Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company Records 1849-1909

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Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company Records 1849-1909

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The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company was formed in 1869 by the merger of four railroads, the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana, the Cleveland and Toledo, the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula, and the Buffalo and Erie. In 1914 it was merged into the New York Central system. The collection consists of financial records of predecessor or subsidiary railroads which formed the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern system.

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The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway System was formed in 1869 through the merger of four railroads: the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana; the Cleveland and Toledo; the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula; and the Buffalo and Erie. These companies provided an unbroken rail route between Chicago, Illinois, and Buffalo, New York. The Lake Shore's predecessor roads had, in turn, been formed through mergers of a variety of smaller lines, some of which were amo...