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MOTOR CARS FOR THE ANN ARBOR ROAD
Hourly Service Between This City and Toledo Is the Plan of the Officials.
Will compete with the proposed electric road
Fast motor which Manufacture their own power will be used.

That the Ann Arbor railroad does not propose to allow the proposed Ann Arbor and Toledo electric line to monopolize the business between Ann Arbor and the Ohio city is evident from reports emanating from Toledo that plans are under way for the electrification of the Ann Arbor road.

According to a dispatch to the Times News from Toledo, officials of the Ann Arbor have already devised plans for the electrification of the road, and are preparing to go east to negotiate for the best thing in the way of motor cars to be had. It is probable that the Ann Arbor will use the Strang electric car, as the use of that car does away with the necessity of overhead work and power stations. This car manufactures its own electric power. One of the Strand cars was through here last summer when it made the run between New York and Chicago on the New York Central lines, and it has been demonstrated that it will do the work to satisfaction of railroad officials.

When the Ann Arbor gets its motor cars in operation there will be hourly service between this city and Toledo, and during the summer time the ping pong train will be superseded by a motor between this and the lake resorts north. The Toledo dispatch says:

Motor cars, similar to those used on the New York, New Haven & Hartford, will be in operation on the Ann Arbor railroad between Toledo and Ann Arbor, Michigan, before long. On account of the illness of George K. Lowell, vice president and general manager, the purchase of suitable motor cars by the Ann Arbor has been delayed, but Mr. Lowell, having practically recovered, he and President Eugene Zimmerman will leave for the east next week to investigate the motor car systems operated by the New York, New Haven & Hartford, the New York Central line and other roads.

It is the purpose of President Zimmerman and Vice President Lowell to select the best system of motor cars in use, and to that end will make a thorough investigation. They are favorable disposed toward the Strang car gasoline electric car, and that style of car may be accepted. The Strang car was invented by W. B. Strang, who built the Detroit & Toledo Shore Line railroad, and was given a severe test in a run entirely across the continent a few years ago. Since then this car has been used exclusively on some the best interurban and steam roads in the country.

With the advent of the motor cars there will an hourly service between Toledo and Ann Arbor the year round, and during the summer season these cars will be run through to Whitmore Lake and Lakeland. The latter arrangement will be a great convenience to the many Tolodoans who spend much time fishing in the lakes north of Ann Arbor. Eventually motor cars will take the place of the ping-pong steam train operated in the summer time between Crystal Lake and Frankfort, and General Passenger Agent J. J. Kirby, who was in the city today, says the motor car service will be extended to other portions of the Ann Arbor whenever it is expedient.

The new motor car service on the Ann Arbor will be conducted after the manner of the strictly electric interurban roads, offering the same facilities to farmers along the route.

As soon as the motor cars are put in operation the regular passenger trains, operated by steam, will be run through from Toledo to Ann Arbor without stop, and vice versa. The fare on the motor cars will be somewhat lower than that on the steam trains, in fact, the rates on the latter trains will remain as they are. But the company expects to adopt a motor that will make the run from Toledo to Ann Arbor in even better time than is now made by the steam cars.

Beside stopping at all villages on the route, the motor cars will make stops at section lines, when signaled or when there are passengers desiring to get off. This is the method followed in the local service of the interurban railways.

The Ann Arbor's motor car service is designed for local passenger traffic excessively. All through traffic will be handled by the steam trains on that road as at present.¹

MOTOR CARS ON THE ANN ARBOR
Hourly Service to Be in Vogue Between Toledo and University Town
STOPS TO BE MADE AT SECTION LINES
Fares Will be Lower Than Those on Steam Trains

The Toledo Blade on Wednesday evening issue of December 29, 1909, repeated previous story.

