Mid-Michigan Railroad

Mid-Michigan Railroad

Overview
Headquarters	Muskegon, Michigan
Reporting mark	MMRR
Locale	Michigan
Dates of operation	1987[1]–
Predecessor	CSX Transportation
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length	39.8 miles

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]

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]

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 the Lake State Railway at Paines.^[5]

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

• Branch, Elam Edgar (1916). History of Ionia County, Michigan: Her People, Industries and Institutions. Ionia County, Michigan: B.F. Bowen & Co.
• Ivey, Paul (1919). The Pere Marquette Railroad Company. Lansing, MI: Michigan Historical Commission. OCLC 66109442.
• Meints, Graydon M. (1992). Michigan Railroads and Railroad Companies. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87013-318-3.
• Meints, Graydon M. (2005). Michigan Railroad Lines. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87013-693-1.

• Mid-Michigan Railroad official webpage - Genesee and Wyoming website