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1984

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  • January:  Amtrak announces plans to discontinue Ann Arbor-Detroit commuter service.  [MDOT]

  • Winter:  The Chessie roundhouse at Wyoming Yard is scheduled for demolition.  [MRC-4/1983]

  • February 9:  The last train cleans up cars on the GTW PO&N branch line between Piegon and Cass City, and the route is officially abandoned.  [NB-Sum-1993]

  • February 15:  Michigan Dept. of Transportation acquires 342 miles of railroad track from Penn Central.  [MDOT]

  • Early:  The C&O acqauires the Toledo Terminal Railroad, the 26-mile road that encircles the city.  [MRC-6/1984]

  • August 21:  Straits carferry the "Chief Wawatam" finishes service.   [MDOT]

  • August:  Coe Rail, Inc. buys Wixom to Walled Lake portion of GTW Jackson Branch.  [MRRC]

  • September 15:  Chessie runs their last train over their Hartford-Paw Paw branch.  The line will be reopened on September 8, 1987 as the Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & Chicago.  [MRC-3/1988]

  • September:  Conrail donates its old Detroit River tunnel crane to the Edison institute.  [MRC-9/1985]

  • October 1:  Operations of state owned track in northern Michigan are transferred from the Michigan Northern Ry. to the Tuscola & Saginaw Bay Railroad.  [NK]

  • Michigan Northern, in an effort to survive, buys the unwanted Bay View to Mackinaw City line from Penn Central and starts a truck-to-rail transfer operation at Pellston with steel from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.  The line is closed for good on April 12, 1987.  The rails were removed in June, 1987.  [NK]

  • October:  Coe Rail begins rail operations on the former Grand Trunk Western rail line from Wixom to Walled Lake.  [MDOT]

  • Detroit & Mackinac Railway closes Big Cut quarry.  Idles line between Big Cut and Hawks.

  • The CSX abandons its line between Kinde and Port Austin (6.6 miles).  [AB]

  • Former PRR dock tracks in Muskegon abandoned.  [COHS-7/1994]

  • Washouts on the former PM line west of Petosky cause the abandonment of the line to Charlevoix.  [NK]

  • C&O closes the Sebewaing depot - [MRC-06/89]

  • The C&O acquires the Port Huron and Detroit Railroad.  [MRC-6/1984]

  • The Montreal Locomotive Works discontinues building diesel locomotives.  [SAM]