Michigan State Tax Commission (1903).
818:Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad
1199:Railway companies established in 1897
1012:Michigan Railroad Commission (1906).
1001:Michigan Railroad Commission (1897).
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1157:Harbor Beach and Port Hope Railroad
1137:Saginaw, Tuscola and Huron Railroad
951:The Pere Marquette Railroad Company
1178:Pere Marquette Railroad of Indiana
888:"County Map: Kalkaska County - 40"
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948:Ivey, Paul (1919).
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1193:Categories
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911:Marquette.
897:2008-01-08
834:Rapid City
806:Republican
744:Stratford
234:Leiphardt
879:Stratford
719:Missaukee
960:66109442
943:. G.P.O.
937:(1917).
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671:Dempsey
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457:Spencer
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346:Soules
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1026:Report
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257:Mahan
58:Legend
865:Notes
832:) to
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1171:1907
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1099:1900
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988:ISBN
956:OCLC
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792:The
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