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 ...
Many Michigan towns find their roots along the railroad tracks that connected people nationwide for nearly a hundred years. And while train traffic isn’t what it once was, the impact of railways can ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — West Michigan Railroad Company received up to $8.7 million to fund infrastructure improvements to approximately 10 miles of West Michigan Railroad (WMR) in Southwest Michigan, ...
Michigan's railroad history is packed with adventure, innovation, and stories that shaped how people traveled across the state. From steam engines that once chugged through small towns to electric ...
An early steam train traveled on tracks at Wapakoneta. The locomotive was most likely part of the Dayton & Michigan Railroad. When Dr. George F. Holbrook came to Wapakoneta in the 1830s, he arrived in ...
LANSING, MI - Michigan is allocating $16 million in grant funds for a handful of freight railway projects around the state. On Thursday, March 14, the state’s Department of Transportation announced 10 ...
CHARLEVOIX — One hundred fifty years ago, on May 17, 1873, Charlevoix Sentinel editor Willard A. Smith reported that “Every boat brings numbers of new settlers for the unoccupied territory in the ...
KALAMAZOO, MI – A railroad crossing will close in downtown Kalamazoo, sending drivers on a more than half-mile detour. The railroad crossing on East Michigan Avenue at Pitcher Street will close Monday ...