TO ELECTRIFY THE ANN ARBOR RY.
WILL PUT MOTOR CARS ON TO COMPETE WITH NEW ELECTRIC INTERURBAN

Toledo, Dec. 30. - The Ann Arbor Steam railroad between Toledo and Ann Arbor is to be electrified. Information was given out here today that company will put on motor cars between Toledo and Ann Arbor, with lower fares than the steam trains. With this end in view President Zimmerman and Vice President Lowell will leave for the east next week to investigate the motor car system operated on the eastern roads, and will the place their orders for cars. The decision of the Ann Arbor road to adapt the motor car system is considered in financial circles here to be a move on the part of Zimmerman to crush the proposed new electric railroad between Toledo and Ann Arbor, which is being rushed to completion for operation about Oct. 1, 1910.²

DOES NOT LOOK FOR MOTOR CARS ON A. A. ROAD
Member of Board of Commerce Declares Such Statements
Have Been Made Before

"I don't take very much stock in this talk that the Ann Arbor road is to be equipped with electric motors." was the statement made yesterday afternoon by one of the members of the local Board of Commerce, and then he proceeded to relate how each time that talk develops with respect to construction of an electric line through to Toledo, the officials of the steam road give out interviews declaring that they are about ready to start a motor car service between the two cities.

Continuing the speaker said: "I can recollect several occasions when the Ann Arbor road has agreed to put on a motor car service, but here we are today without a satisfactory service between this city and Toledo. The directors of the Board of Commerce have decided to offer every encouragement possible to have this traction line built between the two cities. In the first place Ann Arbor needs a direct connection with Toledo for business reasons, and then again it would open up all of that farming territory to the south so that farmers could go to the markets here. It is really immaterial to me whether the Ann Arbor road puts on motor cars or whether the traction line is built, but it is high time that something was being done to improve our railroad facilities to the south. The service afforded on the steam road is inadequate and many times people the other steam road and go way around by way of Detroit in order to go down to Toledo and still farther east. I am confident that a motor car line would pay the Ann Arbor company, and I hope to see them put the motor car proposition through and not delay any longer."³

MOTOR CARS

The passenger traffic of the Company is about 98 per cent. local, that is, it is either purely local - between stations - or originates or terminates at a local station, and any growth in its earnings from passenger traffic must come from a development and increase in its local travel.

This local traffic was threatened by the growth and extension of interurban electric lines into its territory. The road bed for one trolley line⁴ between Toledo and Ann Arbor being already graded.

After careful consideration of the whole question, the management concluded that the use of auto motor cars on the Ann Arbor, running like electric cars and making stops at principal road crossings, would not increase the earnings of the Company but would prevent encroachment on its territory by trolley lines.

The Board authorized the purchase of five McKeen motor cars, all steel, 70 feet long, seating 83 passengers. The purchase price to be $107,693.79, this was covered by Equipment 5% Gold Bonds Series "B", issued Jan. 1, 1911, and maturing Jan. 1, 1921.⁵

The first of these cars commenced running in May, 1911; all are now in service, and the results are more than satisfactory. They have added largely to the passenger earnings, and have developed a new class of travel which our regular trains, stopping at stations from four to eight miles apart, could not care for, namely, the "Cross Roads Travel."

From June 1st to September 1st, 1911, the passenger earnings have increased $22,800, or 4%, up to August 31st, 1911; the cars had been in operation three months, had run 69,099 miles, earned gross $30,725.03, an average of 44.5 cents per mile, at a cost of $9,320.86, or 13.5 cents per mile ( including 2.1 cents per mile for repairs and superintendent ), with a net earnings of $21,404.19, equal to 31 cents per mile, fully equal to the net earnings per mile of our best passenger trains with four cars per train, with an equipment costing three times as much as the motor car.

These cars are very popular with the people along the line, and the putting on of this local service has done more to place the Company and its patrons on good, friendly terms than anything else the Company could have done.

Incidentally, the graded roadbed of the proposed trolley line to Ann Arbor was offered for sale as soon as it was known the motor cars were ordered.⁶

New gasoline tanks (foundations for and installation) at Toledo, Ann Arbor, Owosso, Mt. Pleasant, Cadillac and Frankfort. Manhattan Wye for turning Ann Arbor trains, these appear to be for motor car usage, although the Manhattan Wye was large radius to permit engines to be turned.

