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A Kansas equity company is buying Michigan's Great Lakes Central Railroad. What we know
A Pittsburg, Kansas-based railroad equity company this week announced it has agreed to purchase a mid-Michigan regional hauler that runs from Ann Arbor to northern Michigan. Watco Railroad Company ...
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Michigan Central train station plans reveal when — and where — passenger rail could return
The presentation was prepared in advance of a visit by Federal Railroad Administration officials to Detroit in mid-October. At the same time, Amtrak officials toured the Michigan Central property ...
The New York Times7y
MICHIGAN CENTRAL IN NEW HANDS.; VANDERBILT'S TRIUMPH AT THE ANNUAL ELECTION OF DIRECTORS. ARMY AND NAVY MATTERS.
DETROIT, June 24. The annual election of the Michigan Central Railroad took place to-day, and resulted in the expected triumph of the Vanderbilt interest. William H. Vanderbilt arrived here at 5 P ...
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What's That Building: Michigan City coaling tower coming down
A century ago, the Michigan Central Railroad built a coaling tower to dump coal into steam-powered locomotives passing underneath on its tracks that run parallel to Dunes Highway in Michigan City.
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The Michigan Air Line
Typical of their brethren everywhere, even a century after the fact many railroaders still called certain southern Michigan ...