Michigan Central Railroad (red) and New York Central system (orange) as of 1918
Overview
Headquarters
Detroit, Michigan
Locale
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ontario
Founder
John Biddle[1]
Dates of operation
1841–1995
Predecessor
Detroit & St. Joseph Railroad
Successor
New York Central Railroad
Technical
Track gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Gold Bond of the Michigan Central Railroad Company, issued 10 July 1907
The Michigan Central Railroad (reporting mark MC) was originally chartered in 1832[2] to establish rail service between Detroit, Michigan, and St. Joseph, Michigan. The railroad later operated in the states of Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois in the United States and the province of Ontario in Canada. After about 1867 the railroad was controlled by the New York Central Railroad, which later became part of Penn Central and then Conrail. After the 1998 Conrail breakup, Norfolk Southern Railway now owns much of the former Michigan Central trackage.
At the end of 1925, MC operated 1,871 miles (3,011 km) of road and 4,139 miles (6,661 km) of track; that year it reported 4,304,000 net ton-miles of revenue freight and 600 million passenger-miles.
^Leeson, Michael A.; Clark, Damon (1881). History of Saginaw County, Michigan. C.C. Chapman & Company. p. 74.
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