The Saginaw and Mount Pleasant Railroad was a wholly owned subsidiary of 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). It was established to construct a railway line from a junction with the F&PM main line at Coleman, Michigan, to Mount Pleasant, Michigan. The line opened on December 15, 1879, as a narrow gauge line. In mid-1884 the line was converted to . On January 31, 1889 the company was formally merged into the F&PM along with the

East Saginaw and St. Clair Railroad The East Saginaw and St. Clair Railroad was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad (F&PM). It was established in 1872 to construct a branch from the company's main line in East Saginaw, Michigan through The Thumb to Port ...

, the Saginaw and Clare County Railroad, and the

Manistee Railroad The Manistee Railroad in Michigan was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad (F&PM). It was established on June 19, 1880, to construct a branch line A branch line is a phrase used in railway terminology to denote a ...

. In 1979 the C&O abandoned the line.

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Interactive map of the Saginaw and Mount Pleasant Railroad.
Railway companies established in 1879 Railway companies disestablished in 1889 Defunct Michigan railroads Narrow gauge railroads in Michigan Predecessors of the Pere Marquette Railway Transportation in Isabella County, Michigan Transportation in Midland County, Michigan 3 ft gauge railways in the United States Standard gauge railways in the United States {{US-rail-transport-stub