CSPAN3 Detroit Border Crossing July 14, 2024
Trade a year for both countries. 150,000 jobs rely on this network of transportation and international trade. Tremendously important part of our history and has been since precivil war. During prohibition detroit is responsible for ringing in 75 of illegal alcohol brought into ofs country with a 14 years prohibition. That comes from our neighbors to the south and windsor, canada. The city we now think of as the motor city was cigar capital of america. We were not only transporting in Raw Materials but out the finished. There were days in the 1860s where you had 7000 to 10,000 Railroad Cars wai...