Michigan/Railroads

Editing Railroads starting from TIGER data

Please read United_States/Railways#Editing_Railroads_starting_from_TIGER_data .

Current State of the Map (Michigan/Railroads)

At OpenRailwayMap (ORM)'s wider zoom levels <8, Michigan is seen to have a structure of mainline (orange). Correct any errors by addressing missing or incorrect usage=* and name=* tags. Errors remain in rail infrastructure and routes- use both route=railway and route=train) to collect current ways into singular routes for better tracking and inclusion in status tables below.

Suggestions

Please leave suggestions here for issues to address.

See the Wikidata link for transport companies that operated in Michigan. Please consider adding the "Q" wikidata item code to relations for railroads in Michigan using the key operator:wikidata=*. More possible queries for Q131 "instance of" field are "railway company", "Class III Railroad".

Yards


Name	`operator=*`	`operator:wikidata=*`	Area	Status
CSX Dix Intermodal Yard	CSX Transportation	Q856783	Detroit	565483164 565483164 Area is mapped, appears okay.
CSX Wyoming Yard	CSX Transportation	Q856783	Wyoming	8204079242 8204079242
Conrail Sterling Yard	Conrail Shared Assets Operations	Q5162679	Sterling Heights	671375667 671375667
Moterm Intermodal Terminal	Canadian National Railway	Q624798	Ferndale	555498679 555498679
Detroit Intermodal Terminal	Canadian Pacific Railway	Q46974		555500939 555500939
Schaefer Yard	Canadian National Railway	Q624798		638788110 638788110
Delray Intermodal Terminal	Norfolk Southern Railway	Q1321054	Detroit	555491938 555491938
DCRR Zug Island Yard	Delray Connecting Railroad	Q5254498		570801739 570801739
NS Livernois Intermodal Yard	Norfolk Southern Railway	Q1321054		555498226 555498226
Boat Yard	Norfolk Southern Railway	Q1321054		565570970 565570970
Transflo 12th Street Yard	CSX Transportation	Q856783			162762342 162762342

Railway Operators

Following is list of transit company operators associated with Michigan from a wikidata query. Missing or inaccurate data should be added to the Wikidata item directly or the associated Wikipedia article. Hint: if a company is missing from this query for Michigan, add the tag "locale=" with value of Michigan in the company infobox on Wikipedia. Please limit use of old_railway_operator, especially if a line has had multiple operators. Instead, please consider creating a relation for a defunct railroad company in OpenHistoricalMap instead- specifically see the OpenHistoricalMap Railways Project.

Name	`operator:wikidata=*`	Predecessor	`start_date=*`	Successor	`end_date=*`
Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway	Q3024776		1878	Grand Trunk Western Railroad	1928-11-01
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway	Q3216463	Multiple	1869	New York Central Railroad
Huckleberry Railroad	Q5928128
Ann Arbor Railroad	Q558087		1895		1976
Grand Trunk Western Railroad	Q3114621	Multiple	1928
Michigan Central Railroad	Q783387	Detroit and Charlevoix Railroad	1832	New York Central Railroad	1968
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad	Q3024775	Ohio Southern Railroad	1905	Grand Trunk Western Railroad	1983
Adrian and Blissfield Rail Road	Q374687	Tecumseh Branch Connecting Railroad	1991
Jackson and Lansing Railroad	Q65117393
Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway	Q3041133
Grand Rapids, Kalkaska and Southeastern Railroad	Q5594984
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad	Q628919
Marquette Rail	Q6772615
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway	Q1070560		1878
Ann Arbor Railroad (1988)	Q15141302	Michigan Interstate Railway Company	1988

Railtrails and "Transitways"

A railtrail uses a (usually former, abandonded) railroad right-of-way (ROW) for equestrian, bicycle or hiking paths, preserving the ROW for possible future re-use as a railway while providing a useful service in the meantime. These are often tagged highway=cycleway or highway=footway depending on whether they prefer or allow bicycle or pedestrian traffic. It is OK to tag both railway=abandoned and highway=cycleway if it is the case that an abandoned railway became a railtrail (for bicycle use, for example). Where a (multi-use) pathway is designated for pedestrians but also allows bicycles, tag highway=footway and bicycle=yes.


