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The Toledo, Saginaw and Muskegon Railway (TS&M) was started by a group of Toledo Ohio investors headed by David Robinson Jr. and John Ashley, who at the time was also building the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railroad, which connected Ashley with Owosso, Michigan. The investors spent about $1,560,000 to build the line.
With insufficient funds on hand to pay the bondholders, the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven and Muskegon filed for bankruptcy protection in July 1926. Cars continued to run on a reduced schedule until April 18, 1928, when the line was officially abandoned, [8] and the passenger services were replaced by Greyhound Lines buses. [12]
Muskegon: Chicago and West Michigan Railroad [45] Fred Meijer Grand River Valley Rail Trail 15.5 24.9 Kent, Ionia: Grand Trunk Western Railroad [46] Fred Meijer Pioneer Trail 5.4 8.7 Kent: Coopersville and Marne Railway [47] Grand River Edges Trail 5.4 8.7 Kent: Pere Marquette Railway [48] Hart–Montague Trail State Park: 22 35 Muskegon, Oceana
The Michigan Lake Shore Railroad (MLS) is a defunct railroad company which operated in the state of Michigan between 1869 and 1878 and was known as the Grand Haven Railroad until 1881. The MLS was formed on October 13, 1869, by the consolidation of the Allegan and Holland Railroad and the Muskegon and Ferrysburg Railroad. The A&H was organized ...
Chicago and Michigan Lake Shore Railroad: Muskegon and Ferrysburg Railroad: PM: 1869 1869 Michigan Lake Shore Railroad: Muskegon, Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad: PRR: 1886 1917 Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad: Muskegon Lake Railroad: PM: 1879 1900 Pere Marquette Railroad: Muskegon River and Rose Lake Railway: 1878 1881 N/A Negaunee and ...
Michigan Air Line Railway; 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 ...
An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways, closed railways, former railway lines, or derelict railway lines. Some have had all their track and sleepers removed, and others have material remaining from their former usage. There are many hundreds of these throughout the ...
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.