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The Ionia and
Lansing Railroad (sic) had difficulty in getting sufficient money to finish its construction and its credit was so bad that it received $ 770,000 of cash out of a bond issue with a par value of $ 1,820,000. Later on, in order to complete the line, it had to take on a second mortgage on
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896:, successor the Pere Marquette, abandoned the Warden–Eagle segment, leaving only the Kidd–Greenville and Grand Ledge–Lansing segments. The latter is owned by
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Very little of the I&L's original
Lansing–Greenville line exists today. In 1942 the Pere Marquette abandoned the Warden–Kidd segment; between 1972 and 1986 the
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in the 1860s and 1870s. The company incorporated on
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978:"Mid-Michigan Railroad, Inc.--Abandonment Exemption--In Kent and Montcalm Counties, MI".
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Marquette consolidated the I&L's successor, the
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Pere
Marquette Railroad Company and Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway Company
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History of Ionia County, Michigan: Her People, Industries and
Institutions
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company. In
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is a defunct railroad which operated in the state of
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Transportation
Department Documents and Publications
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1028:. Lansing, MI: Michigan Historical Commission.
1003:. Ionia County, Michigan: B.F. Bowen & Co.
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1226:Predecessors of the Pere Marquette Railway
1175:Grand Rapids, Lansing and Detroit Railroad
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959:Interstate Commerce Commission (1917), 23.
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1043:Michigan Railroads and Railroad Companies
1216:Railway companies disestablished in 1871
889:, it assumed some of the old debt load.
881:its property from Lansing to Greenville.
941:Branch (1916), 246; Ivey (1919), 48-49.
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853:. That year the road was bought out by
1119:Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad
932:Meints (1992), 89; Branch (1916), 246.
1211:Railway companies established in 1866
1180:Saginaw Valley and St. Louis Railroad
861:investors who already controlled the
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1159:Ionia, Stanton and Northern Railroad
1138:Detroit, Howell and Lansing Railroad
867:Detroit, Lansing & Lake Michigan
1025:The Pere Marquette Railroad Company
900:, while the former is owned by the
887:Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western
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910:Surface Transportation Board
24:Ionia & Lansing Railroad
1064:Meints, Graydon M. (2005).
1041:Meints, Graydon M. (1992).
997:Branch, Elam Edgar (1916).
812:Ionia and Lansing Rail Road
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982:. December 17, 2007.
16:Railroad in Michigan
1022:Ivey, Paul (1919).
838:, on the shores of
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906:RailAmerica
546:Grand Haven
272:Grand Ledge
1205:Categories
991:References
914:rail trail
857:and other
851:Greenville
778:Greenville
836:Pentwater
651:Sangsters
1034:66109442
1017:. G.P.O.
1011:(1917).
828:Portland
816:Michigan
752:Montcalm
701:Chadwick
426:Stebbins
401:Portland
55:Station
894:C&O
876:noted:
859:Detroit
847:Belding
820:Lansing
676:Orleans
550:Detroit
548:–
541:D&M
451:Collins
294:Clinton
246:Clinton
190:Clinton
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601:Warden
476:Webber
194:Ingham
33:Legend
920:Notes
824:Ionia
748:Ionia
671:45.66
621:41.36
576:Ionia
571:37.13
501:Lyons
496:31.75
471:30.63
446:28.36
396:23.05
376:Danby
350:Ionia
346:Eaton
324:Eagle
319:15.27
298:Eaton
242:Eaton
220:Delta
1168:1897
1147:1872
1126:1871
1074:ISBN
1051:ISBN
1030:OCLC
904:, a
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810:The
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726:Kidd
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