car and meal services between Detroit and Alpena in the 1930s. Continuing coaches were carried over Michigan Central Railroad tracks from Detroit to Bay City. Separate motor coach trains operating daily except Sunday carried passengers from Alpena to the northern extent of D&M territory, Cheboygan. By the 1940s, meal services had disappeared. By 1949, service was reduced to a morning trip from Bay City to Alpena and a reverse trip in the evening. Sleeping cars were eliminated. And service from Alpena to Cheboygan was discontinued as well. Passenger service had been eliminated by 1951. Named train passenger service in the mid-1930s consisted of: Resorter (#1), sleeping car, Detroit to Alpena; coach, Bay City to Alpena (coach passengers would take a Michigan Central train from Detroit to Bay City) Clipper (#3), coach via Michigan Central, Detroit to Bay City; motor coach train from Bay City to Alpena New Yorker (#4), motor coach train from Alpena to Bay City; coach via Michigan Central, Bay City to Detroit Sunset (#12), sleeping car, Alpena to Detroit; coach, Alpena to Bay City (coach passengers would take a Michigan Central train from Bay City to Detroit) Legacy The Lake State Railway continued as of 2012 to use traditional handheld technology (picks, shovels, hammers) to replace railroad ties and make other roadbed repairs on surviving trackage that had previously been part of the Detroit and Mackinac system. A collection of D&M artifacts, including a 1920s switching engine, are housed at the depot in Lincoln, Michigan. The stone depot in Standish, Michigan is also a museum, with rolling stock. The railroad's GE 44-ton locomotive, #10, has been preserved by the Southern Michigan Railroad Society. 0-6-0 Locomotive #8 (Baldwin Locomotive Works #41228) is preserved and awaiting restoration in storage at The Henry Ford (Greenfield Village) in Dearborn, Michigan. See also Harrisville, Michigan – stone depot Lincoln, Michigan – wooden depot museum, with rolling stock–switch engine and caboose Standish, Michigan – stone depot museum, with rolling stock Southern Michigan Railroad Society Aloha State Park: A park created by the railroad. References Further reading Wakeman, George L., My Story of the Detroit & Mackinac Railroad Library of Michigan, Lansing, 1940. External links Detroit and Mackinac Railway Historical Society home page Detroit and Mackinac Railway System Map. Detroit and Mackinac Railway Time Table Detroit and Mackinac Railway, Photographic roster Defunct companies based in Michigan Defunct Michigan railroads Former Class I railroads in