This vintage image shows Car No. 3 of the Pontiac & Sylvan Lake Ry. Co. — a small interurban line that helped carry Oakland County riders from Pontiac to the lake long before weekend traffic jams.
A City of Sylvan Lake history page says service on the Pontiac-to-Sylvan Lake interurban began Oct. 1, 1895, and that the line’s popularity peaked in 1912 — including a July trip that reportedly carried 200 people to the beach.
By the early 1900s, the Pontiac & Sylvan Lake line was folded into a bigger network (Detroit & Northwestern, then Detroit United Railway).
What do you remember or know about the old interurban along Garland Avenue?
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