List of Michigan Railroads |
Railroad Name |
Start Date |
End Date |
Allegan and Holland Railroad |
1868 |
1869 |
Allegan and Lake Shore Railroad |
1883 |
1889 |
Allegan and Southeastern Railroad |
1878 |
1883 |
Alpena and Northern Railroad |
1893 |
1895 |
Amboy, Lansing and Traverse Bay Railroad |
1857 |
1867 |
Ann Arbor Railroad |
1895 |
1976 |
Arcadia and Betsey River Railway |
1895 |
1936 |
Au Sable and Northwestern Railroad |
1891 |
1906 |
Au Sable and Northwestern Railway |
1908 |
1914 |
Battle Creek and Bay City Railway |
1888 |
1889 |
Battle Creek and Sturgis Railway |
1889 |
1969 |
Bay City Belt Line Railroad |
1889 |
1903 |
Bay City Terminal Railway |
1910 |
1928 |
Bay City and Alpena Railroad |
1881 |
1883 |
Bay City and Battle Creek Railway |
1889 |
1916 |
Bay City and East Saginaw Railroad |
1864 |
1872 |
Bay De Noquet and Marquette Railroad |
1857 |
1871 |
Bay View, Little Traverse and Mackinaw Railroad |
1879 |
1887 |
Bear Lake and Eastern Railroad |
1882 |
1902 |
Benton Harbor Terminal Railway |
1901 |
Unknown |
Benton Harbor and South Eastern Railway |
1893 |
1897 |
Benton Harbor, Coloma and Paw Paw Lake Train Railway |
1895 |
1903 |
Blaney and Southern Railway |
1902 |
Unknown |
Boyne City and South Eastern Railroad |
1893 |
1905 |
Boyne City, Gaylord and Alpena Railroad |
1905 |
1935 |
Buchanan and St. Joseph River Railroad |
1894 |
1912 |
Buckley and Douglas Railroad |
1881 |
1889 |
Canada Southern Bridge Company |
1873 |
Unknown |
Canada Southern Railway |
1874 |
1904 |
Canada and St. Louis Railway |
1887 |
1889 |
Caro and Lake Huron Railroad |
1901 |
1908 |
Cass River Railroad |
1871 |
1872 |
Central Railroad |
1837 |
1846 |
Chicago and Canada Southern Railway |
1871 |
1888 |
Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway |
1880 |
1900 |
Chicago and Kalamazoo Terminal Railroad |
1895 |
1928 |
Chicago and Lake Huron Railroad |
1873 |
1879 |
Chicago and Michigan Lake Shore Railroad |
1869 |
1878 |
Chicago and North Eastern Railroad |
1874 |
1880 |
Chicago and North Michigan Railroad |
1891 |
1899 |
Chicago and North Western Railway |
1859 |
1972 |
Chicago and West Michigan Railroad |
1878 |
1881 |
Chicago and West Michigan Railway |
1881 |
1917 |
Chicago, Detroit and Canada Grand Trunk Junction Railroad |
1858 |
1928 |
Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad |
1906 |
1914 |
Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw Railway |
1883 |
1976 |
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway |
1872 |
1928 |
Chicago, Saginaw and Canada Railroad |
1873 |
1883 |
Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad |
1855 |
1859 |
Cincinnati Northern Railroad |
1894 |
1938 |
Cincinnati and Michigan Railroad |
1891 |
1892 |
Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw Railroad |
1886 |
1892 |
Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw Railway |
1892 |
1897 |
Cincinnati, Saginaw and Mackinaw Railroad |
1889 |
1943 |
Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railway |
1871 |
1915 |
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway |
1889 |
1976 |
Coldwater Train Railway |
1905 |
Unknown |
Colfax and Big Rapids Railroad |
1887 |
1889 |
Copper Range Railroad |
