Early last fall, on a Thursday morning just before sunrise, a 13,000-ton freight train with hazardous material on board was traveling south along the Grand Trunk Western railroad through Warren when a ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — West Michigan Railroad Company received up to $8.7 million to fund infrastructure improvements to approximately 10 miles of West Michigan Railroad (WMR) in Southwest Michigan, ...

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 ...

TECUMSEH — President of the Southern Michigan Railroad Society Mark Beekel made waves last week about a potential railroad easement on the former Tecumseh Products site, which the county commission ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Transportation recently announced the first round of recipients for the new 2023 Michigan Rail Enhancement Grant Program (M-REP) that will invest ...

Michigan Senate Democrats are working to put more regulations in place for the state’s roughly 3,600 miles of railways as a way to increase public safety after numerous reports of blocked traffic and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...