February 1:  Wisconsin Central takes over control and operations of the Algoma Central Railroad in Ontario.  [MRC-4/1995]

February 12:  Operations cease on the former WC line from Mellon, WI to Bessemer, MI. 

April 2:  Amtrak discontinues daily passenger service between Toledo and Detroit.  [MRC- 6/1995]

April 5:  CN opens new $200 million, 6130-foot tunnel between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.  Old tunnel is closed.

April:  NS upgrades the old Union Belt "PX" Yard, which is located between Harbough Avenue and West End Avenue in Detroit.  The yard, which formerly served the GM Fleetwood plant, will serve a new NS container facility.  It is called West End Yard.  [MRC-2/1995]

Spring:  CSX ceases operating railfan excursions.  [MRC-6/1995]

May:  The Kalamazoo, Lake Shore and Chicago ceases operation on their line from Hartford to Paw Paw.  [MRC-9/1996]

Summer:  The LS&I completes a rehabilitation of their Republic Branch in preparation for hauling aggregate remains from the local pelletizing proces to the ore dock.  [SSDiv-10/1994]

October:  The West Michigan Railroad, a Pioneer Rail Corporation unit, begins operation on the former KLS&C between Hartford and Paw Paw.  [MRC-9/1996]

Chicago & Northwestern is merged into the Union Pacific Railroad (UP).  UP now serves the Marquette iron range in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  [STOV]

The last semaphore signal on the ex-C&O Michigan lines is removed from the home signal at Porter, Indiana where the CSX Grand Rapids Sub joins the Conrail Chicago-Elkhart line. (Editors Note: As of 2001, a fixed, but lighted semaphore continues to exist on the approach to the Manistee River bridge in Manistee on the CSX.)  [MRC-4/1995]

There are 3,829 miles of railroad in Michigan.  [STOV]

All rail cars must be equipped with journal roller bearings.  Plain bearings are no longer allowed.  [SAM]