Great Lakes Central Railroad

Template:Short description Template:Refimprove Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". The Great Lakes Central Railroad (reporting mark GLC) is an American regional railroad operating in the state of Michigan. It was originally called the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway (reporting mark TSBY), which was formed on August 26, 1977, to operate over former Penn Central lines from Millington to Munger, and from Vassar to Colling. TSBY's name was derived from the three counties it operated in: Tuscola, Saginaw and Bay.

History

Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway (1977–2006)

The Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway was incorporated on April 26, 1977.Template:Sfnp It operated three lines under contract to the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), succeeding Conrail: the Bay City branch between Millington, Michigan, and Munger, Michigan; the Caro branch between Vassar, Michigan, and Colling, Michigan; and the Saginaw branch between Vassar and Richville, Michigan. In 1981, it purchased Script error: No such module "convert". of the Saginaw branch between Richville and Harger (near Saginaw, Michigan), from the Grand Trunk Western Railroad.Template:Sfnp

In October 1982, MDOT selected the TSBY to replace the Michigan Interstate Railway as the designated operator on two lines: the Ann Arbor Railroad main line between Ann Arbor and Alma, Michigan, and on the Saginaw branch between Owosso and Swan Creek, near Saginaw, Michigan.Template:Sfnp MDOT transferred the remainder of the ex-Ann Arbor main line from the Michigan Northern Railway to the TSBY in May 1984. MDOT transferred the remainder of the Michigan Northern's state-owned lines to the TSBY in October 1984:Template:Sfnp

the former Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway main line between Reed City and Petoskey.
the former GR&I Traverse City branch between Traverse City and Walton.
the former Pere Marquette Railway between Grawn and Williamsburg via Traverse City.
the former Pere Marquette between Charlevoix and Bay View near Petoskey.

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The contract for the line between Charlevoix and Bay View ended in 1988; the state abandoned the line in 1991.Template:Sfnp Train ferry service on the northern end of the former Ann Arbor line had ended in 1982, leaving the line out of service beyond Yuma.Template:Sfnp^[1] The Huron and Eastern Railway replaced TSBY as the designated operator on its original three lines around Vassar in 1991. At the same time, the TSBY sold the Script error: No such module "convert". of the Saginaw branch between Richville and Harger to the Huron and Eastern.Template:Sfnp The state abandoned the former GR&I main line between Cadillac and Comstock Park in 1991.Template:Sfnp Also abandoned in 1991 was the Saginaw branch between Chesaning and St. Charles.