Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railway - Freestanding Arches on Waymarking.com

In the 1920's Ford motor company bought the railway. Large concrete arches were erected to supply electric power. The experiment did not succeed, and the concrete arches along 17 miles of railroad tracks, South of Detroit, are the only reminder of a dream.

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"There seems little doubt that Ford envisioned considerable use of electric motive power and certainly pioneered the motor-generator concept that was adopted in later times, but disenchantment and frustrations caused him to abandon further electrification beyond the first 17 miles under the concrete arches."

Type: Gateway Subtype: Other Location: DT&I Railroad

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Date Logged Log User Rating   05/01/2011 The D Zone visited it