Great Lakes Central Railroad
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| Reporting mark | GLC |
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| Locale | Michigan |
| Dates of operation | 2006–present |
| Predecessor | Michigan Northern Railway Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
| Length | 400 miles (640 km) |
| Headquarters | Owosso, Michigan |
| Website | www |
The Great Lakes Central Railroad (reporting mark GLC) is a Class II regional railroad, originally called the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway (reporting mark TSBY), that was formed on August 26, 1977 to operate over former Penn Central lines from Millington to Munger, Michigan, and Vassar to Colling, Michigan. Its name was derived from the three Michigan counties it operated in: Tuscola, Saginaw and Bay.
In October 1982, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) contracted the TSBY to operate the former Ann Arbor Railroad line from Osmer siding just north of Ann Arbor to Alma, Michigan. On October 1, 1984, MDOT cancelled its contract with the Michigan Northern Railway and the TSBY assumed operation of the rest of the Ann Arbor Railroad mainline from Alma to Thompsonville, former Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway (GR&I) trackage from Reed City to Petoskey (crossing in Cadillac, Michigan) and Walton to Traverse City and former Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from Grawn to Williamsburg (through Traverse City). The track from Cadillac to was removed in the 1991. On January 22, 1991, the TSBY sold its original lines to the Huron and Eastern Railway, now owned by Genesee & Wyoming. Today the GLC operates former Ann Arbor track from Osmer to Yuma, Michigan (just west of Cadillac), former PRR from Cadillac to Petoskey and Walton to Traverse City, former C&O from Grawn to Williamsburg, former NYC from Owosso to Fergus, and former Grand Trunk Western from Ashley to Middleton. The GLC also operates a small portion of the abandoned CSX (C&O) Ludington Subdivision in Clare, Michigan, to serve a local plastics factory.
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