ANN ARBOR IS NOT DISCOURAGED
Although It Cannot Operate New Cars Under
Schedule Like Those of Electric Lines

LANSING, Mich., Feb. 1. - The Ann Arbor Railroad Co., recently conceived the idea of purchasing five new gasoline motor cars, equipped with trucks to run on rails and with all the latest devises for comfort, the cost of each to $22,000.

It was the intention to operate these cars on some of their lines to give additional short service in competition with the electric lines, and it was proposed to make a minimum charge of 5 cents for short distances. Tuesday they appeared before the state railroad commission with the plan but were informed that the statute provides that the charge for steam roads for distances less then five shall be 3 cents per mile. Thus they will be forced to operate under an entire different schedule than electric lines for the same distance. Nothing daunted, however, they propose to put the cars in operation, and try out the plan.⁷

MORE LOCAL STOPS
New Ann Arbor Cars Will Take On Passengers at Crossroads
Five Stops Planned Between Owosso and Durand
Besides the Two Regular stations.

VERNON, Mich.., Feb. 3. - When the Ann Arbor Railroad company inaugurates its new local passenger service, in which its fine new gasoline cars will figure, farmers will given better accommodations by the railroad than at present. In the spring, when the new service is introduced, the new cars will make stops at the cross roads which are most convenient places for the farmers to take or leave the cars.

The local Ann Arbor agent has been securing he names of crossings between Durand and Owosso. They are Durand way, Clark's and Reed's crossing, Owosso way, Howd's and Miller's.⁸

NEW GASOLINE CARS ARE BEAUTIES
Engineer Hurst of Ann Arbor Road Receives Book
Containing Descriptions and Cuts.

Engineer J. B. Hurst has received a book containing full descriptions and cuts of the new gasoline cars which the Ann Arbor road is to put into operation about the middle of April. The cars are equipped with 6 cylinder engines, the cylinders of which are 10x12 inches in dimensions. The engines are 200 horse-power.

A view of the interior of the cars, is given and shows how pleasant the cars should be to ride in. The windows are round and dust-proof, and are arranged in such a way that from any part of the cars, an excellent view of the surrounding country is secured. In the rear of the car is a seat in the shape of a half circle, from which an excellent view is gained. The cars are lighted with acetylene gas.

The lines of the car are similar to a bullet, with a wedge-shaped front and round back. The front is thus shaped to present less resistance. Information from various parts of the country, particularly in the west, show that the cars have given excellent satisfaction.⁹

GASOLINE CAR HERE TOMORROW
FIRST OF ANN ARBOR'S NEW EQUIPMENT IS ON THE WAY HERE.
ROAD OFFICIALS ARE WITH IT
PARTY OF THEM IN PRIVATE CAR WENT TO FRANKFORT THURSDAY.

The first of the new gasoline motor cars which the Ann Arbor railroad expects to operate between this city and Toledo and this city and the lakes will be here tomorrow morning.

It is expected that the car will arrive in this city from Owosso about 10 o'clock and will proceed on to Toledo. The first of the week the car will go into service, and will make regular trips between Toledo and Ann Arbor.

The first of the Ann Arbor's order for five cars of this pattern has just been completed by the McKeen Car company of Omaha, Neb., and is now on its way to Toledo. It came across Lake Michigan on one of the Ann Arbor's car ferries and was delivered on the track at Frankfort, Mich.

W. D. Holiday, assistant to President Ramsey; J. J. Kirby, general passenger agent, and J. Goldbaum, auditor of the Ann Arbor, passed thought here Thursday afternoon in the road's private car for Frankfort where they met the new gasoline car and will take it through to Toledo. They are scheduled to leave Frankfort early Friday, the gasoline motor car pulling the private car. Stops will be made at all stations to permit the people along line to get a good view of the new equipment and Owosso will be reached Friday night. The Ann Arbor party will remain in the Michigan town over night and complete the journey Saturday, arriving in Toledo about 2:30 in the afternoon.

