Chesapeake & Ohio Train Wreck near Walnut Street in Howell, Michigan - March 10, 1953
Thirty-eight cars of west bound Toledo-Grand Rapids freight train were wrecked at 7:25am. Cost around $250,000. A broken wheel on a car about 30 back from the head end is believed to have caused the wreck.
This is a photograph captioned "Depot with Ed Beach", and was included in David Finney's book, "Images of America, Howell', and it notes that this brick depot was built on the north side of Howell by the Ann Arbor Railroad in 1885-1886. To the right, there is a partial view of an omnibus from the Whipple House which was owned by Henry Whipple. In the background is the Michigan Avenue Bridge.
This is a photograph of a McKeen Motor Car stopped at the Cohoctah Depot, Livingston Michigan. This gas train ran between Toledo, Ohio, and Frankfort Michigan from 1910 to 1912. The home base was in Howell, Michigan. This picture is in Cohoctah.
The Ann Arbor Railroad owned five of these cars which were gasoline powered. They were also called "doodlebugs".