April 17:  The north tube of the Detroit River railroad tunnel is re-opened after a $27.5 million clearance project.  The new dimensions of the tunnel allow 19' 6"double-stack railroad cars to use the tunnel.  [MT/SOO-S/1994]

April 30:  The Norfolk Southern ended Detroit River car ferry operations when the Cassidy and the barge Windsor departed the CP slip in Windsor.  [KB]

May 5:  Amtrak begins running passenger trains to Pontiac from Detroit and Chicago.  [MRC-4/1995]

May:  The CP Rail station in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario is damaged by fire.  It is demolished on August 24, 1994.  [MRC-2/1995]

Summer:  The Leelanau Scenic Railroad is no more, as a truck hits one of the line bridges and the railroad folded.  The right of ways are turned into bike trails.  [MRC-4/1995]

October 1:  The former Detroit & Mackinac depot in Alpena is heavily damaged by fire.  The depot will be razed on December 19, 1996.  [MRC-4/1995]

October 27:  The Fourth Street interlocking at Three Rivers is removed.  This was the crossing of the Air Line Division (to Niles) and the Kalamazoo branch.

October:  The Huron & Eastern Ry. has rail-banked approximately 11 miles of the line between Ruth and Harbor Beach, MI (formally part of the Pere Marquette's Harbor Beach Subdivision).  [C&OHS-10/94]

December 8:  Crews from both sides break through to create the new Port Huron-Sarnia international railroad tunnel.  [MRC-2/1995]

CSX car float operation at Port Huron ties up for the last time.  The car float operation began in 1902.  [MRC-2/1995]

NS shuts down its steam program.  N&W 611 is placed in a museum in Roanoke, Virginia.  [MRC-2/1995]

Lake States Railway vacates the former D&M Tawas City shops, moving maintenance operations to the roundhouse at Alpena.  [MRC-2/1995]

The Alanson & Petosky (former GR&I/PRR) closes.  [MRC-4/1995]

Lake State Railway abandons the Paxton Branch.  The route, which went from Alpena to an open pit rock quarry at Paxton formally went west to Hillman.  [MRC-4/1995]