The McKeen company will complete the Ann Arbor's order as rapidly as possible and all the gasoline cars should be in operation by the middle of June. They are the first cars of this character to operated the middle west.¹⁰

BEULAH WAVELETS:
FIRST ELECTRIC CAR.

The first electric car to pass over this portion of the A. A. Ry. arrived in Frankfort Thursday by boat, and this Friday morning passed through Bealah eastward bound, making a few moments stop. President J. J. Kirby, assistant to President W. D. Holiday, Auditor J. Goldaum, Superintendent K. A. Goring were on board and stepped off the train and found one of the prettiest, busiest, fastest growing towns on their line. The new car is all steel and is equipped with the very latest up to the minute improvements, and was on it's way to Cleveland, Ohio. A similar car will be run on this portion of the road beginning early in June, and a new station established at Case's mills and passenger taken on at almost every county cross road making it a great convenience to farmers along the line.¹¹

NEW CAR ARRIVES
First Electric Service of Kind Installed By Ann Arbor Road
ELECTRICITY GENERATED ON BOARD

Five Cars Will Be Used and Will Cover Whole Length of Line
Owosso People Show Interest.

When No. 1, the first gasoline electric car to make its appearance on the Ann Arbor railroad, rolled into Owosso last night at about 8:15, a large crowd of people had assembled on the depot platform to take a squint at the vehicle. A number rushed through the car, but the majority were content with an external survey of its graceful and business like lines. Expressions of admiration were general.

The car left Frankfort, the northern terminal, yesterday mourning, a few hours after its arrival from the factory at Omaha. It made the regular stops during the day and was everywhere received by crowds of people, alive to the innovation of the inauguration of electric car service on a Michigan steam railroad.

Officers of the road who made the initial trip were W. D. Holliday, assistant to the president: J. J. Kirby, general passenger agent: J. Goldaum, auditor: K. A. Gohring, superintendent and Assistant Master Mechanic Frelick, who acted as engineer. The normal crew of the car will include a conductor and baggageman besides the engineer.

This car is the first of five received by the Ann Arbor. They will be run all local trains, making all small towns and road crossing stops and thus permitting the steam passenger trains to become limited trains. No. 1, will run between Ann Arbor and Toledo regularly, beginning next week. The other four cars, which will arrive at intervals of two weeks, will cover the remainder of the lines. When No. 2 arrives, about two hence, it will be put in service between Ann Arbor and Owosso. No. 3 will run between Owosso and Mt. Pleasant, No. 4 between Mt. Pleasant and Cadillac, and No. 5, between Cadillac and Frankfort. It is believed two round trips will be possible every 24 hours.

The fare on these cars will be the regular two cents a mile, as on steam roads, with the provision granted by the legislature, that the minimum single fare will be five cents. The company will cater to the rural travel, making an average of three or four crossroad stops between present stations. The electricity in the car is generated, by a gasoline engine and the motor is of 200 horsepower. The vehicle is capable of 70 miles and hour, but the normal will be about 40 miles.

The car is of steel, beautifully appointed and finished in mahogany. It has passenger, smoking, and baggage compartments, is 74 feet long and seats 84 passengers. The seats are upholstered in leather and every modern convenience is afforded. It runs more smoothly than the ordinary interurban car and is easily handled.

The exterior of the vehicle is of a red-brown color. It appearance suggests at once, comfort and great speed possibilities, and its lines are similar to those of a bullet. The car is built a little lower than the regular passenger car. The wheels seem larger than the common car wheels. The power generating apparatus is in a compartment about six feet long, at the forward end. The vehicle is equipped with a whistle that is keyed up considerably higher than that of the ordinary passenger engine and has less force. There is also a signal bell which clanged merrily as it pulled into town last night.

The car was bought from Nebraska by Engineer George Crocker of Ann Arbor who accompanied it on its maiden trip. Crocker has been on the Ann Arbor for 25 years, but has never been over the north end of the line.

