Time Line - 2024

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• March. The Port of Monroe in Monroe County receives $16 million from state and federal funding to dredge deeper access channels and acquire modern handling equipment with a goal of becoming Michigan's first container terminal.
• Spring. CSX receives a $5 million grant to improve their Livernois Yard intermodal facility. The grant will improve equipment, rail and roads.[MRC-2024-4]
• July. Lake State Railway begins unloading multi-level automobile cars for the Ford Motor Company at Gaylord. These vehicles will be transloaded to trucks for delivery to Ford dealers in northern Michigan.
• August 25. The final two NS Triple Crown RoadRailers operated tonight between Detroit and Kansas City.
• October: Work begins on replacing the Lake State's Alabaster Branch, which hasn't been regularly used in about 20 years. The gypsum mine in Alabaster intends to ship out by rail which was the reason the line is being completely rebuilt.
• October: The National New York Central Railroad Museum in Elkhart announces a partnership with the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical City to rebuild the NYC 3001 steam locomotive. Pending successful fundraising efforts, No. 3001 will be the only operating New York Central steam locomotive in the world. It will run over former New York Central trackage, pulling former New York Central passenger cars, between restored New York Central stations as part of the Indiana Rail Experience. The locomotive is a 4-8-2 Mohawk of the L3a class. It was built by ALCO in 1940 and retired in 1953.
• November. The CN begins rebuilding the former PO&N branch to Lake Orion to serve industry near the town. The line hasn't seen rail traffic in over five years.
• November 24. A Lake State grain train, from Breckenridge via Paines, derails at Court Street, sending several cars into the Saginaw River spilling corn.

• No general entries.

Time line Key:

• Railroad event in Michigan
• Event relating to mining
• Event related to car ferries
• Event outside of Michigan
• Improvement in Technology
• Railroad built or extended
• Railroad abandoned and/or removed
• Economic panic or depression