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The Rogers City Branch was a railway line in Presque Isle County, Michigan. It ran north from a junction with the Detroit and Mackinac Railway main line near Posen, Michigan, to Rogers City, Michigan, on the shore of Lake Huron. The Detroit and Mackinac opened the line in 1911, and it was abandoned by the Lake State Railway in 2000.
Harger Line Rail-Trail 10.1 16.3 Saginaw, Tuscola: Michigan Central Railroad [74] Harbor Beach Bike-Pedestrian Path 1 1.6 Huron: Pere Marquette Railway [75] Linear Park Pathway 2.3 3.7 Lapeer: Michigan Central Railroad [76] Pere Marquette Rail Trail: 30 48 Clare, Isabella, Midland: Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad [77] [78] Portland Riverwalk ...
At a length of 4 miles (6.4 km), it was the shortest operating common carrier railroad in the state. [1] Later (from 1902 until January 15, 1982), the Ludington & Northern Railway Company , at 2.79 miles (4.49 km), stripped the Paw Paw of its title as "shortest Michigan Railroad".
Michigan Air-Line Railway; Michigan and Canada Bridge and Tunnel Company; Michigan Central Bridge Company; Michigan Central Railroad; Michigan Interstate Railway; Michigan Lake Shore Railroad; Michigan Northern Railway; Michigan and Ohio Railroad; Michigan Southern Railroad (1846–55) Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad; Michigan ...
On March 21, 1837, the Legislature authorized Governor Mason to contract a loan for the construction of the canal from Mt. Clemens to Rochester, a railroad from Shelby to Detroit, a railroad from Detroit across the State (the Michigan Central) and a railroad from Port Huron into the interior, to be known as the Port Huron & Grand River road.
The original Ann Arbor Railroad went bankrupt in 1976, and ownership of the line is now split between the state of Michigan and two short-line railroads: the Ann Arbor Railroad (founded in 1988) and the Huron and Eastern Railway. The northern end of the line is now near Yuma, Michigan.
By the beginning of the 20th century Michigan's railroad network covered much of the central and southern Lower Peninsula. The decades after the Civil War witnessed a massive expansion of Michigan's railroad network: in 1865 the state possessed roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of track; by 1890 it had 9,000 miles (14,000 km). These new lines were ...
The Kalamazoo and South Haven Railroad is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company incorporated on April 2, 1869 with the intention of constructing a 40-mile (64 km) line from Kalamazoo to South Haven , on the shores of Lake Michigan .