No. 1 left Owosso this morning at about 7:30 to complete its exhibition trip to Toledo.¹²

ANN ARBOR MOTOR CAR HERE TODAY
FIRST OF NEW PASSENGER CARS SEEN ON ANN ARBOR TRACKS
CAME HERE FROM OWOSSO
THE NEW SERVICE WILL PROBABLY BE STARTED MIDDLE OF MONTH

The first of the new gasoline motor cars that have been ordered by the Ann Arbor railroad for local service between Toledo and Frankfort, reached this city at noon today.

About 200 people inspected it during the hour it remained in the city and General Passenger Agent Kirby, who was one of the party on the trip from Omaha, estimated that from the time the car left Frankfort until it reached this 100,000 people had gone through it. The car was originally scheduled to arrive here at 10 o'clock, but from Owosso down, as elsewhere on the trip, no effort was made to make time. Crowds greeted the car at every station and stops averaged from fifteen minutes to an hour. At Cadillac 5,000 people turned out, and big crowds greeted it all along the line. The car left Frankfort yesterday morning and laid over at Owosso last night. It left Owosso at 8:20 this morning, an hour and twenty minutes later than had been expected, and took the switch at Durand to allow the regular southbound train pass it. The car left Whitmore Lake at 12:38 and reached this city at 12:40. It was run on a switch north of the station between Ashley and West Liberty streets and allowed to remain there until nearly 2 o'clock when the trip to Toledo was resumed.

"We do not want to disappoint the people," said General Passenger Agent Kirby, when asked how soon the car would go on regular schedule, "but we'll try to have it running regularly by the 14th or 15th." We can hardly attempt to run it regularly until another car arrives. The other four will came a week apart. I don't know exactly what the schedule will be. We haven't any schedule worked out yet. Or rather, we have a dozen on paper I don't which one will be adopted. But we'll try to put the car on schedule by Sunday a week. This car will run from Toledo to Whitmore Lake, two trips a day virtually giving Whitmore Lake eight cars a day. The other three cars will run from Owosso to Mt. Pleasant from Mt. Pleasant to Cadillac and from Cadillac to Frankfort. The car rides like a Pullman. We made 70 miles and hour over the other side of the lake coming up, and on our own line up here ran at a mile a minute some places. The car is all steel and so long between trucks that it rode really easier than passenger coach in a train."

The assiant on the trip was George Crocker of this city formerly engineer of the morning accommodation between Ann Arbor and Toledo, who will handle the car after it is put on a regular run. The officials of the road who made the trip from Omaha were W. D. Holliday assistant to President Ramsey, J. J. Kirby, general passenger agent, and J. Golduam, company auditor. Assistant Engineer J. P. Ramsay, son of the president, joined the party at Owosso and accompanied them to Toledo.

On the regular the crew will consist of the engineer, and assistant and the conductor. The run to Toledo will made in about hours.¹³

GASOLINE CAR IS VIEWED
Hundreds Inspects New Motor on Way Here.

The new McKeen gasoline motor car of the Ann Arbor railroad, which left Frankfort, Mich., Friday morning on her trial spin to Toledo, reached Owosso at 3:30 in the evening. Attracted by the novelty, hundreds flocked to the stations along the road, and all were given an opportunity to see the interior of the new car.

Bearing Ann Arbor officials, the car left Owosso early Saturday and was expected to reach Toledo about 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon.¹⁴

GASOLINE CARS ARE WELL MADE
NEW MOTOR EQUIPMENT OF A. A. ROAD BETTER THAN PASSENGER COACHES.

The new gasoline motor cars ordered by the Ann Arbor railroad for local service are far in advance of the ordinary passenger coach.

In the first place they are larger and are constructed of maroon-colored steel. The front tapers like a wind splitter and the back is rounded like the stern of a boat. Passengers enter through a vestibule at the middle of the car. Toward the rear is the ladies' compartment seating about 60. The seats all thought the car are longer than in an ordinary passenger coach and will hold three persons each. In front of the smoking compartment is a small baggage room and in front of that the engine room and cab. The huge cylinders of the 200 horse power engine extend up through the floor across the entire width of the car. The engineer sits at the right as in an ordinary cab and in front of the engine with the transmission control and air brake levers at his left hand. Compressed air operates the transmission mechanism.

