Holland and Lake Michigan Electric Road
2022.58.07
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"Grand Rapids, Holland and Lake Michigan Rapid Railway. BY GEORGE A. DAMON AND WILLIAM D. RAY. The Grand Rapids, Holland and Lake Michigan Rapid Railway company was incorporated on February 24, 1900, to construct and operate an interurban electric railway from Grand Rapids, Mich., the second city of the state, to Holland, and there connect with the Holland and Lake Michigan railway and the Saugatuck, Douglas and Lake Shore railway. From Grand Rapids, the eastern terminus, the road passes through the towns of Grandville, Jenison, Hanley, Jamestown, Vriesland and Zeeland, as indicated on the map, Fig. 1. A good farming country, an old and thickly settled rural community peopled by industrious Dutch and Germans, and given over to cultivation of acreages and fruit culture almost entirely, lies between Grand Rapids and the lake. Holland is practically the western terminus of the road. The total population served by the road outside of Grand Rapids is over 30,000. ... The Holland and Lake Michigan railway and the Saugatuck, Douglas and Lake Shore railway were lines constructed for summer-excursion business." from https://reference.insulators.info/publications/view/?id=9338&h0=holland
1899 Interurban electric train -1926
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4-3/4 in
137 Transportation on Land
Interurban Railroad 1899-1927
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