Trade Card. Lake Shore & Mich. Southern Ry. The Unrivaled Passenger Route

LAKE SHORE & MICH SOUTHERN RY

Publication: Privately printed, n d ca 1876, N P

4 1/2" X 3" cream colored paper stock, printed in black on front side and in color on the other side. The front panel promotes the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad with a picture of Engine # 317 catching and delivering the fast mail compared to a horseback rider of 100 years ago, which is also pictured. The other side is captioned "Centennial Business Card" with pictures of George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant and dated 1776 and 1876. "In October 1867 the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad leased the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad. The CP&A changed its name to the Lake Shore Railway on March 31, 1868, and on February 11, 1869, the Lake Shore absorbed the Cleveland and Toledo. On April 6 the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad and Lake Shore merged to form the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, which absorbed the Buffalo and Erie Railroad on June 22, giving one company the whole route from Buffalo to Chicago. The main route passed through Dunkirk, NY, Erie, PA, Ashtabula, OH, Cleveland, OH, Toledo, OH, Waterloo, IN and South Bend, IN. An alternate route (the Sandusky Division) in Ohio ran north of the main line between Elyria and Millbury (not all track was laid until 1872). From Toledo to Elkhart, the Old Road ran to the north, through southern Michigan, and the through route was called the Air Line Division or Northern Indiana Air Line. Along with various branches that had been acquired (see below), the Monroe Branch ran east from Adrian, MI to Monroe, where it intersected the leased Detroit, Monroe and Toledo Railroad. At some point the original line to Toledo was abandoned west of the branch to Jackson, MI (Palmyra and Jacksonburgh Railroad), with the new connection at Lenawee Junction, the crossing between that branch and the line to Monroe." ---- Wikipedia. Fine, attractive copy.

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