Michigan Star Clipper Dinner Train

On December 31, 2008, the operators of the dinner train announced that they would be shutting down the route due to poor ridership and increased costs in fuel and other various expenses.

However, Jack Haley's corporation was saddled with a huge amount of debt and overhead, and into the second year of operation, they began to fall behind in their payments to the KLS&C.

Sensing something was up, and not for the good of the Railway, the owners tried to purchase the Star Clipper away from the Haley group, but were unable to persuade a majority investor to go along with them.

In fact, the Star Clipper was able to "claw back" tens of thousands of dollars that it had paid to the KLS&C, as they were payments for services rendered in the past, not contemporary or current.

As soon as the knowledge of this transaction took place, the owners of the KLS&C Railway began making plans to find replacement equipment to operate another dinner train over their railroad, as the concept had proven itself.

In 2006, the Star Clipper Dinner Train was sold to Railmark Holdings, who increased and expanded both its programming and advertising in order to meet an ever changing and diverse ridership demographic in a world of internet communications.

The meals started off with a house salad, and all of the dinners came with bread and the chef's specialty honey butter, fresh brewed coffee, hot tea, and water.

Due to increasingly poor ticket sales, the Star Clipper's owner, railroad industry veteran B. Allen Brown, decided to cease railway operations.