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Ann Arbor Railroad




  Logo Filename Ann Arborgif
  Logo Size 100
  System Map AnnArborRailroadMappng
  Map Size 200px
  Marks AA
  Locale Michigan and Ohio
  Start Year 1878
  End Year present


The Ann Arbor Railroad , 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 .


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