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Counties Original railroad References Bay County Riverwalk/Railtrail System 17.8 28.6 Bay: Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Railroad [62] [63] Bay-Zil Trail 5.7 9.2 Bay, Saginaw: Michigan Central Railroad [64] Cass City Walking Trail 1.4 2.3 Tuscola: Pontiac, Oxford & Northern Railroad [65] [66] Fred Meijer Clinton-Ionia-Shiawassee Trail 41.4 66.6
Michigan Central Railroad Standish Depot: February 28, 1991 : 107 N. Main St. Standish: The Michigan Central Railroad Standish Depot is a Richardsonian Romanesque structure built using fieldstones gathered by local farmers. It served as a passenger depot until 1955, and is currently used as a welcome center along US 23.
Local railroads are the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, CSX Transportation, Canadian National Railway, and the Huron and Eastern Railway. Pere Marquette Railway was a railroad that had lines throughout the Thumb; its lines are now either abandoned or in use by CSX, or Huron and Eastern. Major railroad centers are Vassar, Bad Axe and Port Huron.
The Michigan railroad network, c. 1876. Railroads have been vital in the history of the population and trade of rough and finished goods in the state of Michigan.While some coastal settlements had previously existed, the population, commercial, and industrial growth of the state further bloomed with the establishment of the railroad.
West Michigan Railroad: Kalamazoo, Lake Shore and Chicago Railway: KLS 1905 1925 N/A Kalamazoo, Lowell and Northern Michigan Railroad: PM: 1871 1883 Hastings, Lowell and Northern Michigan Railroad: Kalamazoo and Schoolcraft Railroad: NYC: 1866 1869 Kalamazoo and White Pigeon Railroad: Kalamazoo and South Haven Railroad: NYC: 1869 1916 Michigan ...
The Pere Marquette Rail-Trail (PMRT) is a rail trail in Michigan occupying a 28-mile (45 km) abandoned CSX railroad corridor in Midland County and Isabella County that was once part of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad. In 1874, the tracks stretched from Ludington to Flint, transporting supplies to the timber industry in southern Michigan's ...
Chestonia grew up around a depot on the Detroit and Charlevoix Railroad that was founded in 1899. At one point, it boasted a post office, nearly 100 residents, and the junction of the East Jordan and Southern and Detroit and Charlevoix railroads. When the last of the railroad tracks in the town were removed in 1962, the depot and post office ...