Name	`old_railway_operator=*`	Relation	Route	`start_date=*`	`end_date=*`	TIGER Review	Notes
Baw Beese Trail	Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway	9768475 9768475	Osseo to Hillsdale, Michigan
Bergland to Sidnaw Rail-Trail	Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway	5941263 5941263	Bergland to Sidnaw		1989
Betsey Valley Trail		1878390 1878390	Thompsonville to Elberta
Dequindre Cut Greenway	Grand Trunk Western Railroad	12399543 12399543	Detroit				Local pedestrian, bicycle trail
Fred Meijer Heartland Trail	Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad	283539 283539	Greenville northeast to Alma, Michigan			Reviewed by Circuit_Rider	Regional hiking, bicycle trail
Fred Meijer Clinton-Ionia-Shiawassee Trail	Grand Trunk Western Railroad	9767417 9767417	Lowell to Owosso
Kal-Haven Trail	New York Central Railroad/Michigan Central Railroad	272890 272890	Kalamazoo to South Haven, MI	1871	1973	Reviewed by jonesydesign	Regional hiking, bicycle trail. Originally Kalamazoo & South Haven Railroad, needs start/end_date and railway/abandonded tags
Kiwanis Trail		9768483 9768483	Adrian to Tecumseh				Need last operator and start/end date for operations
Leelanau Trail	Chesapeake and Ohio Railway	281863 281863	Traverse City to Suttons Bay	1903			Originally Traverse City, Leelanau & Manistique Railroad, owned by Leelanau Transit Co., last operated as Leelanau Scenic Railroad in the 1990's?
Snowmobile Trail No. 37		13212029 13212029	Mesick to Thompsonville
Van Buren Trail	Pere Marquette Railroad	6138837 6138837	Hartford to South Haven				Built by Toledo & South Haven Railroad, part of PM's Paw Paw Branch
West Bloomfield Trail		272123 272123	West Bloomfield-Commerce township limits east to Sylvan Lake
White Pine Trail State Park		273878 273878	Grand Rapids north to Cadillac, Michigan			Reviewed by pkoby	Regional hiking, bicycle trail. Colinear with Relation: North Country National Scenic Trail (MI) 11140515 11140515

Disused lines

Lines, expressed as route=railway relations, that don't have regular traffic but with all infrastructure in place. Tracks are tagged railway=disused. There are many minor spurs listed as disused, for now major segments are listed below:

Name	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Wells and Channing	5941142 5941142	Wells to Channing	No	Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad

Abandoned lines

Former railroad lines, whether still visible on the ground or not, correctly expressed as route=railway relations. Ways are usually tagged railway=abandoned, occasionally railway=disused or rarely railway=razed.

Name	`old_railway_operator=*`	Relation	Route	`start_date=*`	`end_date=*`	TIGER Review	Notes
Barryton Branch	Pere Marquette Railroad	13226657 13226657	Mecosta to Barryton	1893	1943	Not from TIGER	Digitized from USGS 3DEP data
Chicago Kalamazoo & Saginaw Railroad		13060734 13060734	Woodbury to Hastings, MI	1889	1937	Not from TIGER	Digitized from USGS 3DEP data
Chicago Kalamazoo & Saginaw Railroad		13107181 13107181	Hastings to Richland Junction	1888	1942	Not in TIGER	Digitized from USGS 3DEP data
Chippewa Branch	Pere Marquette Railroad	13226780 13226780	Chippewa Lake to Rodney	1883	1906	Not from TIGER	Digitized from USGS 3DEP data
Cisco Lake Branch	Chicago & North Western RR	13212488 13212488	Stickley to Cisco Lake			Not in TIGER	Digitized from USGS 3DEP data
Edmore to Remus	Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad	13226421 13226421	Edmore to Remus	1880	1980	No	Originally built by Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad
Elk Rapids Branch	Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad	13211266 13211266	Williamsburg to Elk Rapids	1892	1979	Partial	Former C&O Railroad branch
Hamilton Subdivision	Pere Marquette Railroad	13232538 13232538	Hamilton to Allegan			Yes
Ionia to Belding		13231944 13231944	Ionia to Belding (Kidd/Kiddville)	1870	1942	Not from TIGER	Needs last railway operator field entered
Lake Shore & Southern Railway	New York Central	13406022 13406022	Adrian to Osseo			Yes	Needs dates entered, continues on as Baw Beese Trail 9768475 9768475
Paw Paw Railroad	Pere Marquette Railroad	13232539 13232539	Paw Paw to Lawton			Not from TIGER	Digitized from USGS 3DEP data
Petoskey Branch	Chesapeake & Ohio	13211364 13211364	Williamsburg to Petoskey		1982	Partial
Remus to Big Rapids	Pere Marquette Railroad	13226779 13226779	Remus to Big Rapids	1880	1943	No	Originally built by Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad
Stanton Branch		13231945 13231945	Ionia (Stanton Junction/Haynor) to Stanton	1872	1933	Not from TIGER	Needs last railroad operator field entered, originally Ionia, Stanton and Northern Railroad
Traverse City, Leelanau & Manistique Railroad	Leelanau Transit Company	13211030 13211030	Suttons Bay to Northport	1903	1960s?	No	Abandonment date is unclear, GR&I ended rail service in 1914 but rails taken up in 1960s? Once served a rail ferry to Manistique, MI
Weidman Branch	Pere Marquette Railroad	13226422 13226422	Remus to Weidman	1884	1944	Not from TIGER	Digitized from USGS 3DEP data
West Michigan Railroad		13232540 13232540	Lawrence to Paw Paw			Yes

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