Like many communities in the 19th century, when a rail line opened in an area, it was one more step out of the wilderness.

The subject of railroad-owned resort hotels is one that has been largely neglected in the history of Michigan railroads and summer resorts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Willis F. Dunbar, ...

Michigan City is booming and well on its way to recovery from its economic collapse in the 1950s and 1960s. From Michigan City north along Lake Michigan into southwest Michigan is now a very desirable ...

A short-line railroad carrier serving areas of Central and Northern Michigan has sold to a longtime minority shareholder. Owosso-based Great Lakes Central Railroad Inc. on March 6 completed the sale ...

Michigan's Great Lakes Central Railroad is changing ownership. What we know Dan Basso, Lansing State Journal Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 11:43 AM4 min read ...

The deal is subject to approval by the Surface Transportation Board. Great Lakes Central Railroad, with 400 miles of track, is Michigan's largest Class III regional railroad.

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 ...

Watco Railroad Company Holdings will purchase Great Lakes Central Railroad, expanding its Michigan presence. The deal is subject to approval by the Surface Transportation Board. Great Lakes ...

Shortline holding company Watco is adding another railroad to its stable: Great Lakes Central, the operator of 420 miles of state-owned trackage in Michigan. Watco already knows the railroad well ...

Data shows these derailments are not unusual. Every day, the nation's railroads move millions of tons of raw materials and finished goods around the country on about 140,000 miles of rails, but ...