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According to https://www.chicagorailfan.com/grrhist.html the Michigan Railroad Co. abandoned their private ROW in 1926 for streetcar routes, ultimately ending service in totality in 1928.
Anyone know when Michigan Railway ceased operations? Had to have been by the 70s at the latest, Hyde's 1976 inventory already refers to this as serving pedestrian traffic.
Ha, wow. So this was an actual rail bridge for just 13 years... O_o
I'd understand it a little more if it was in fact more like 1929-30 rather than 1928 - I.E. if the real reason it ended was due to the Depression. But to call it a day even before then?