When making ordinary stops the gears will simply be thrown out and the engine allowed to run. The car is heated by the exhaust and lighted with acetylene gas. The cars weight 68,000 pounds each are geared to make about mile a minute. They will each accommodate 85 passengers.¹⁵

WELL PLEASED
Were the People of Howell With the First Gasoline Car

The people of Howell, five or six hundred strong, turned out Saturday morning to see the first gasoline car on the Ann Arbor railroad. The car was the first one to be finished and was delivered to the company at Menominee and came across the lake and was on its trip to Toledo. The car is a beauty, painted red, all steel construction and similar to a street car only more classy. Mr. Kirby said it $26,000 and was the best that money could buy.

The station agent notified the newspaper offices and others as to the time the cart was expected here and the people on the street turned out enmass to greet the enterprise on the part of the Ann Arbor railroad. There was no politics, religion, or business in the gathering. It was simply a hearty welcome to the new departure to run interurban cars on a steam road.

The car developed a speed of 70 miles on its way down just to see what it could do. Mr. Kirby said the cars would stop at frequent crossroads and could not make fast time as the runs would be so short. The car he said stopped quick and picked up quick. The cars are expected in the near future when a regular schedule will be put in commission.¹⁶

INTERURBAN CAR
First One Through Here Last Friday

The report that the first gasoline car over the Ann Arbor would pass through here Friday afternoon called out a crowd of nearly a hundred, who waited patiently at the depot to see the wonderful car and observe with their own eyes its operation. Just before 5 o'clock its shrill whistle was heard coming from the north, having come from the factory across the lake and was headed for Toledo on its own track and by its own power. At the depot it stopped for inspection, and everybody went through and around it and studied its working and discussed it possibilities.

The car is entirely of steel, 70 feet long, wider than a common coach and cigar-shaped, having a sharp point at the front to avoid as much as possible air resistance. The entrance is in the middle of the car where steps come close to the ground and it is much easier to enter than a regular coach. At the rear of the entrance is the regular passenger compartment, and forward is the "smoker." In the front end is the gasoline engine of 200 horse power is located, connected by chain to the forward axle by a friction clutch. The end of the car is nearly all glass, giving the engineer or motorman an excellent view of the track ahead.

The engine runs quietly, and when the car started it did so smoothly and quickly, demonstrating the practicability of the machine. As soon as the three other cars arrive we understand they will begin making regular trips.

Officers of the road who made the initial trip were W. D. Holliday, assistant to the president; J. J. Kirby, general passenger agent; J. Goldman, auditor; K. A. Gohring, superintendent, and Assistant Master Mechanic Frelick, who acted as engineer. The normal crew of the car will include a conductor and baggageman besides the engineer.

This is the first of five to be received. The first will run regularly between Toledo and Ann Arbor, beginning next week. The second will run between Ann Arbor and Owosso and the third between Mt. Pleasant, and the fourth between Mt. Pleasant and Cadillac, and the fifth between Cadillac and Frankfort. All will be in service in a few weeks.

The fare on these cars will be the regular two cents a mile, as on steam roads, with the provision, granted by the last legislature, that the minimum single fare will five cents. The company will cater to the rural travel, making an average of three cross roads stops between its present stations.¹⁷

Motor car service begin on

NEW TRAIN SERVICE
Eighteen Passenger Trains a Day Through Alma
ADDITIONAL MOTOR SERVICE
The Ann Arbor Puts on Two Night Trains and an additional Motor Car

Do you want to get out of the city? Walk over to the Union Station and in few minutes there will be a train for you. Eighteen trains a day out of the city, and it might be added, eighteen into it as well is the passenger service now given Alma by the Ann Arbor and Pere Marquette railroads. Since last Sunday the Ann Arbor has sent four regular trains north each day, four south, while the Pere Marquette has sent three trains east and tree west, making a total of eighteen passenger trains a day besides numerous excursions.

