Time Line - 2024

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• March. The Port of Monroe in Monroe County receives $16 million from state and federal funding to dredge deeper access channels and acquire modern handling equipment with a goal of becoming Michigan's first container terminal.
• Spring. CSX receives a $5 million grant to improve their Livernois Yard intermodal facility. The grant will improve equipment, rail and roads.[MRC-2024-4]
• July. Lake State Railway begins unloading multi-level automobile cars for the Ford Motor Company at Gaylord. These vehicles will be transloaded to trucks for delivery to Ford dealers in northern Michigan.
• August 25. The final two NS Triple Crown RoadRailers operated tonight between Detroit and Kansas City.

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• 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