Shortline holding company Watco is adding another railroad to its stable: Great Lakes Central, the operator of 420 miles of state-owned trackage in Michigan. Watco already knows the railroad well. It ...

Watco has officially taken over operations of the Great Lakes Central Railroad, Michigan's largest Class III regional ...

This year the train will pass through several Michigan cities after stopping in Windsor, Ontario, from 5-5:30 p.m. Nov. 22.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Gary Peters announced $119 million has been allocated to improve Michigan's railroads. The money is provided by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) through a bipartisan ...

P OWERS, Mich. (WLUC) - The Michigan Department of Transportation and the Menominee County Road Commission have issued a ...

Many Michigan towns find their roots along the railroad tracks that connected people nationwide for nearly a hundred years. And while train traffic isn’t what it once was, the impact of railways can ...

A $30 million investment by the federal government in Michigan’s railroad infrastructure is expected to bolster supply chains and, in turn, create more jobs in urban and rural communities throughout ...

Some of Michigan's steam train excursions include the Little River Railroad, based in Coldwater; the Steam Railroading Institute, based in Owosso; the Michigan Transit Museum, based in Mount Clemens; ...

The history of Michigan's railroads is colorful and complex, and there's probably no one who knows the subject better than Graydon M. Meints (pronounced like "Heinz"), the author of 12 books on the ...

The "underground railroad" included many stops in Michigan for African Americans seeking their freedom from slavery between the years of 1810 and 1850. During Black History month, we recognize the ...