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Gasoline-powered Mckeen rail cars

Gasoline-powered Mckeen rail cars image
Description

Gasoline-powered Mckeen rail cars, like the one shown here crossing Ashley, operated between 1911 and 1925. Summer day trips were so popular that the railroad ran eight trains between Ann Arbor and Whitmore Lake. Locals called the run the "ping-pong."

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