Kalamazoo, Lake Shore and Chicago Railway

found: Jeanette Stiever collection, 1906 :prospectus (Kalamazoo, Lake Shore and Chicago Traction Company)

found: Fruit belt line: Southwest Michigan's failed railroad, in Michigan Historical Review 31.2 (Fall 2005):(Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & Chicago Railway (KLS&C), affectionately known as the Fruit Belt Line ... incorporated first April 12 1905 as The Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & Chicago Traction Company ... reincorporated June 4, 1906 as the Kalamazoo, Lake Shore and Chicago Railway (KLS&C) ; railroad suffered many financial difficulties, eventually a petition for receivership was filed August 7, 1923, and the railroad was approved for abandonment by the Interstate Commerce Commission on June 5, 1924)