trade in the 1800s in detroit, -- a city we know now is the motor city, was cigar capital of america. we were not only transporting in raw material, but out finish material. there were days in the 1860's we knew had 7000-10,000 railroad cars waiting to be transported that could knock it across the river because they would come into detroit via train, and wait for fairies to take them to canada. that backlog made the conversation about a tunnel or bridge take the national forefront by 1870. something had to be done because we had storehouses filling up, waiting for this transportation that was very slow because fairies can only transport 50-75 cars at a time. not quick enough to catch up with how much a train was able to bring in. boomtownt grosses a following the civil war, we needed an infrastructure that could supply taking from canada and getting over to detroit. that means building both the tunnel, and leader the bridge. we have two tunnels under the detroit river. one is for train transport, completed in 1910. it took four years to build a cost of eight $5 million. in 1930, novem