The Flint River Railroad is a defunct railroad. It was established on December 6, 1871, to construct a

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from

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to Otter Lake to support the logging industry in the

Flint River The Flint River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 15, 2011 river in the U.S. state of Georgia. The river drains of western Georgia, flowing south from the u ...

area. This line was opened on October 8, 1872, and the company was consolidated with the

Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad The Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad (F&PM) is a defunct railroad which operated in the U.S. state of Michigan between 1857 and 1899. It was one of the three companies which merged to become the Pere Marquette Railway. Early history The F&PM was c ...

(F&PM). In 1881 the F&PM extended this line to Fostoria. The successor to the F&PM, the

Pere Marquette Railway The Pere Marquette Railway operated in the Great Lakes region of the United States and southern parts of Ontario in Canada. It had trackage in the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and the Canadian province of Ontario. Its primary connections in ...

, abandoned the segment between Fostoria and Otisville, a distance of , in 1933. The C&O abandoned the remainder in 1972. A section of the line is now operated by the

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Huckleberry Railroad.

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* * Railway companies established in 1871 Railway companies disestablished in 1872 Transportation in Genesee County, Michigan Defunct Michigan railroads Predecessors of the Pere Marquette Railway {{US-rail-company-stub