Mid-Michigan Railroad

The Mid-Michigan Railroad (reporting mark MMRR) is a railroad owned by Genesee & Wyoming.[2] It operates 39.8 miles of track in Michigan.[2]

Mid-Michigan Railroad
Overview
HeadquartersMuskegon, Michigan
Reporting markMMRR
LocaleMichigan
Dates of operation1987[1]–
PredecessorCSX Transportation
Technical
Track gauge4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length39.8 miles

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:Elmdale–Greenville and Paines–Elwell.[3] In 1999 it sold the southernmost 5.6 miles (9.0 km) of Elmdale line, Elmdale–Malta, back to CSX.[4]

Routes

Paines-Alma

The only remaining line on the Mid-Michigan is the line from Paines to Alma. 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 the Lake State Railway at Paines.[5]

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
  1. "Mid Michigan Railroad". Retrieved 2007-12-06.
  2. "RailAmerica's Empire". Trains Magazine. Kalmbach Publishing. June 2010.
  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.
  5. Mid-Michigan Railroad (MMRR) Genesee & Wyoming

References
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