Wyandotte Terminal Railroad

[1][2] Wyandotte Terminal Railroad was originally created and owned by Michigan Alkali, a producer of an ingredient in the making of soda ash and other sodium-based products, to provide railroad switching services to its two plants located about four miles from each other on the Detroit River in Wyandotte, Michigan, United States of America.

Leaving the South Plant, this train would run on about a mile of its own trackage to the Detroit Toledo & Ironton Railroad’s (“DT&I”) Ford Yard located at the extreme south end of the City of Wyandotte to interchange freight cars with DT&I and Wyandotte Southern Railroad.

Wyandotte Terminal Railroad kept additional locomotives at each of its two plants to perform the intra-plant switching.

At some point a fifth diesel locomotive switcher, a General Electric 65 –tonner, was obtained from its parent, Michigan Alkali.

Around this time Wyandotte Terminal Railroad began to repaint its locomotives in an orange with black striping paint scheme.

[3] Wyandotte Terminal Railroad filed papers in the State of Michigan to legally dissolve its corporate existence on March 28, 1983.