Saginaw Bay Southern Railway

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Saginaw Bay Southern Railway
Reporting mark SBS
Locale Michigan
Dates of operation20052012
Predecessorformer CSX Transportation lines
Successor Lake State Railway
Track gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Headquarters Saginaw, Michigan

Saginaw Bay Southern (reporting marks SBS) was a shortline railroad operating in the lower peninsula of Michigan. [1] The railroad was a subsidiary of Lake State Railway until the two companies merged in 2012. [2] It interchanged with CSX Transportation in Mount Morris, Michigan, the Huron and Eastern Railway in Saginaw, Michigan and Midland, Michigan and the Mid-Michigan Railroad in Paines, Michigan.

Lake State Railway

Lake State Railway is a railroad operating in the Saginaw Valley and northeastern quadrant of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The railroad moves large quantities of aggregate and limestone, as well as coal, grain, and chemical products. Some of the company's largest customers include Dow Chemical Company, S. C. Johnson & Son, Lafarge, ConAgra Foods, Archer Daniels Midland, Conrad Yelvington Distributors, and Consumers Energy.

CSX Transportation Class I railway system in the United States of America

CSX Transportation is a Class I freight railroad operating in the eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles (34,000 km) of track. The company operates as a subsidiary of CSX Corporation, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.

Mount Morris, Michigan City in Michigan, United States

Mount Morris is a city in Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,086 at the 2010 census. The city is within the Mount Morris Township survey area, but is politically independent. It was named after Mount Morris, New York, because many of the early settlers had come from there.

On October 29, 2005, Saginaw Bay Southern began leasing over 67 miles of CSX Transportation trackage. [3] The routes taken over from CSX include the Dean Subdivision (Saginaw to Midland), the Bay City Subdivision (Saginaw to Bay City), and the Saginaw Subdivision from Mount Morris to Saginaw.

In late 2011, it was announced that the SBS will be merged with Lake State, with LSRC being the surviving company. [2] The merger was strictly for railway accounting purposes. Following the news of the merger, Lake State has stopped painting the Saginaw Bay Southern logo on its locomotives. Lake State now operates the railroad as "Lake State Railway doing business as Saginaw Bay Southern Railway". [2]

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References

  1. "Employer Status Determination" . Retrieved 2009-04-29.
  2. 1 2 3 Lake State Railway Company-Intra-Corporate Family Merger Exemption-Saginaw Bay Southern Railway Company US Surface Transportation Board, December 2, 2011
  3. "About Saginaw Bay Southern". Archived from the original on March 10, 2007. Retrieved 2009-08-20.