View source for Michigan Customers (CN)

* By Subdivison (Alphabetical) Then Town (West to East, Then North to South)
* Active Railroad Interchanges included, add "Railroad Interchange" as a "note"
* If the Customer is not on the main line/siding, note it as such. For example, Padnos in Holland is on the Dock Track. 
* Active Customers Only (Shipping within the last 2 years)
*Includes Dearborn, Flat Rock, Flint, Hogan Line, Holly, Iron Mountain, Ishpeming, Kalamazoo Branch, L'Anse, Manistique, Marinette, Mount Clemens, Newberry, Ore, Pembine, Republic, Shore Line, South Bend, Strathroy, and White Pine Subdivisions. 

*This site was extremely helpful in the creation of these lists: http://www.cnrha.ca/node/986

== Dearborn Subdivision ==
*Runs from D&I Jct. (Woodhaven) to Rouge Yard (Dearborn).
====Interchanges====
*Interchanges with Conrail Shared Assets, CSX, and Norfolk Southern at Dearborn. 
====Customers====
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! Location
! Customer
! Company Description	
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
|-
|Dearborn
|Ford River Rouge Complex (Dearborn Truck Plant)
|Vehicle Loading/Auto Parts/Vehicle Frames	
|Autoracks/Boxcars/Flatcars	
|
|-
|Dearborn
|AK Steel
|Steel Mill
|Flatcars/Hoppers/Gondolas
|
|-
|Dearborn
|Cordin Transport/Axis-CT Services Auto Ramps
|Vehicle Loading
|Autoracks
|
|-
|Taylor
|Worthington Steel
|Steel Warehouse
|Flatcars
|
|-
|Brownstown Charter Twp.
|Spencer//Butcher Group
|Warehouse
|Boxcars
| 
|-
|Woodhaven
|Autoport Limited
|Vehicle Loading
|Autoracks
|
|-
|Woodhaven
|Ford Woodhaven Stamping Plant
|Auto Parts Manufacturer
|Boxcars
|Currently inactive.
|-
|Woodhaven
|Buckeye Terminals
|Chemical Supplier
|Tank Cars
|
|-
|}
|}

== Flat Rock Subdivision ==
*Runs from Diann Jct. to Shortcut Bridge on River Rouge.
====Interchanges====
*Interchanges with Ann Arbor Railroad at Diann Jct., MI.
*Interchanges with Indiana & Ohio Railroad at Flat Rock
*Interchanges with Conrail Shared Assets and Norfolk Southern at Trenton.
*Connection with Delray Connecting Railroad at River Rouge.

====Customers====
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! Location
! Customer
! Company Description	
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
|-
|Diann Jct.
|[[Ann Arbor Railroad (1988)|Ann Arbor Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Various
|
|-
|Flat Rock
|Flat Rock Bagging
|Sand Products and Landscape Materials
|Covered Hoppers
|
|-
|Flat Rock
|Fuel Transload
|Aviation Fuel
|Tank Cars
|Loading is done at Flat Rock Yard.
|-
|Flat Rock
|[[Indiana & Ohio|Indiana & Ohio Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Various
|
|-
|Flat Rock
|Flat Rock Auto Ramps
|Vehicle Loading
|Autoracks
| 
|-
|Flat Rock
|Ford Flat Rock Assembly
|Vehicle Loading
|Autoracks
| 
|-
|Trenton
|Fort St. Steel Staging Area
|Steel Loading
|Flatcars
|Active shipper? Company name unknown.
|-
|Wyandotte	
|Metro International Trade
|Warehousing	
|Boxcars
|Building listed for sale in 2018. Active shipper?
|-	
|Ecorse	
|Nicholson Terminal & Dock
|Shipyard/Warehousing	
|Boxcars/Flatcars
|
|-
|}
|}

== Flint Subdivision ==
*Runs from Battle Creek (Emmett Street) to Port Huron (Tappan).