The motor cars put on recently by the Ann Arbor have proved themselves a paying proposition. They have been patronized very liberally since their first run, each car being crowd as a general thing; Their fast time, cleanliness, frequent stops and general comfort are evidently much appreciated. In addition to the motor cars, the Ann Arbor has put on two midnight fast trains, one from Toledo to Frankfort, the other from Frankfort to Toledo. These trains are run for the benefit of tourists to the northern part of the state. Sleepers will be carried and the trains will pass each other here.

The revised schedule for the north and south bound Ann Arbor trains is as follows:

North bound trains: 7:38 a. m., 12:39 p. m., 8:32 p. m., and 1:58 a. m.

North bound motor cars: 9:54 a. m. and 4:26 p. m.

South bound trains: 7:38 a. m., 3:34 p. m., 9:00 p. m., and 1:58 a. m.

South bound motor cars: 11:25 a. m. and 6:28 p. m.

Alma is fortunate in its railroad facilities. Ever since the Ann Arbor swung it tracks into Alma, the biggest little city in the heart of Michigan has had extraordinary railroad service, and the putting on of the flyers some months ago by the Pere Marquette and this latest addition to the schedule by the Ann Arbor gives Alma no peer among the surrounding duties for efficient service. The freight service is likewise of the best. Points all over Michigan and the principal centers all over the country can be reached from Alma upon short notice.¹⁸

GASOLINE CAR NO. 2 REACHES OWOSSO
Will Not Be Put in Service Until June 27 on Ann Arbor.

The second gasoline car of the Ann Arbor Railroad company reached here yesterday from Omaha, Neb., in charge of Engineer Seymour Corey. It was in the yards last night, and this morning several officials took it out on a trial trip. It will be kept in Owosso until June 27, when it will be put in service, probably between Owosso and Ann Arbor, although it is possible that it will go clear through to Toledo.

The schedule for the will be made out tomorrow and it is planned to make two round trips each day between Owosso and Ann Arbor. Car No. 1 which was put in service about two weeks ago, now makes two round trips daily between Ann Arbor and Toledo and the service is making a big hit, the car being full about every trip. Thirty-nine stops are made between the two towns.

Engineer John Connors and wife will leave tonight for Omaha to bring back the third car.¹⁹

SCHEDULE IS GIVEN
For the Ann Arbor Railroad Company's Two New Gasoline Cars
TWO CARS EACH WAY EVERY DAY
Owosso Service Will Be Greatly Improved
New Schedule Becomes Effective Tomorrow

Ann Arbor officials this morning announced the schedule for the two gasoline cars one of which has been running between Ann Arbor and Toledo for two weeks, and the other of which will be put in service tomorrow morning. Contrary to the general opinion, both cars will run between Owosso and Toledo instead of one taking half the territory between the two cities. The schedule gives Owosso two cars every 24 hours each way, and becomes effective at 12:01 a. m. Sunday.

One of the cars ties up at Ann Arbor each night and one at Howell. The one Howell leaves there at 6:30 in the morning, going south to Toledo. It reaches there at 10 o'clock and starts back at 10:45, reaching Owosso at 3:40 p. m. It lays over here until 4:30 and then goes back to Howell, arriving there at 6 p. m. where it stays the rest of the night. The other car, which ties up at Ann Arbor at night, leaves there at 7:10 a. m. northbound, and reaches here at 10:15. It lays over here until 11:15 when it starts for Toledo, arriving there at 4:15 p. m. It lays over there 45 minutes, then starts back and reaches Ann Arbor at 7 o'clock and ties up for the night.

Engineer Seymour Corey and Conductor William Conroy of this city will have charge of one car, and Engineer George Cricker and Conductor P. J. Harrison also of Owosso will have charge of the other. The schedule completed yesterday by Supt. K. A. Gohring, and W. D. Holliday, assistant to the president, will be in effect, it is probable, only until the third car reaches here when it will be charged. The schedule for the entire five not be completed until all of them are ready to be put into operation.

