Mid-Michigan Railroad

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History

The company incorporated in 1987,[2] for the purpose of acquiring railway lines from the CSX Corporation. The company was owned at inception by RailTex, a Texas-based holding company which owned many short line railroads. The Mid-Michigan bought two lines from CSX:ElmdaleGreenville and PainesElwell.[3] In 1999 it sold the southernmost Script error: No such module "convert". of Elmdale line, Elmdale–Malta, back to CSX.[4]

Routes

St. Louis Subdivision: Alma - Paines

The only remaining line on the Mid-Michigan is the line from Alma to Paines. The line from Lowell to Greenville was sold back to Grand Rapids Eastern Railroad and soon after removed for a bike trail in 2009. Corn and soybeans are the main commodities hauled. The railroad interchanges with the Great Lakes Central Railroad at Alma and Lake State Railway at Paines.[1]

Traffic

The railroad's traffic comes mainly from grain products, such as corn and soybeans. The MMRR hauled around 5,100 carloads in 2008.[2]

Notes

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  1. a b Mid-Michigan Railroad (MMRR) Genesee & Wyoming
  2. a b Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  3. Meints (1992), 113.
  4. Meints (2005), 365. Meints gives Elmdale-Ionia as the branch, but this is incorrect and contradicted elsewhere. See Meints (2005), 127.

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