====Interchanges==== 
*Interchanges with Charlotte Southern Railroad at Charlotte, MI. (Inactive).
*Interchanges with Jackson & Lansing Railroad at Lansing, MI. 
*Interchanges with Huron & Eastern Railroad and Great Lakes Central Railroad at Durand, MI.
*Interchanges with Lake State Railroad at Flint, Michigan.
*Interchanges with Lapeer Industrial Railroad at Lapeer, MI.
*Interchanges with CSX and LSRC at Port Huron, MI
====Customers====

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! Location
! Customer
! Company Description
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
|-
|Battle Creek
|Padnos
|Scrap Metal Recycling
|Gondolas/Misc. Railcars
|Accessed via spur from BC Yard.
|-
|Battle Creek
|WK Kellogg Co	
|Breakfast Cereals
|Covered Hoppers 
|Served jointly with NS. Accessed via spur from BC Yard. Formerly Kellogg's.
|-
|Charlotte
|[[Charlotte Southern Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Various
|Inactive.  
|-
|Potterville
|Citizens Elevator
|Chemical & Fertilizer Transload 
|Tank Cars
| 
|-
|Delta Township 
|GM Lansing Delta Assembly 
|Vehicle Ramps
|Autoracks
| 
|-
|Lansing  
|Lansing Asphalt Terminal
|Asphalt Terminal
|Tank Cars
|For Rieth-Riley.
|-
|Lansing  
|Biewer Lumber
|Lumber Products
|Centerbeam Flatcars/Boxcars
|
|-
|Lansing  
|Land O'Lakes-Purina
|Animal Feed Mill 
|Covered Hoppers
|
|-
|Lansing  
|UFP Industries
|Lumber Products
|Centerbeam Flatcars
|
|-
|Lansing
|[[Jackson & Lansing Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Steel Coil Cars/Tank Cars/Boxcars/Gondolas/Various
|  
|-
|Durand
|[[Huron & Eastern|Huron & Eastern Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Various
|  
|-
|Durand
|[[Great Lakes Central|Great Lakes Central Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Various
|  
|-
|Swartz Creek
|GM CCA Parts Division 
|Automobile Parts
|Boxcars
|5 day a week switch
|-
|Flint
|GM Flint Assembly 
|Vehicle Loading/Vehicle Frames
|Autoracks/Flatcars
|
|-
|Flint
|[[Lake State Railway]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Various
|  
|-
|Flint
|Michigan Timber & Truss 
|Lumber & Truss Manufacturer
|Centerbeam Flatcars
|
|-
|Lapeer
|[[Lapeer Industrial Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Covered Hoppers
|  
|-
|}
|}

== Holly Subdivision ==
*Runs from Durand to Detroit (Milwaukee Jct.).

====Interchanges====
*Interchanges with Huron & Eastern Railroad and Great Lakes Central Railroad at Durand, MI.
====Customers====
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! Customer
! Company Description	
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
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|Durand
|[[Huron & Eastern|Huron & Eastern Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Various
|  
|-
|Durand
|[[Great Lakes Central|Great Lakes Central Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Various
|  
|-
|Waterford Township 
|Red Lava
|Hardscape Contractor
|Open-Top Hoppers
|
|-
|Waterford Township 
|TTX Draco Division 
|Railcar Repair, Overhaul and Scrapping 
|Flatcars/Autoracks
|
|-
|Auburn Hills
|Ferrous Processing & Trading 
|Scrapyard
|Gondolas
|Located along the remains of the Cass City Subdivision. 
|-
|Pontiac 
|Bolyard Lumber/Lumber Transload
|Lumber Yard
|Centerbeam Flatcars
|Located along the remains of the Cass City Subdivision. 
|-
|Pontiac 
|GM Pontiac Stamping
|Automobile Parts
|Boxcars
|Located along the remains of the Cass City Subdivision. 
Inactive since September, 2021.
|-
|Pontiac 
|Lee Industrial
|Specialty Transportation Service
|Flatcars/Gondolas
|Located in the GTW Pontiac Car Repair Shop
|-
|Pontiac 
|Inland Plywood
|Lumber Products
|Boxcars
|
|-
|Royal Oak
|GFL Environmental Recycling
|Recycled Paper
|Boxcars
|
|-
|Ferndale
|Bond Plywood
|Lumber Products
|Boxcars
|
|-
|Ferndale
|Gage Products
|Chemical Recycling 
|Tank Cars
|
|-
|Detroit
|All America Plywood
|Lumber
|Boxcars
|
|-
|Highland Park
|Metro International Trade Services
|Warehousing & Logistic Services
|Boxcars
|
|-
|Hamtramck
|Sterling Oil 
|Oil Terminal
|Tank Cars
|
|-
|}
|}

