Great Lakes Central Railroad

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The Great Lakes Central Railroad is a Class II regional railroad, originally called the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway was formed on August 26, 1977 to operate over former Penn Central lines from Millington to Munger, Michigan, and Vassar to Colling, Michigan.

Its name was derived from the three Michigan counties it operated in: Tuscola, Saginaw and Bay.

In October 1982, the Michigan Department of Transportation contracted the TSBY to operate the former Ann Arbor Railroad line from Osmer siding just north of Ann Arbor to Alma, Michigan.

On October 1, 1984, MDOT cancelled its contract with the Michigan Northern Railway and the TSBY assumed operation of the rest of the Ann Arbor Railroad mainline from Alma to Thompsonville, former Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway trackage from Reed City to Petoskey and Walton to Traverse City and former Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from Grawn to Williamsburg.