The Lincoln Secondary is a railroad line owned and operated by Conrail in the U.S. state of Michigan as part of its Conrail Shared Assets Operations.
The line runs from Carleton northeast to Detroit along a former Pennsylvania Railroad line. Its south end is at the CSX Transportation Saginaw Subdivision, and it mainly serves CSX trains from the south (via Toledo, Ohio) to Detroit. Its north end is at the Ecorse Junction/River Rouge area, where it meets the Conrail Junction Yard Secondary and Norfolk Southern Railway Detroit District.Trackside Guide No. 3 - Detroit, Trains, June 2003
History The Pennsylvania Railroad did not have access to Detroit until 1901, when it acquired trackage rights from Toledo over the Michigan Central Railroad and New York Central and Hudson River Railroad (now the Norfolk Southern Detroit Line). , March 2005 Edition However, these rights were cancelled in 1904. , March 2005 Edition The Pennsylvania–Detroit Railroad was incorporated in 1917 to build a line to Detroit. , June 2004 Edition The PRR began building the line, but construction stopped in 1918 because of World War I and the takeover of the national rail system by the United States Railroad Administration. , June 2004 Edition
On May 23, 1920, the PRR began operating passenger trains between Toledo and Detroit, using trackage rights over the Ann Arbor Railroad from the end of PRR trackage near Galena Street in Toledo to Alexis, the Pere Marquette Railway (now CSX Toledo Terminal Subdivision and Saginaw Subdivision) from Alexis past Carleton to Romulus, the Wabash Railway (now NS Detroit District) from Romulus via Ecorse to Delray, and the Detroit Union Railroad Depot and Station Company (now CSX Detroit Subdivision) to the Fort Street Union Depot. , June 2004 Edition
Work on the Pennsylvania–Detroit Railroad, between Carleton and Ecorse, resumed and was completed in 1922; , June 2004 Edition the PRR leased it on January 1, 1923. , June 2004 Edition The P-D merged into the Pennsylvania, Ohio and Detroit Railroad, a PRR subsidiary, on January 1, 1926., June 2004 Edition The PO&D merged into the Connecting Railway in 1956, , December 2004 Edition and was taken over directly by Conrail in 1976.1975 Conrail Final System Plan In the 1999 breakup, it remained part of Conrail's Detroit Shared Assets Area.
References
External links Conrail Detroit Shared Asset Area: Lincoln Secondary