== Iron Mountain Subdivision ==
*Runs from Iron Mountain to Powers.
====Customers====
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! Customer
! Company Description	
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
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|Quinnesec
|Billerud
|Graphic Paper & Pulp Products
|Boxcars/Tank Cars/Pulpwood Flatcars/Covered Hoppers
| 
|-
|}
|}

== Ishpeming Subdivision ==
*Runs from Landing Jct. to Winthrop Jct. in Ishpeming.
*Has joint trackage rights with LS&I and Mineral Range in Euclid Yard.
*Has trackage rights over the Mineral Range between Landing Jct. and Humboldt Junction.
====Interchanges====
*Interchanges with Mineral Range Railroad at both Winthrop Jct. and Euclid Yard in Ishpeming.
====Customers====

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! Customer
! Company Description	
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
|-
|Ishpeming
|[[Mineral Range|Mineral Range Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Closed-Top Gondolas/Gondolas/Tank Cars/Covered Hoppers
|  
|-
|Ishpeming
|Holli Forest Products
|Pulpwood
|Pulpwood Flatcars
|Seasonal?
|-
|}
|}

== Kalamazoo Branch ==
*Part of the South Bend Subdivision.
*Due to the fact this branch is often run independently from the South Bend Local, it has its own list. 
*Branches off from the South Bend Subdivision at Pavilion, and runs north to Arvco in Kalamazoo. 
====Interchanges====
*Interchanges with Grand Elk Railroad in Kalamazoo, MI. 
====Customers====

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! Location
! Customer
! Company Description	
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
|-
|Kalamazoo
|[[Grand Elk|Grand Elk Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Various
|  
|-
|Kalamazoo
|Green Bay Packaging
|Corrugated Packaging	
|Boxcars
|Jointly served with GDLK.
|-
|Kalamazoo
|L.C. Howard Kilgore Rd. Warehouse
|Warehouse & Transload Facility
|Centerbeam Flatcars/Boxcars
|Jointly served with GDLK.
|-
|Kalamazoo
|Pactiv Evergreen
|Thermoformed & Plastic Packaging
|Covered Hoppers
|Formerly Fabri-Kal.
|-
|Kalamazoo
|Allnex
|Industrial Coating Resins & Chemicals	
|Tank Cars
|Jointly served with GDLK.
|-
|Kalamazoo
|L.C. Howard Factory St. Warehouse
|Warehouse
|Boxcars
|
|-
|Kalamazoo
|L.C. Howard Glendenning Rd. Warehouse
|Warehouse
|Boxcars
|
|-
|Kalamazoo
|Arvco Container
|Corrugated Packaging
|Boxcars
|
|-
|}
|}

== L'Anse Subdivision ==
*Runs from Baraga to Humboldt Junction.
*CN has trackage rights on the Mineral Range Railroad from Humboldt Jct. to Euclid Yard (Ishpeming). 
====Interchanges====
*Interchanges with Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad at Nestoria (rarely, if ever, used). 
====Customers====
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! Location
! Customer
! Company Description	
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
|-
|L'Anse
|CertainTeed
|Building and Construction Products
|Covered Hoppers/Boxcars/Tank Cars
|
|-
|L'Anse
|M.A. Energy Resources/L'Anse Warden Electric
|Fuel Yard/Power Plant
|Gondolas/Open-Top Hoppers
|Fuel for the L'Anse Power Plant, typically scrap railroad ties. 
|-
|L'Anse
|Koppers
|Railroad Ties	
|Gondolas/Open-Top Hoppers
|
|-
|L'Anse
|Pulpwood Transload
|Pulpwood
|Pulpwood Flatcars
|Sporadic loading at CertainTeed. 
|-
|Bovine
|Pulpwood Transload (Mead Rd.)
|Pulpwood
|Pulpwood Flatcars
|Sporadic loading  
|-
|Peshekee
|Pulpwood Transload
|Pulpwood
|Pulpwood Flatcars
|Sporadic loading
|-
|}
|}

== Manistique Subdivision ==
*Runs from Gladstone to Sault Ste. Marie (Soo Yard).  
====Interchanges====
*Interchanges with the [[Port Inland Railroad]] at Inland.
* Interchanges with [[Grand Elk|Grand Elk Railroad]] at Trout Lake.

