The Michigan Southern Railroad , founded in 1989 and owned by
Pioneer Railcorp
Pioneer Lines (formerly Pioneer Railcorp) is a holding company for a number of American short-line railroads. Other subsidiaries offer locomotive and freight car leasing to its own railroads and to third parties, and also freight car cleaning. Pio ...
since 1999,
operates a portion of the former
Michigan Southern Railroad (1846-1855)
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, established in 1833 and sometimes referred to as the Lake Shore, was a major part of the New York Central Railroad's Water Level Route from Buffalo, New York, to Chicago, Illinois, primarily along the ...
between
White Pigeon and
Sturgis, Michigan
Sturgis is a city in St. Joseph County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,994 at the 2010 census. The city is located at the northeast corner of Sturgis Township and at the intersection of US 12 and M-66. Sturgis is just nor ...
, United States. At White Pigeon, the line connects with the
Grand Elk. Until 2012, the line connected with the
Indiana Northeastern Railroad
The Indiana Northeastern Railroad is a Class III short line freight railroad operating on nearly in southern lower Michigan, northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio. The Indiana Northeastern Railroad Company began operations in December 1992 and ...
in Sturgis, when Indiana Northeastern abandoned a portion of their line between
Batavia
Batavia may refer to:
Historical places
* Batavia (region), a land inhabited by the Batavian people during the Roman Empire, today part of the Netherlands
* Batavia, Dutch East Indies, present-day Jakarta, the former capital of the Dutch East In ...
and Sturgis.
The main commodities hauled on the line include scrap, paper, coal, lumber, sand, and soybean oil.
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Michigan Southern Railroad (1989)
Companies operating former New York Central Railroad lines
Michigan railroads
Pioneer Lines
Railway companies established in 1989
Spin-offs of Conrail
Switching and terminal railroads