Formerly Facebook home of the Port Huron and Detroit Railroad Historical Society, this page is now a repository of information about the PH&D, and occasional announcements of new information available on the PH&D Digital Modeler's Guide website. The purposes of The Port Huron & Detroit Railroad Historical Society were:
- To collect, archive, preserve, and present, all for the education of the com
munity, historical documents, photographs, drawings, artifacts and equipment relating to The Port Huron & Detroit Railroad Company and its predecessors: The Port Huron Southern Railway and The Detroit Bay City & Western Railroad, as well as the Grand Trunk Western/Canadian National, and the Pere Marquette/Chesapeake and Ohio Railroads.
- To obtain, restore and maintain the roundhouse at 32nd Street for use as a museum, as well as other structures, artifacts, and rolling stock, as they may become available;
- To accumulate, conserve, and index all data relating to the above-named railroads for the use of scholars, rail fans and scale modelers. This historical society had a collection of railroad related artifacts from the Port Huron and Detroit Railroad and the surrounding railroads of Port Huron and Michigan's Thumb region. The organization has been closed permanently due to multiple issues from 2020's covid pandemic, internal & external attacks by selfish individuals & past operational decisions which made future operations not feasible. The collections were donated to other area museums & nonprofits. Some were also sold to private persons or returned to donors. Financials were donated to non-profit organizations around Southeast Michigan & the Thumb. A Tunnel City Railway and Transportation Heritage Fund has been set up through the Community Foundation of St. The GTW re**er will go to Durand, MI with the National Railroader's Memorial, Inc. It's unfortunate operations had to be down. Assistance & a new board of directors was asked for but never materialized & it was forced to close. Thanks to anyone who helped over the years.
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Due to the historical Port Huron & Detroit Railroad content posted to this page, it will continue to be maintained and posted to until it is no longer feasible to do so. The page is no longer associated or affiliated with any of the groups organized to preserve the legacy of the Port Huron & Detroit Railroad, or the Tunnel City Railway Heritage Center. Following the decision to shut down the PH&D RRHS, permission was granted by the Society's board to a trusted Society member to digitize as much of the paper collection as possible in 2022, including blueprints, historical documents and operational documents from the PH&D Railroad that had been stored in the Society's vault prior to the sale of the PH&D Office building in 2022. As of the end of 2022, the digital collection exceeds 50 gigabytes. As the digitization progressed, the individual recognized how little of the information contained in the Society's vaults had been made available to its members during the years those documents were in the Society's possession. As time and resources permit, some of the documents discovered have been posted on a new website, which was established with making information for modeling the PH&D available to model railroaders: https://www.phdrailroad.us. Because time and resources have not permitted that site to be finished yet, no actual modeling information has been posted there. As time and resources permit, more information and documents will be posted to that website, especially as the digitization aspect of the project winds down. In the meantime, rather than create a new page from scratch for those interested in what was found in the Vault and those modeling the PH&D and its successor railroads, the decision was made to take over this page once the Society was fully dissolved, to share items others might find interesting from the Port Huron & Detroit Railroad and to share information relevant to those trying to model the PH&D.
