Editing St. Joseph, Michigan (section)

===Transportation history===
Two major shipping companies operated between St. Joseph and Chicago during the last half of the 19th century, the Goodrich Transportation Company and the local firm of Graham and Morton. They dominated the traffic at St. Joseph for more than 100 years, although other smaller companies did operate during this time.

Starting in 1874, Henry Graham and J. Stanley Morton began operating a steam line out of St. Joseph. Their collaboration would become the Graham and Morton Transportation Company.<ref>{{cite book |title=Graham and Morton Line (from old catalog)|url=https://archive.org/details/grahammortonline00grah |date=1915 |author=Graham & Morton transportation co. |location=Chicago, Illinois, St. Joseph, Mich. |publisher=A. B. Morse company, [[Library of Congress]]
|page=32 |access-date=May 9, 2015}}</ref> Through vigorous competition, they won the war to become the major carrier out of St. Joseph. Goodrich stopped service to the Twin Cities in 1880. The company grew quickly and over the fifty plus years of its existence became the second largest line on Lake Michigan, behind only Goodrich.{{sfn|Hilton|2002}}
 
In 1924, as graded roads began to line the Lake Michigan shoreline, G & M was forced to merge into Goodrich. Like most other ports along Lake Michigan, St. Joseph saw a large drop in traffic during the early years of the twentieth century, which was exacerbated further by the Great Depression. The route between Chicago and St. Joseph survived until the 1950s.{{sfn|Hilton|2002}}
 
On January 29, 1870, the [[Chicago and Michigan Lake Shore Railroad]] extended a rail line from [[New Buffalo, Michigan|New Buffalo]] to St. Joseph. This railroad connected St. Joseph to [[Grand Rapids, Michigan|Grand Rapids]], [[Muskegon, Michigan|Muskegon]], Detroit and Chicago. (Prior to this, the only connection St. Joseph had to these other cities was by water.) The line was reorganized as the [[Chicago and West Michigan Railway]] and then was incorporated into the [[Pere Marquette Railroad]]. Nowadays it is recognized as the CSX Grand Rapids Subdivision which runs from Chicago, IL to Grand Rapids, MI along the former Pere Marquette Railroad. Passenger Rail Service is provided by Amtrak's "Pere Marquette" service running from Chicago, IL to Grand Rapids, MI, with stops in St. Joseph, Bangor, Holland, and Grand Rapids. Service is offered with one daily round trip.