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Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Society AFE Accounts Ann Arbor Railroad AFE Year 1924
AFE AFE Description Cost Date
124 Equipping 150 steel Gondolas with steel yokes and striking plates 4,639.37
203 Equipping 100 box cars with steel center sills 923.97
342 Heavy repairs to 74 wooden Gondolas 694.48
405 Equipping 44 locomotives with electric headlights 1,339.25
501 Converting one 60M capacity bad order box car into bunk car 384.00
521 Safety appliances to 300 box cars in 6000 series 1,698.45
522 Equipping 182 steel Gondolas with steel yokes and striking plates 2,913.68
571 Replacement of car #10022 741.30
974 Application of economy draft arms to 30 wooden Fondolas in 2000 series 491.52
1101 Application of U. S. safety appliance (including yokes and striking plates) to 10 Gondolas, 7000 series 209.90
1177 Economy draft arms to 10 wooden Fondolas 2000 series 420.61
1196 U. S. Safety appliances to 20 box cars in 6000 series 809.79
1202 Applying automatic drips to baggage cars 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103 and 104 264.86
1207 Applying 80M capacity trucks to baggage cars 100, 101, 102 and 103 295.78
1210 U. S. Safety appliances to 20 cars in 6000 series 315.40
1451 Writing into freight equipment box car 3720 840.00
1488 Building crew's quarters below deck and preparing quarters on upper deck of boat #6 for passengers 395.30
1512 Retirement of cabooses No. 20 and 24 247.40
1538 Building and installing two fresh water tanks on boat #4 329.42
1579 Building derrick idler S-66 from Soo Line car 34618 252.25
1580 Economy draft arms to 11 stock cars, 700 series 362.98
1673 Applying type "A" superheater to engine #153 321.54
1688 Replacing equipment on steamer #4 1,200.00
1705 Building 8 new cabooses 8,819.22
1706 Building 2 boat coaling cars, S-11 and S-15 1,989.29
1719 Applying steel wheels in place of cast wheels under tenders of 28 locomotives 423.97
1720 Building one new snow plow, S-96 891.23
1726 Reinforcing plates to 20 cars in 7000 series 723.56
1730 Applying cover plates to center sills of 10 cars in 10000 and 11000 series 235.66
1733 Building three locomotive snow plows 644.60
1736 Rebuilding combination mail and smoking car #205 11,983.15
1754 Rebuilding stock car #727 762.00
1760 Rebuilding engine #105 14,130.47
1761 Rebuilding ten stock cars 201.40
1763 Rebuilding box car #11172 962.63
1775 Retirement of 26 cars in 2001 to 2200 series 236.36
1777 Retirement of box cars 3694 and 3733 2,155.98
1781 Retirement of 14 box cars in 4704 to 5104 419.63
1784 Proportion of cost of installing new switch board in Grand Trunk Station, Durand 538.94
1785 String one #8 galvanized telegraph wire to replace iron wire, Ann Arbor and Alexis 414.43
1786 Purchase of 250 box cars and 250 automobile cars 1,103,311.00
1788 Relaying track #19 with 70 lb rail, releasing 50 lb worn-out rail, Manhattan 245.98
1789 Building new electrican's shop and store room, Owosso 1,701.42
1790 Retirement of caboose #23 267.00
1791 1791 Rebuilding box car #12101 1,814.33
1792 Retirement of Gondola #7419 1,050.37
1793 Rebuilding Gondola #7419 1,011.54
1794 Retirment of steamer #4 209,294.10
1795 Rebuilding of Steamer #4 463,469.00
1796 Building foundation and installing ash gun pumps, Boat No. 6 2,320.20
1797 Retirement of baggage car #102 1,418.05
1798 Building one tool car for Owosso wrecking outfit from old baggage car #102 2,113.98
1799 Rebuilding Gondonolas 2064, 2126, 2139 and 2197 2,026.17
1800 Retirement of 50 box cars, series 4000 to 4703 23,331.70
1802 Installation of 8,000 ft. of 72 lb. rail and angle bars to replace 60 lb. rail and anglee bars 908.61
1803 Applying 70 lb and 85 lb tie plates, Ithaca, Farwell and Cadillac 6,798.64
1804 Applying 70 lb. and 85 lb tie plates, Ann Arbor and Owosso 754.73
1805 Applying 70 lb. and 85 lb. tie plates, Boon to Frankfort 4,970.80
