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The Canada Southern Railway incorporated the Chicago and Canada Southern Railway in 1871 to build west from the Detroit River toward Chicago.Construction began in 1872. On July 4, 1872, the line was opened between the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway's (LS&MS) main line at "Grosvenor" (near Blissfield, Michigan) and Fayette, Ohio.
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.
Michigan Air Line Railroad; ... St. Clair and Chicago Air Line Railroad; St. Clair River, Pontiac and Jackson Railroad; St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880–89)
The Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw Railway (CK&S), known informally as the "Cuss, Kick & Swear" [1] is a defunct railroad which operated in southwest Michigan in the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries. Despite the name, the line ran entirely within the state of Michigan, with the majority in Kalamazoo County.
The City of Detroit invested $50,000 in the project. The State of Michigan bailed out the railroad in 1837 by purchasing it and investing $5,000,000. The now state-owned company was renamed the Central Railroad of Michigan. John Murray Forbes, President of Michigan Central Railroad from 1846 to 1855
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 ...
Chicago and North Western Railroad [8] Escanaba to Hermansville Rail-Trail 25.5 41.0 Delta, Menominee: Soo Line Railroad [9] Felch Grade Trail 38 61 Dickinson, Delta, Menominee: Chicago and North Western Railroad [10] Freda Grade Trail 8.4 13.5 Houghton: Copper Range Railroad [11] Gay-Mohawk Trail 27.4 44.1 Keweenaw: Copper Range Railroad [12 ...
The Porter Subdivision [2] is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the Chicago, Illinois, area.Formerly a part of the main line of the Michigan Central Railroad, it now connects CSX's former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line and the Chicago Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad from the east with the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad towards Blue Island, Illinois.