1899 |
1972 |
Crawford and Manistee River Railway |
1885 |
1904 |
Dead River Railroad |
1889 |
1907 |
Delray Terminal Railroad |
1905 |
Unknown |
Detroit Belt Line Railroad |
1909 |
1916 |
Detroit Manufacturers Railroad |
1902 |
1969 |
Detroit River Bridge Company |
1898 |
1905 |
Detroit River Railroad and Bridge Company |
1872 |
1873 |
Detroit River Tunnel Company |
1905 |
Unknown |
Detroit Southern Railroad |
1901 |
1905 |
Detroit Terminal Railroad |
1905 |
1984 |
Detroit Terminal Railway |
1901 |
1902 |
Detroit Transit Railway |
1872 |
1901 |
Detroit Union Railroad Depot and Station Company |
1881 |
1955 |
Detroit and Bay City Railroad |
1881 |
1916 |
Detroit and Bay City Railway |
1871 |
1881 |
Detroit and Charlevoix Railroad |
1901 |
1916 |
Detroit and Chicago Railroad |
1888 |
1914 |
Detroit and Cincinnati Railway |
1896 |
1897 |
Detroit and Howell Railroad |
1864 |
1870 |
Detroit and Huron Railway |
1912 |
1928 |
Detroit and Ironton Railroad |
1920 |
1931 |
Detroit and Lima Northern Railway |
1897 |
1901 |
Detroit and Mackinac Railway |
1894 |
1992 |
Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad |
1860 |
1878 |
Detroit and Milwaukee Railway |
1855 |
1860 |
Detroit and Pontiac Railroad |
1834 |
1855 |
Detroit and St. Joseph Railroad |
1832 |
1837 |
Detroit and State Line Railroad |
1872 |
1872 |
Detroit and State Line Wabash Railroad |
1889 |
1889 |
Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad |
1899 |
1981 |
Detroit and Western Railway |
1908 |
1958 |
Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Railroad |
1883 |
1894 |
Detroit, Bay City and Western Railroad |
1907 |
1925 |
Detroit, Butler and St. Louis Railroad |
1880 |
1881 |
Detroit, Delray and Dearborn Railroad |
1895 |
1916 |
Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway |
1878 |
1928 |
Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western Railroad |
1896 |
1899 |
Detroit, Hillsdale and Indiana Railroad |
1869 |
1875 |
Detroit, Hillsdale and South Western Railroad |
1875 |
1960 |
Detroit, Howell and Lansing Railroad |
1870 |
1871 |
Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan Railroad |
1871 |
1876 |
Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad |
1876 |
1896 |
Detroit, Mackinac and Marquette Railroad |
1879 |
1886 |
Detroit, Monroe and Toledo Railroad |
1855 |
1914 |
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad |
1914 |
1983 |
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railway |
1905 |
1913 |
Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee Railroad |
1897 |
1969 |
Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway |
1887 |
1949 |
East Jordan and Southern Railroad |
1901 |
1961 |
East Saginaw and St. Clair Railroad |
1872 |
1889 |
Elkhart, Niles and Lake Michigan Railroad |
1880 |
1882 |
Empire and Southeastern Railroad |
Unknown |
1920 |
Epworth League Railway |
1895 |
1901 |
Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad |
1833 |
1976 |
Erie and Michigan Railway and Navigation Company |
1904 |
1949 |
Escanaba and Lake Superior Railway |
1880 |
1901 |
Escanaba, Frankfort and Southeastern Railroad |
1895 |
1895 |
Escanaba, Iron Mountain and Western Railroad |
1890 |
1947 |
