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Posted by Trail Nut
on 11/6/2009, 3:39 pm
76.235.161.249
Greenville Independent newspaper
Jan. 13, 1915
TS&M Train Service
A petition is being circulated addressed to the Grand Trunk railroad officials, protesting againest the discontinuance of the motor car service on the TS&M railroad. These trains have been a great convenience to the people in the eastern part of the county, where they have been able to come to Greenville or go to Grand Rapids and return the same day. This road has been famous for its changes in time tables. Large petitions freely signed, have been sent to the general superintendent.
March 17, 1915
TS&M Railroad Puts Up Bluff
The Grand Trunk Railroad Company are making a big bluff that in case the legisiature fails to grant the railroads an increase in the passenger rates they will discontinue all service on the Toledo Saginaw & Muskegon railroad. No one believes they will do any such thing and further than that, no one believes the railroad commision would permit them to do any such thing. Further than this, threatening is no way to accomplish an end. Railrods like ordinary mortals should remember the old adage, "You can catch more flies with sugar than you can with vinegar", or that the legisiature like individuals, can be coaxed farther than they can be driven. While we are in favor of granting this excuse of a railroad the same rates as we would a good road, we do not feel like being driven in to it. This branch of teh Grand Trunk has always complained that it did not pay, but they never have offered any inducement to ride on thier road or maintained a schedule long enough to have people gey aquainted with it. We are reminded many years ago during the winter the train left Greenville going east about 4 o'clock in the morning and came back about 10 o'clock at night, and old Jack Reed delighted the people by telling them they were going to have a change of time and when asked what the change would be, said "The train will leave a little earlier in the morning and come back a little later at night". This is about the kind of service that the TS&M has always given us, so it matters very little what changes they make.
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