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Show Using Detroit River Tunnel. By Associated Press. DETROET, Sept. 17. Tho establishment establish-ment today of a regular froight service ser-vice through the Michigan Central tunnel, tun-nel, under the Detroit rivor, marked the beginning of tho end of tho road's car ferries, one of tho picturesque Detroit De-troit marine features. Yesterday several preliminary round trips wero made through tho tunnel by heavily loaded froight trains drawn by electric locomotives in preparation for today's schedule. Passenger servico under the river will be inaugurated as soon as tho engineers en-gineers become conversant with the handling of the motors on tho tunnel grades. Tho $15,000,000 tunnel work will be augmented by tho complete electrification electrifica-tion of tho Dotroit terminal. |