Flint River Railroad |
1871 |
1872 |
Flint and Fentonville Railroad |
1863 |
1863 |
Flint and Holly Railroad |
1863 |
1868 |
Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad |
1880 |
1899 |
Flint and Pere Marquette Railway |
1857 |
1880 |
Fort Street Union Depot Company |
1889 |
1969 |
Fort Wayne and Jackson Railroad |
1880 |
1976 |
Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw Railroad |
1868 |
1879 |
Frankfort and Southeastern Railroad |
1885 |
1892 |
Garden Bay Railway |
1914 |
1917 |
Glencoe, Pinconning and Lake Shore Railroad |
1876 |
1879 |
Gogebic and Montreal River Railroad |
1883 |
Unknown |
Grand Haven Railroad |
1878 |
1881 |
Grand Rapids Terminal Belt Railway |
1905 |
Unknown |
Grand Rapids Terminal Railroad |
1904 |
1928 |
Grand Rapids and Holland Railroad |
1871 |
1871 |
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad |
1854 |
1896 |
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway |
1896 |
1954 |
Grand Rapids and Lake Shore Railroad |
1869 |
1870 |
Grand Rapids and Mackinaw Railroad |
1857 |
1857 |
Grand Rapids and Southern Railroad |
1855 |
1855 |
Grand Rapids, Belding and Saginaw Railroad |
1898 |
1903 |
Grand Rapids, Indiana and Mackinaw Railroad |
1881 |
1884 |
Grand Rapids, Kalkaska and Southeastern Railroad |
1897 |
1920 |
Grand Rapids, Lansing and Detroit Railroad |
1887 |
1896 |
Grand Rapids, Newaygo and Lake Shore Railroad |
1869 |
1881 |
Grand River Valley Railroad |
1846 |
1916 |
Grand Trunk Railway |
1853 |
1923 |
Grand Trunk Railway of Michigan |
1867 |
1868 |
Grand Trunk Western Railway |
1900 |
1928 |
Grass Lake and Manistee River Railroad |
1886 |
1892 |
Grayling, Twin Lakes and Northeastern Railroad |
1891 |
1901 |
Hancock and Calumet Railroad |
1885 |
1935 |
Harbor Beach and Port Hope Railroad |
1903 |
1903 |
Harbor Springs Railway |
1901 |
1912 |
Hastings, Lowell and Northern Michigan Railroad |
1883 |
1887 |
Hecla Belt Line Railroad |
1902 |
1913 |
Hobart and Manistee River Railroad |
1879 |
1890 |
Holly, Wayne and Monroe Railway |
1865 |
1872 |
Houghton and L'Anse Railroad |
1881 |
1883 |
Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad |
1870 |
1872 |
Howell and Lansing Railroad |
1868 |
1870 |
Huron and Western Railroad |
1902 |
1940 |
Indiana and Lake Michigan Railway |
1887 |
1898 |
Indiana and Michigan Railroad |
1881 |
1881 |
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railroad |
1881 |
1906 |
Ingalls, White Rapids and Northern Railroad |
1889 |
1894 |
Ingalls, White Rapids and Northern Railway |
1886 |
1889 |
Ionia and Lansing Railroad |
1866 |
1871 |
Ionia, Stanton and Northern Railroad |
1872 |
1872 |
Iron Mountain Railroad |
1855 |
1859 |
Iron Mountain Railway |
1855 |
1927 |
Iron Range Railway |
1887 |
1889 |
Iron Range and Huron Bay Railroad |
1890 |
1900 |
Iron River Railway |
1886 |
1889 |
Ithaca and Alma Railroad |
1882 |
1882 |
Jackson and Cincinnati Railway |
1895 |
1898 |
Jackson and Ohio Railroad |
1884 |
1886 |
Jackson, Fort Wayne and Cincinnati Railroad |
1868 |
1869 |
Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad |
1865 |
1916 |
Jennings and Northeastern Railroad |
Unknown |
1920 |
Kalamazoo and Allegan Railroad |
1867 |
1868 |
Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids Railroad |
1868 |
1868 |
Kalamazoo and Schoolcraft Railroad |
1866 |
1869 |
Kalamazoo and South Haven Railroad |
1869 |
1916 |
Kalamazoo and White Pigeon Railroad |
1869 |
1914 |
Kalamazoo, Allegan and Grand Rapids Railroad |
1868 |
1976 |
Kalamazoo, Lake Shore and Chicago Railway |
1905 |
1925 |
Kalamazoo, Lowell and Northern Michigan Railroad |
1871 |
1883 |
Keweenaw Central Railroad |
1905 |
Unknown |
Lac La Belle and Calumet Railroad |
1883 |
1888 |
Lake George and Muskegon River Railroad |
1876 |
1886 |
Lake Huron and Southwestern Railway |
1879 |
1879 |
Lake Michigan Division of the Toledo and South Haven Railroad |
1884 |
1886 |
Lake Shore Railroad of Western Michigan |
1869 |
1869 |
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway |
1869 |
1914 |
Lake Superior Iron Mountain Railroad |
1862 |
1878 |
Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railway |
1893 |
1923 |
Lansing Connecting Railroad |
1914 |
Unknown |
Lansing Manufacturers Railroad |
1904 |
1969 |
Lansing Transit Railway |
1886 |
1969 |
Lansing and Jackson Railroad |
1864 |
1865 |
Lansing, Alma, Mount Pleasant and Northern Railroad |
1884 |
1886 |
Lapeer and Northern Railroad |
1872 |
1880 |
Leelanau Transit Company |
1919 |
1973 |
Lewiston and Southeastern Railroad |
1896 |
1910 |
Lima Northern Railway |
1895 |
1897 |
Lowell and Hastings Railroad |
1887 |
1899 |
Ludington and Northern Railway |
1901 |
1982 |
Mackinaw and Marquette Railroad |
1886 |
1887 |
Manistee Railroad |
1880 |
1889 |
Manistee and Grand Rapids Railroad |
1889 |
1913 |
Manistee and Luther Railroad |
1886 |
1914 |
Manistee and North-Eastern Railroad |
1887 |
1926 |
Manistique Railway |
1886 |
1910 |
Manistique and Lake Superior Railroad |
1909 |
1968 |
Manistique and Northern Railroad |
1908 |
1909 |
Manistique and Northwestern Railway |
1891 |
1902 |
Manistique, Marquette and Northern Railroad |
1902 |
1908 |
Mansfield, Coldwater and Lake Michigan Railroad |
1871 |
1877 |
Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad |
1863 |
1872 |
Marquette and Ontonagon Railway |
1857 |
1863 |
Marquette and Southeastern Railway |
1900 |
1911 |
Marquette and State Line Railroad |
1857 |
1857 |
Marquette and Western Railroad |
1883 |
1885 |
Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad |
1872 |
1890 |
Mason and Oceana Railroad |
1886 |
1909 |
Mecosta Railroad |
1882 |
1888 |
Menominee Branch Railroad |
1883 |
1887 |
Menominee River Railroad |
1875 |
1882 |
Menominee and Northern Railroad |
1893 |
1895 |
Menominee and Sault Ste. Marie Railway |
1885 |
1888 |
Menominee and St. Paul Railway |
1899 |
1958 |
Michigan Air Line Railroad |
1868 |
1916 |
Michigan Air Line Railway |
1875 |
1928 |
Michigan Central Bridge Company |
1896 |
1898 |
Michigan Central Railroad |
1846 |
1976 |
Michigan East and West Railway |
1914 |
1918 |
Michigan Lake Shore Railroad |
1869 |
1878 |
Michigan Midland Railroad |
1870 |
1873 |
Michigan Midland and Canada Railroad |
1872 |
1906 |
Michigan Railway |
1880 |
1880 |
Michigan Southern Railroad |
1846 |
1855 |
Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad |
1855 |
1869 |
Michigan and Canada Bridge and Tunnel Company |
