Adrian and Blissfield Rail Road
The Adrian and Blissfield Rail Road Company (reporting mark ADBF) is a Class III short line railroad which operates 20 miles (32 km) of railroad track between Adrian and Riga, in Lenawee County, Michigan. It was incorporated February 6, 1991, with company headquarters in Westland, Michigan. It also operates Lapeer Industrial Railroad, Charlotte Southern Railroad, Detroit Connecting Railroad, and Jackson and Lansing Railroad.
ADBF's railroad line is one of the oldest operating in the United States, having been originally built in 1834 by the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad.
ADBF also operates a dinner train known as "The Old Road Dinner Train" in Blissfield, and a sister company operates in Charlotte.
Fleet
The ADBF fleet, as of January 2021, consists of the following 7 locomotives:[1]
Number | Type | Built |
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41 | GE 44 Ton | 1956 |
1751-1752, 1755, 1758-1760 | EMD GP9 | 1955-1957 |
References
- ^ "Adrian & Blissfield". www.thedieselshop.us. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- Meints, Graydon M. (1992). Michigan Railroads and Railroad Companies. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87013-318-3.
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20061101183153/http://www.railroadmichigan.com/adrianblissfield.html
- http://www.abrailroad.com
- https://web.archive.org/web/20130624081154/http://www.murdermysterytrain.com/blissfield_train.php
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- Charlotte Southern Railroad
- Canadian National
- Coopersville & Marne Railway
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- Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad
- Grand Elk Railroad
- Great Lakes Central Railroad
- Grand Rapids Eastern Railroad
- Grand Trunk Western Railroad
- Hamilton Northwestern Railroad
- Huron & Eastern Railway
- Indiana Northeastern Railroad
- Indiana and Ohio Railway
- Jackson & Lansing Railroad
- Lapeer Industrial Railroad
- Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad
- Lake State Railway
- Mid-Michigan Railroad
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- Lake Linden & Torch Lake Railroad
- Little River Railroad
- Michigan Transit Museum
- Quincy & Torch Lake Cog Railway
- Southern Michigan Railroad Society
- Steam Railroading Institute
- Weiser Railroad
- See also: History of railroads in Michigan
- Former carriers in Michigan
- List of United States railroads by political division
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