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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.
The Ramona Branch was a railroad branch line in Kent County, Michigan.First placed in service in August, 1888, [1] it ran 2.53 miles (4.07 km) [2] starting from its connection at its western end with the Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad (Currently CSX) at Oakdale Park Station in southeast Grand Rapids, Michigan near present day Eastern Avenue railroad crossing on the CSX Grand Rapids ...
Memphis, Dallas and Gulf Railroad (formerly Memphis, Paris and Gulf Railroad) - under the latter name graded 2 miles of line near Little Rock 1907, [325] but then re-organised and consolidated several lumber railroads in 1910 with the intention of forming a bridge route by building from Memphis to Murfreesboro and from the Chicago, Rock Island ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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".
Along with the rail lines, the railroad constructed this depot in Saline. The Detroit, Hillsdale and Indiana Railroad went bankrupt in 1875 (likely a planned maneuver), and was sold to the Detroit, Hillsdale, and South Western Railroad, which in 1881 leased the line in perpetuity to the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway. When the rail ...