Charlotte Southern Railroad

4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gaugeLength3.25 miles

Charlotte Southern Rail Road is a short line railroad operating in Michigan.^[1] It connects Charlotte, Michigan, with the CN rail system. It is a freight system, but its main customer has not received rail traffic since the early 2000s. It is operated by the Adrian and Blissfield Rail Road Company.

Dinner Train

The railroad hosts the Old Road Dinner train.^[2]

Equipment

The railroad uses a GE 44-ton switcher for the Old Road Dinner train and any freight operations. This locomotive was the last 44-ton locomotive ever built. The railroad uses three passenger cars for the dinner train, and has two more stored at the end of the line.

References

^ "Employer Status Determination" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-09-20. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
^ "Old Road Dinner Train Blissfield, MI & Charlotte, MI Offer Valentine's Day Trains 2/13 & 2/14". Reuters. January 28, 2009. Archived from the original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2009.