1905 |
1905 |
Michigan and Mackinaw Railroad |
1891 |
1892 |
Michigan and Ohio Railroad |
1883 |
1887 |
Michigan, Ohio and Indiana Railroad |
1905 |
1906 |
Milwaukee and Northern Railroad |
1880 |
1893 |
Milwaukee, Benton Harbor and Columbus Railway |
1897 |
1903 |
Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railroad |
1872 |
1875 |
Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railway |
1875 |
1893 |
Mineral Range Railroad |
1872 |
1949 |
Mineral Range and L'Anse Bay Railroad |
1871 |
1872 |
Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie and Atlantic Railway |
1883 |
1888 |
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway |
1888 |
1944 |
Miscauno and North-Western Railway |
1905 |
1905 |
Monroe and Toledo Railway |
1893 |
1897 |
Montague, Pentwater and Manistee Railroad |
1871 |
1871 |
Munising Railway |
1895 |
1911 |
Munising, Marquette and Southeastern Railway |
1911 |
1923 |
Muskegon Lake Railroad |
1879 |
1900 |
Muskegon Railway and Navigation Company |
1918 |
1955 |
Muskegon River and Rose Lake Railway |
1878 |
1881 |
Muskegon and Big Rapids Railroad |
1871 |
1872 |
Muskegon and Ferrysburg Railroad |
1869 |
1869 |
Muskegon, Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad |
1886 |
1917 |
Negaunee and Palmer Railroad |
1888 |
1890 |
New York Central Railroad |
1853 |
1968 |
North Western Grand Trunk Railway |
1879 |
1880 |
Northern Central Michigan Railroad |
1866 |
1914 |
Northern Michigan Railroad |
1888 |
1899 |
Oakland and Ottawa Railroad |
1848 |
1855 |
Ohio and Michigan Railway |
1870 |
1871 |
Ohio and Michigan Traction Company |
1903 |
1904 |
Onaway and North Michigan Railway |
1901 |
Unknown |
Ontonagon Railroad |
1904 |
1932 |
Ontonagon and Brule River Railroad |
1880 |
1890 |
Ontonagon and State Line Railroad |
1856 |
1857 |
Owosso and Big Rapids Railroad |
1869 |
1871 |
Owosso and North Western Railroad |
1871 |
1883 |
Oxford and Port Austin Railroad |
1879 |
1880 |
Paint River Railway |
1890 |
1891 |
Palmyra and Jacksonburgh Railroad |
1836 |
1844 |
Paris and Pere Marquette River Railroad |
1882 |
1889 |
Patterson Railroad |
1870 |
1872 |
Paw Paw Railroad |
1857 |
1912 |
Peninsula Railroad of Michigan |
1862 |
1865 |
Peninsular Railway |
1865 |
1873 |
Peninsular Railway Extension Company |
1868 |
1868 |
Pennsylvania |
1917 |
1926 |
Penokee Railroad |
1886 |
1888 |
Pensalt Railroad |
1901 |
1908 |
Pere Marquette Railroad |
1899 |
1917 |
Pere Marquette Railroad of Indiana |
1903 |
1907 |
Pere Marquette Railway |
1917 |
1947 |
Pinconning Railroad |
1879 |
1880 |
Pleasant Bay Railway |
1898 |
1899 |
Pontiac, Oxford and Northern Railroad |
1889 |
1928 |
Pontiac, Oxford and Port Austin Railroad |
1880 |
1889 |
Port Huron Railroad Tunnel Company |
1886 |
1886 |
Port Huron Southern Railroad |
1900 |
1917 |
Port Huron and Detroit Railroad |
1917 |
1990 |
Port Huron and Indiana Railway |
1900 |
1900 |
Port Huron and Lake Michigan Railroad |
1847 |
1873 |
Port Huron and Milwaukee Railway |
1855 |
1863 |
Port Huron and Northwestern Railway |
1878 |
1889 |
Port Huron and South Western Railway |
1882 |
1882 |
Potts Logging Railway |
1887 |
1891 |
Quincy and Torch Lake Railroad |
1888 |
1945 |
