Time Line - 2007

Last Year | Next Year

• June 13: Watco Companies, Inc. and the Norfolk Southern Railroad announced the creation of the Michigan Central Railway, LLC, to take over operation of former NS/CR/PC/NYC/MC lines between Ypsilanti and Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids and Elkhart, and Jackson and Lansing. The plan was subsequently rejected by the Surface Transportation Board.

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• Lake State Railway opens a 2 mile branch line from Gaylord to A&L Iron, a scrap processing plant. [LSRC]

• Lake State Railway announces plans to relocate their Alpena Shop to the former PM/C&O faciliy at Saginaw Yard on the Saginaw Bay Southern Railway. [LSRC]

Time line Key:

• Railroad event in Michigan
• Event relating to mining
• Event related to car ferries
• Event outside of Michigan
• Improvement in Technology
• Railroad built or extended
• Railroad abandoned and/or removed
• Economic panic or depression