====Customers====

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! Location
! Customer
! Company Description	
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
|-
|Gladstone
|Ferrellgas
|Propane Supplier
|Tank Cars
|
|-
|Ensign
|Billerud Wood Yard
|Pulpwood 
|Pulpwood Flatcars
|Seasonal?
|-
|Manistique
|U.P. Papers
|Paper Mill
|Boxcars
|
|-
|Gulliver
|Bowman Gas & Oil
|Propane Supplier
|Tank Cars
|
|-
|Gulliver
|Zellar Pulpwood Yard
|Pulpwood 
|Pulpwood Flatcars
|
|-
|Port Inland
|[[Port Inland Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Covered Hoppers
|
|-
|Caffey
|Pulpwood Yard
|Pulpwood 
|Pulpwood Flatcars
|
|-
|Trout Lake
|Pulpwood Yard
|Pulpwood 
|Pulpwood Flatcars
|
|-
|Trout Lake
|[[Grand Elk|Grand Elk Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Centerbeam Flatcars/Pulpwood Flatcars/Log Flatcars/Tank Cars/Boxcars/Various	
|  
|-
|Kinross
|Pulpwood Yard
|Pulpwood 
|Pulpwood Flatcars
|
|-
|Kinross
|A&L Iron and Metal
|Scrapyard
|Gondolas
|Active shipper?
|-
|Kinross
|Plains LPG Services
|LPG Supplier
|Tank Car
|On the former Kincheloe AFB spur. 
|-
|Dafter
|Reid Metals
|Scrapyard
|Gondolas
|Active shipper? 
|-
|}
|}

== Marinette Subdivision ==
*Runs from Gladstone, MI to Green Bay, WI.
====Interchanges====
*Interchanges with Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad at Escanaba and Menominee, MI/Marinette, WI.
====Customers====
  
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! Location
! Customer
! Company Description	
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
|-
|Gladstone
|Niagara Logistics
|Warehouse
|Boxcars
|
|-
|Escanaba
|Verso Corporation
|Packaging, Pulp, and Paper Products
|Boxcars/Tank Cars/Covered Hoppers
|Manistique and Ore Subs both have a connection to Verso. 
|-
|Escanaba
|[[Escanaba & Lake Superior|Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Various	
|  
|-
|Menominee
|Resolute Forest Products
|Pulp and Paper Products
|Boxcars
|E&LS only?
|-
|Menominee
|Dunn Paper
|Pulp and Paper Products 
|Boxcars
|E&LS only?
|-
|Menominee/Marinette
|[[Escanaba & Lake Superior|Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Various	
|  
|-
|}
|}

== Mount Clemens Subdivision ==
*Runs from Port Huron (Tappan) to Detroit (Milwaukee Jct.). 
====Interchanges====
*Interchanges with Detroit Connecting Railroad and Conrail Shared Assets in Detroit, MI. 
====Customers====

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! Location
! Customer
! Company Description	
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
|-
|Macomb
|Carter Lumber
|Inbound Lumber 
|Centerbeam Flatcars
|
|-
|Clinton Township
|B&D Drywall Supply
|Inbound Drywall 
|Centerbeam Flatcars
|
|-
|Mt. Clemens
|FCA Warehouse
|Inbound Aluminum Ingots and Outbound Auto Stampings
|Boxcars
|
|-
|Warren 
|Nexeo Solutions
|Inbound Plastics and Resins
|Covered Hoppers
|
|-
|Warren 
|PolyTerm
|Inbound Chemicals, Plastics, and Resins
|Tank Cars
|
|-
|Detroit
|Nolan Distribution
|Inbound Lumber
|Centerbeam Flatcars
|
|-
|Detroit
|Hoover Treated Wood Products
|Inbound Lumber
|Boxcars/Centerbeam Flatcars
|
|-
|Hamtramck
|[[Detroit Connecting Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Tank Cars/Gondolas/Various
|  
|-
|}
|}

== Ore Subdivision (Marquette Range) ==
*Runs from Escanaba (Algoma Jct.) to Partridge (Partridge Jct.). 
====Interchanges====
*Interchanges with Escanaba and Lake Superior in Escanaba, MI.
====Customers====
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! Location
! Customer
! Company Description	
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
|-
|Gwinn
|PotlatchDeltic
|Lumber Mill
|Open-Top Hoppers
|
|-
|Escanaba
|Billerud 
|Paper & Paperboard Products
|Boxcars/Tank Cars/Covered Hoppers
|Ore and Manistique Subs both have a connection to Verso. 
|-
|Escanaba
|Escanaba Lumber Company
|Pulpwood
|Pulpwood Flatcars
|
|-
|Escanaba
|[[Escanaba & Lake Superior|Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Various	
|  
|-
|Escanaba
|C. Reiss Co.
|Coal/Stone Dock 
|Hoppers
|Active Shipper? 
|-
|}
|}

