With a mainline that originated in the industrial port city of Toledo, Ohio, the Ann Arbor Railroad stretched northwest in a diagonal line across the length of

An illustrated book about the visionary, risky, and influential business of transporting loaded railroad cars across Lake Michigan

"The Haywire" played a major role in the industrial development of Michigan's Manistique and Schoolcraft counties.

Though living far north of the Mason-Dixon line, many mid-nineteenth-century citizens of Michigan rose up to protest the moral offense of slavery; they publishe