It will be seen that the service from Owosso will be improved greatly by the cars. At present there is no train south from 9 o'clock in the morning until five in the afternoon, but now a car is scheduled to go south at 11:15. Again, at present there is no train from the south now between 11:18 in the morning and 6:40 at night. One of the cars will arrive here at 3:40. The afternoon car south, leaves here only a half hour ahead of the southbound passenger train, and the morning car from the south gets here about an hour before the morning passenger train.²⁰

MORE NEW TRAINS
Ann Arbor Has Given Owosso More Trains and Better Service
Night Train On From Toledo and Additional Motor Cars
Change in Running Time.

A new time table, which took effect yesterday morning, has been issued by the Ann Arbor road. It effects the running time of every passenger train and motor car in service in the service and adds one train each way, giving Owosso three trains each way, besides four motor cars each way every day. The numbers of the passenger trains have also been changed, a prefix of five being placed before the number of each train. Now instead of the numbers being 1, 2, 3, etc., as they have been for years, they will 51, 52, 53, etc. The motor cars are to be numbered 1, 2, 3, etc. up to 16.

Here after the southbound trains leave Owosso at 9:05 a. m., 5 p. m. and 3:20 a. m while the northbound trains leave at 6:20 a. m., 11:05 a. m. and 7:05 p. m. A train which reaches here from Toledo at 12:00 a. m. remains here the rest of the night.

An increase in the motor car service is called for the time table. At present one car is running between Owosso and Mt. Pleasant, but another one will be added as soon as it gets here from Omaha, and two them will be operated between Owosso and Cadillac. Their running time will be. No. 7 leave Owosso at 8:10 a. m. runs to Cadillac, reaching there at 1:15 p. m. Starts back as No. 10 at 3:15, reaching here at 8:15 p. m. No. 8 will leave Cadillac at 8 a. m., and come south, reaching Owosso at 1:15 p. m. At 2:50 p. m. it starts back to Cadillac as No. 9, and reaches there at 7:50 p. m. where it ties up for the night.

The time table also calls for motor car service between Cadillac and Frankfort, which will be added as soon as the cars come. According to the time six cars in all will in service then. The motor cars on the south end leave here at 11:05 a. m. and 3:30 p. m. and arrive from south at 10:15 a. m. and 2:45 p. m.²¹

To reduce the expense in operation of Motor Cars, it was decided to equip them with kerosene burning carburetors which were applied to one car and tested for several months, resulting in a reduction of fuel cost nearly 100 per cent. It is expected to equip the other motor cars during 1918.²²

In Timetable No. 67, date Sunday, July 5, 1914, no motor cars were run between Cadillac and Frankfort. Two round trips were run between Owosso and Cadillac, also between Toledo and Owosso - with terminal points being Ann Arbor and Howell.

Motor car service Cadillac to Frankfort not listed Sept. 12, 1915, times have shifted for motor car service but coverage and terminals remain same, steam trains No. 55 and 56 covering Cadillac to Frankfort.

1920 a new motor station 'Normal' cost $280.72, also a new motor station at 'Pennocks' cost $357.47.²³

Wednesday, Dec. 31, 1924, motor car service was ended.²⁴ Motor Car service was completely abandoned by the Ann Arbor railroad the first of this year with taking off of the car from Owosso to Cadillac, thus completing the gradual curtailment which started about four years ago when motor bus transportation began to cut in with its competition. In 1917, these motor cars, representing an investment of $125,000, handled 353,000 passengers, simmering down to 30,000 passengers in 1923.

From a schedule of two round trips daily from Owosso to Cadillac, one from Owosso to Ann Arbor and two from Ann Arbor to Toledo, the service was regularly and gradually. First one trip was canceled between here and Cadillac, then one from Toledo to Ann Arbor, then a second from Ann Arbor to Toledo, and finally the last car has been taken from service between Owosso and Cadillac.²⁵

In the 1925 Ann Arbor railroad annual report, it was reported than the increased use of automobiles and "jitneys" in the territory served by the railroad has had a marked effect on its passenger service income.

Dec. 31, 1928, 4 motor cars on rooster.²⁶

Dec. 31, 1929, 0 motor cars on rooster.²⁷