A $30 million investment by the federal government in Michigan’s railroad infrastructure is expected to bolster supply chains and, in turn, create more jobs in urban and rural communities throughout ...

Many Michigan towns find their roots along the railroad tracks that connected people nationwide for nearly a hundred years. And while train traffic isn’t what it once was, the impact of railways can ...

A century-old depot in East Jordan — a quaint city on Lake Charlevoix that recently has been emerging as an Up North vacation destination — is for sale. It received some social media attention after ...

Michigan's railroad history is packed with adventure, innovation, and stories that shaped how people traveled across the state. From steam engines that once chugged through small towns to electric ...

A Pittsburg, Kansas-based railroad equity company this week announced it has agreed to purchase a mid-Michigan regional hauler that runs from Ann Arbor to northern Michigan. Watco Railroad Company ...

An early steam train traveled on tracks at Wapakoneta. The locomotive was most likely part of the Dayton & Michigan Railroad. When Dr. George F. Holbrook came to Wapakoneta in the 1830s, he arrived in ...

CHARLEVOIX — One hundred fifty years ago, on May 17, 1873, Charlevoix Sentinel editor Willard A. Smith reported that “Every boat brings numbers of new settlers for the unoccupied territory in the ...

We know a few stories about the Underground Railroad passing through Michigan, collected from oral histories, journal entries, records of abolitionist magazines and other clues left behind on the path ...

As Laurel Smith sat on the front step of her home on Wall Street in Melvindale, not 20 feet away were children excitedly yelling and playing during recess at adjacent Allendale Elementary School. Only ...

In 19th century Detroit, there was little stigma attached to public speaking. In the days before the arrival of 20th-century mass media, politicians, barkers and buskers often found eager audiences by ...