Grand Rapids Holland Interurban

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Great article. I loved it.
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Do we know when they tore this out?
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ns8401 wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 06, 2020 11:14 pm
 Do we know when they tore this out?
I think operations on the line ceased between 1928 and 1930. Would have been ripped out around that time too.
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Donald Van Reken wrote a book with lots of photos of this line about 30 years ago. I have it at home. You can still see where the tracks ran many years ago in Wyoming, Grandville, Jamestown, Holland, and Laketown Township. Sure wish we had it now to ride.
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Way cool! Thanks for sharing!
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Comes from The Insulator Gazette Newspaper. Lots of stuff about Hydroelectric development in North America at the turn of the 19th to 20th century...and it is all tied to interurban development...among other things.
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J T wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 07, 2020 6:48 am
ns8401 wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 06, 2020 11:14 pm
 Do we know when they tore this out?
I think operations on the line ceased between 1928 and 1930. Would have been ripped out around that time too.
From what I've been able to find the majority of the GRH&C came out around this time, with the segment between Grand Rapids and Grandville holding on until about 1932 when they finally gave up.
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