Port Huron & Detroit : Complete Coverage

[wanswheel]

Port Huron was undersea half a billion years ago, there's lots of salt around. The Port Huron Salt Co. was incorporated in 1900 and soon the Port Huron Southern Railroad was built to connect the plant to the Pere Marquette. It had 3.24 miles of single-track mainline, about 2/3 of a mile of branchline, 1 locomotive, 1 engineer, 1 fireman, 1 conductor, 2 brakemen, 14 grade crossings and a 350-foot wood trestle. The president of the railroad was the owner of the salt plant, Joy Morton.

These links are to a map of St. Clair County and an article about the Port Huron & Detroit.

http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/imagesRRHX/Maps/74-StClairCoMap1.GIF

http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Stories/PH&D-StClairCountysEducatedLine%5BInsideTrack%5D.htm

Mike

[Andrew Falconer]

 

It looks like the PH&D had more leased 50' Box Cars in the 1970's fleet than could be used all at once on the home road, like many other short lines of the 1970's.

 

[MJChittick]

Maybe I can help you out a little.  Following are a couple of links that reference the PH&D:

http://www.railroadmichigan.com/porthurondetroit.html

http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Railroads/PH&D/PortHuronAndDetroit.htm

IF I can get it to import, here is a map of the line (sorry, not successful).  It ran from Port Huron to Marine City, MI, a distance of 17 miles.  It was absorbed by CSX sometime in the 1980's.

 

 

[Andrew Falconer]

What needs to be discovered is the Port Huron & Detroit completely covered.

I have looked and all I have found is a few photos and a few notes in history timelines.

The Michigan Railroading books do not show a map where the PH&D lines ran through Michigan.

I have not come across a complete roster of all the Locomotives and Rolling Stock ever owned by the PH&D. It can not be that much information, but it is hard to find.

Where is the complete story of the Port Huron & Detroit in one location?

Andrew Falconer