Flint River Railroad

The Flint River Railroad is a defunct railroad. It was established on December 6, 1871 to construct a 14.4-mile (23.2 km) branch from Horton to Otter Lake to support the logging industry in the Flint River area. This line was opened on October 8, 1872, and the company was consolidated with the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad (F&PM). In 1881 the F&PM extended this line 5.2 miles (8.4 km) to Fostoria.^[1]

The successor to the F&PM, the Pere Marquette Railway, abandoned the segment between Fostoria and Otisville, a distance of 9.8 miles (15.8 km), in 1933. The C&O abandoned the remainder in 1972.^[2] A section of the line is now operated by the heritage Huckleberry Railroad.^[3]

Notes

↑ Michigan Railroad Commission (1896), xxiii; Meints (2005), 386.
↑ Meints (2005), 386-387.
↑ "The Huckleberry Railroad". Huckleberry Railroad at Crossroads Village. Archived from the original on December 22, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-31.

References

Meints, Graydon M. (2005). Michigan Railroad Lines. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 0870136933. OCLC 53124319.
Michigan Railroad Commission (1896). Annual Report.

Constituent companies of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad

1868	Flint and Holly Railroad

1872	Bay City and East Saginaw Rail Road Flint River Railroad Holly, Wayne and Monroe Railway Cass River Railroad

1889	East Saginaw and St. Clair Railroad Saginaw and Mount Pleasant Railroad Manistee Railroad Saginaw and Clare County Railroad Port Huron and Northwestern Railway

1897	Monroe and Toledo Railway

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