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 ...

The freight rail industry is a significant economic enabler in Detroit and the entire state of Michigan. “Rail has long played an outside role in moving Michigan’s auto industry, from the early 1900s ...

A Pittsburg, Kansas-based railroad equity company this week announced it has agreed to purchase a mid-Michigan regional hauler that runs from Ann Arbor to northern Michigan. Watco Railroad Company ...

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 ...

The Michigan Department of Transportation has awarded grants to repair and upgrade 32 railroad grade crossings statewide, including four in Genesee County. MDOT said in a news release that the grants ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — West Michigan Railroad Company received up to $8.7 million to fund infrastructure improvements to approximately 10 miles of West Michigan Railroad (WMR) in Southwest Michigan, ...

The work on Michigan’s short line railroads is picking up steam. U.S Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, announced that he is cosponsoring a ...

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 ...