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 ...

OTSEGO COUNTY — Although the logging industry flourished in Northern Michigan in the late 1800s, by 1917 it was all but over leaving behind logging villages that started dying as quickly as they had ...

Excerpted from “Reminiscences of Michigan’s Logging Days” by Willis C. Ward, son of legendary Northern Michigan lumberman David Ward, who owned and logged vast tracts of forest west of Frederic. My ...

There are 34 confirmed sites in Michigan linked to the Underground Railroad, and likely many more unofficial sites that aided in the network to help enslaved people seek freedom. Michigan was often a ...

The freight rail industry is a significant economic enabler in Detroit and the entire state of Michigan. “Rail has long played an outside role in moving Michigan’s auto industry, from the early 1900s ...

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 ...