RRHX

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2007

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  • Improvement in Technology         Mining.

  • Railroad built or extended

  • Railroad abandoned and/or removed

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  • June 13:  Watco Companies, Inc. and the Norfolk Southern Railroad announced the creation of the Michigan Central Railway, LLC, to take over operation of former NS/CR/PC/NYC/MC lines between Ypsilanti and Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids and Elkhart, and Jackson and Lansing.  The plan was subsequently rejected by the Surface Transportation Board.

  • Lake State Railway opens a 2 mile branch line from Gaylord to A&L Iron, a scrap processing plant.  [LSRC]

  • Lake State Railway announces plans to relocate their Alpena Shop to the former PM/C&O faciliy at Saginaw Yard on the Saginaw Bay Southern Railway.  [LSRC]