The Grand Rapids, Lansing and Detroit Railroad is a defunct, nineteenth century railroad, formerly operating in

Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...

. Incorporated May 17, 1887, it built a 53-mile line from

Grand Rapids, Michigan Grand Rapids is a city and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 198,917 which ranks it as the List of municipalities in Mi ...

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, as well as the

Ramona Branch The Ramona Branch was a railroad branch line in Kent County, Michigan. First placed in service in August, 1888, it ran starting from its connection at its western end with the Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad (now a CN line) at Oakdale Par ...

, both of which it leased to the

Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad The Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad (DL&N) is a defunct railroad which was formed on December 27, 1876 as a reorganization of the foreclosed Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan Rail Road. The segment of its main line from Detroit to Lansing ...

. The former still exists as part of the

Canadian National Railway The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN i ...

line into Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grand Rapids Lansing Detroit Railroad Defunct Michigan railroads Railway companies established in 1887 Railway companies disestablished in 1897 Predecessors of the Pere Marquette Railway