1806 Proportion of cost of extending and connecting culvert with the D. G. H. & M. Ry. At Durand, Mich. 472.71
1816 Relaying track #16 with 70 lb. rail, releasing 60 lb. worn-out rail, Frankfort Yard 371.90
1817 Relaying leads of tracks 1-3-4-5-7 with 70 lb. rail, releasing 50 lb. rail, Toledo 264.45
1819 Building one standard tool house, Cadillac 386.67
1824 Driving new well and equipping same with pump, Urania 648.00
1838 Build 5280 sq, ft. cemet platform with 336 ft. curb and baggage or ewpress room, Frankfort 3,761.95
1841 Purchase of strip of land from center of Ottawa River to Cherry St. Main, Toledo 1,650.00
1842 Concrete abutments and girder at Maple River, Bannister 10,978.12
1849 Build new 70 lb. No. 10 turnout from passing track for A. L. Nisbet & Company, Whitmore Lake 601.82
1854 Build on brick freight house, Cadillac, and retire old freight house 22,271.09
1855 Build one new crib, Manistique 13,348.01
1861 Pavement, strom sewer and curb acessment for year 1924 on improvements made on Corunna Ave., Owosso 274.11
1863 Relaying main line with 85 lb. steel rail pole 229-233 and mile pole 265-269 624.00
1864 Relaying leads to boat landing with 85 lb. rail, releasing 70 70 rail, Frankfort Yard 825.64
1865 Relaying main line with 85 lb. New steel rail, releasing 70 lb. rail, mile pole 108 1/2 - 112 and 114 1/2 - 118 10,495.24
1866 Relaying main line with 85 lb. steel raill, mile pole 201 - 202 1/2 and 212 - 212 3/4 40,590.37
1872 Building 2 new 85 lb. turnouts to connect with Grand Trunk R. R. interchange track, Durand 1,974.94
1873 Retirement of passenger and freight station and section foreman's dwelling, Park Lake 1,572.07
1874 Building non-agency station, Park Lake 673.81
1875 Applying Henggi rail anchers to tracks, Cadillac to Beulah 1,167.16
1877 Purchase on one bin type 80 ton capacity coal dock, Lake George 2,315.00
1882 Install new and heavier center and turntable and building contete foundounation to replace timber foundation, Frankfort, Mich. 1,374.46
1883 Retire Cadillac Machine Co. Spur #7, Cadillac 440.72
1884 Building 2 freight house tracks, Cadillac 4,487.83
1886 Purchase and erect one steel yard office building, Owosso 66.62
1888 One 100,000 gallon water tank, Owosso 5,475.02
1891 New water tank, Bannister 7,143.01
1895 Retirement of water facilities, Bannister 5,033.43
1896 One heavy duty type electric turntable tractor, etc. and retirement of one motor tracto, Owosso 2,037.72
1897 Retirement of one water tank, Owosso 2,417.96
1900 Install seven motors in shops and one transformer to replace Corliss steam engine, owosso 1,967.11
1902 Building connecting track from end of track #7 to track owned by Owosso Gas & Oil Company 535.34
1905 Relaying King's passing track with 70 lb. rail, releasing 60 lb. rail north of Owosso 387.26
1906 Building 54 ft. of double [ile protection slip at Menominee 1,215.24
1907 Widening cut to better snow conditions and improve road, mile pole 214-216 2,093.90
1909 Reirement of Passenger and freight station, Temple 1,592.49
1910 Building standard non-agenency station, Temple 689.95
1911 Placing station building at Lake Heorge and repairs same 1,974.36
1912 Retirement of Holding track, mile post #10 535.97
1913 Building standard snow fence, Mile pole 228-268 5,255.13
1917 One #10 turnounout from main line to Dow Chemical Co. track, mile pole 155 669.90
1918 One #10 turnounout from main to Dow Chemical Co. track, mile pole 165 1/2 664.97
1920 Building new coal dock 600 ft. long, Cadillac Yard 926.81
1921 Retirement of 600 ft. of #7 track, Cadillac Yard 1,404.31
1929 Proportion of cost of constructing over-head bridge near Ypsilanti Juction 7,000.00
1930 Second assessment on drain #418, Alma 592.70
1935 Retirement of strip of land Toledo, sold to Pere Marquette Railway 597.50

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