... of the 19th century and into the 20th a handful of Eastern railroads established steamboat lines as extensions of their services that ... to connect with the Northern Pacific at Duluth.
The railroads were forced to divest these steamship lines by the Panama Canal Act ...
... Detroit and Saginaw in the years before completion of railroads and highways to the communities of booming Northeast Michigan.
... the lumbering industry had moved to the West Coast and railroads connected most of the towns in the region. She operated afterward on ...