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. It ...

The freight rail industry is a significant economic enabler in Detroit and the entire state of Michigan. “Rail has long played an outside role in moving Michigan’s auto industry, from the early 1900s ...

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 — Sen. Gary Peters announced $119 million has been allocated to improve Michigan's railroads. The money is provided by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) through a bipartisan ...

This year the train will pass through several Michigan cities after stopping in Windsor, Ontario, from 5-5:30 p.m. Nov. 22.

The history of Michigan's railroads is colorful and complex, and there's probably no one who knows the subject better than Graydon M. Meints (pronounced like "Heinz"), the author of 12 books on the ...

JACKSON, MI – At the dawn of the 20th century, the most common way to travel was by train, which made the local train depot the epicenter of most communities in America. The importance of train ...

From the shores of Lake Michigan to the heart of Detroit, and north to Sault Ste. Marie, sites in Michigan echo through time with stories of the past not often found in textbooks – the stories of ...