Quinnesec and Western Railway |
1905 |
1905 |
Republic Branch Railroad |
1881 |
1887 |
River Raisin and Lake Erie Railroad |
1836 |
1840 |
Saginaw Bay and Northwestern Railroad |
1880 |
1901 |
Saginaw Valley and St. Louis Railroad |
1871 |
1896 |
Saginaw and Clare County Railroad |
1877 |
1889 |
Saginaw and Grand Rapids Railroad |
1878 |
1896 |
Saginaw and Mount Pleasant Railroad |
1879 |
1889 |
Saginaw and Western Railroad |
1883 |
1896 |
Saginaw, Tuscola and Huron Railroad |
1881 |
1903 |
Sanilac Railroad |
1901 |
1903 |
Sault Ste. Marie and Marquette Railroad |
1880 |
1887 |
Schoolcraft and Three Rivers Railroad |
1855 |
1869 |
Shelby and Detroit Railroad |
1834 |
1844 |
South Bend and St. Joseph Railroad |
1884 |
1884 |
South Eastern Michigan Railway |
1871 |
1871 |
South Haven and Eastern Railroad |
1894 |
1903 |
Southern Railroad |
1837 |
1867 |
St. Clair River, Pontiac and Jackson Railroad |
1872 |
1872 |
St. Clair Tunnel Company |
1886 |
2008 |
St. Clair and Chicago Air Line Railroad |
1872 |
1875 |
St. Clair and Western Railroad |
1906 |
1932 |
St. Joseph Valley Railroad |
1848 |
1889 |
St. Joseph Valley Railway |
1889 |
1918 |
St. Joseph, South Bend and Southern Railroad |
1899 |
1943 |
St. Louis, Sturgis and Battle Creek Railroad |
1884 |
1889 |
Ste. Marie Union Depot Company |
1900 |
1952 |
Sturgis and State Line Railway |
1886 |
1887 |
Sturgis, Goshen and St. Louis Railway |
1889 |
1915 |
Tawas and Bay County Railroad |
1880 |
1883 |
Toledo and Ann Arbor Railroad |
1877 |
1880 |
Toledo and Milwaukee Railroad |
1897 |
1897 |
Toledo and Milwaukee Railway |
1879 |
1883 |
Toledo and South Haven Railroad |
1876 |
1894 |
Toledo, Ann Arbor and Cadillac Railway |
1886 |
1888 |
Toledo, Ann Arbor and Detroit Railroad |
1904 |
1912 |
Toledo, Ann Arbor and Grand Trunk Railway |
1880 |
1884 |
Toledo, Ann Arbor and Jackson Railroad |
1911 |
1915 |
Toledo, Ann Arbor and Lake Michigan Railway |
1888 |
1890 |
Toledo, Ann Arbor and Mount Pleasant Railway |
1886 |
1887 |
Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railway |
1882 |
1895 |
Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northeastern Railroad |
1878 |
1880 |
Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Railroad |
1869 |
1875 |
Toledo, Canada Southern and Detroit Railway |
1872 |
1916 |
Toledo, Saginaw and Mackinaw Railroad |
1887 |
1890 |
Toledo, Saginaw and Muskegon Railway |
1886 |
1928 |
Toledo |
1915 |
1931 |
Traverse City Railroad |
1871 |
1917 |
Traverse City, Leelanau and Manistique Railway |
1908 |
1919 |
Traverse City, Leelanau, and Manistique Railroad |
1901 |
1907 |
Vieux Desert and Lake Superior Railroad |
1881 |
1883 |
Wabash Railroad |
1851 |
1915 |
Wabash Railway |
1876 |
1942 |
Wabash Western Railway |
1887 |
1889 |
Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway |
1879 |
1886 |
White River Railroad |
1879 |
1934 |
Wisconsin Central Company |
1887 |
1899 |
Wisconsin Central Railway |
1897 |
1954 |
Wisconsin and Michigan Railway |
1893 |
1938 |
Wisconsin, Michigan and Northern Railway |
1898 |
1902 |
Wisconsin, Sault Ste. Marie and Mackinac Railway |
1886 |
1887 |
Wyandotte Southern Railroad |
1908 |
1986 |
Wyandotte Terminal Railroad |
1904 |
1982 |