== Pembine Subdivision ==
*Runs from Hermansville, MI to Argonne, WI. 
====Interchanges====
*Interchanges with Escanaba and Lake Superior in Pembine, WI.
====Customers====
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! Location
! Customer
! Company Description	
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
|-
|Hermansville
|Lumber Transload
|Lumber
|Centerbeam Flatcars
|
|-
|}
|}

== Republic Subdivision ==
*Runs from Landing Jct. (Ishpeming) to Diamond Jct. (Eagle Mills).
*Runs on joint trackage with LS&I. 
====Interchanges====
*Interchanges with Lake Superior and Ishpeming in Eagle Mills (Queens SDG).
====Customers====
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! Location
! Customer
! Company Description	
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
|-
|Eagle Mills
|[[Lake Superior & Ishpeming|Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Various	
|  
|-
|}
|}

== Shore Line Subdivision ==
*Runs from Detroit, MI (Milwaukee Jct.) to Toledo, OH.
*West Detroit to River Rouge - CN operates on NS
*Boulevard to Walbridge - CN operates on CSX. CSX rules and timetable govern.
====Interchanges====
*Interchanges with Norfolk Southern, CSX, and Conrail Shared Assets in Detroit/River Rouge.  
*Interchanges with Norfolk Southern and CSX in Toledo, OH.

====Customers====
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! Location
! Customer
! Company Description	
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
|-
|Ecorse	
|Nicholson Terminal & Dock
|Shipyard/Warehousing	
|Boxcars/Other
|
|-
|Wyandotte	
|Metro International Trade
|Warehousing	
|Boxcars
|Building listed for sale in 2018. Active shipper?
|-
|Riverview
|Materials Processing
|Warehousing
|Boxcars
|
|-
|Trenton
|Mans Lumber & Millwork 
|Inbound Lumber 
|Centerbeam Flatcars
|
|-
|Trenton
|Solutia 
|Chemical Company  
|Tank Cars
|
|-
|Rockwood
|U.S. Silica
|Outbound Crushed Aggregate, Limestone & Silica  
|Covered Hoppers
|
|-
|Monroe
|Michigan Paving & Materials
|Asphalt Supplier
|Tank Cars
|
|-
|Monroe
|Ventower Industries
|Wind Turbines
|Flatcars
|Recently reconstructed spur.
|}
|}

== South Bend Subdivision ==
*Runs from Griffith, IN to Battle Creek (Emmett Street).
*See the Kalamazoo Branch listing for CN Kalamazoo customers. 
====Interchanges====
*Interchanges with Grand Elk Railroad in Kalamazoo, MI. 
====Customers====
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! Location
! Customer
! Company Description	
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
|-
|Edwardsburg
|Tri-State Forest Products
|Building Materials
|Centerbeam Flatcars/Boxcars
|
|-
|Edwardsburg
|North American Forest Products
|Lumber & Woods Products
|Centerbeam Flatcars
|
|-
|Edwardsburg
|Building Products
|Building Materials & Millwork Products
|Boxcars/Centerbeam Flatcars
|
|-
|Edwardsburg
|Midwest Timber
|Treated Wood Products
|Centerbeam Flatcars
|
|-
|Vicksburg
|Imerys Perlite
|Perlite & Filtration Minerals
|Covered Hoppers 
|
|-
|Battle Creek
|Post Foods
|Breakfast Cereals
|Covered Hoppers
|Served jointly with NS. 
|}
|}

==Strathroy Subdivision==
*Runs from Port Huron, MI (Tappen) to Blackwell, Ontario.
====Interchanges====
*Interchanges with Lake State Railroad and CSX at Port Huron, MI (Tunnel Yard).
====Customers====
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! Location
! Customer
! Company Description	
! Type of Railcar 
! Notes
|-
|Port Huron
|[[Lake State Railway]]
|Railroad Interchange
|Tank Cars/Boxcars/Various
|  
|-
|}
|}





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