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The , historically, was an (in 3 discontinuous sections), and the trackage around the now-demolished Cherry Street Station in Toledo.
The contemporary Ann Arbor hauls a variety of cargoes but much of its traffic is related to the automobile industry. Its primary cargoes include outbound finished vehicles from
DaimlerChrysler 's
Toledo North Assembly (Jeep) Plant ; inbound finished Ford vehicles to a distribution lot in North Toledo; inbound vehicles to a new (2006) distribution lot off Manhattan Boulevard in North Toledo; outbound vehicle transmissions from
GM Powertrain in Toledo; auto parts from
Visteon in
Saline, Mich. ; foundry sand interchanged from the Great Lakes Central at Ann Arbor (Osmer), Mich., and forwarded to other railroads at Toledo -- primarily onto NS for delivery to the
Ford engine plant in
Brook Park, Ohio ; outbound cement from
Holcim near
Dundee, Mich. ; and grain trains received in interchange from GLC and delivered to
CSX at Toledo.
Its current locomotive fleet comprises three
Electro-Motive GP38 models (AA7771, 7791, 7802) of
Conrail ancestry and two
GP39-2 models (AA2368 and 2373) acquired from the
Union Pacific .
The Ann Arbor also operated a subsidiary, the
Manistique And Lake Superior Railroad (M&LS), for many years until the M&LS was abandoned in
1968 .