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27-446: The Great Lakes Central Railroad ( reporting mark GLC ) is an American shortline railroad , operating in the state of Michigan . It was originally called the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway ( reporting mark TSBY ), which was formed on August 26, 1977, to operate over former Penn Central lines from Millington to Munger , and from Vassar to Colling . TSBY's name was derived from

54-674: A 2-digit code indicating the vehicle's register country . The registered keeper of a vehicle is now indicated by a separate Vehicle Keeper Marking (VKM), usually the name of the owning company or an abbreviation thereof, which must be registered with the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) and the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) and which is unique throughout Europe and parts of Asia and Northern Africa. The VKM must be between two and five letters in length and can use any of

81-461: A hyphen. Some examples: When a vehicle is sold it will not normally be transferred to another register. The Czech railways bought large numbers of coaches from ÖBB. The number remained the same but the VKM changed from A-ÖBB to A-ČD. The UIC introduced a uniform numbering system for their members based on a 12-digit number, largely known as UIC number . The third and fourth digit of the number indicated

108-685: A predecessor of the CNW, from which the UP inherited it. Similarly, during the breakup of Conrail , the long-retired marks of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and New York Central Railroad (NYC) were temporarily brought back and applied to much of Conrail's fleet to signify which cars and locomotives were to go to CSX (all cars labeled NYC) and which to Norfolk Southern (all cars labeled PRR). Some of these cars still retain their temporary NYC marks. Because of its size, this list has been split into subpages based on

135-781: A small portion of the abandoned CSX Ludington Subdivision in Clare , to serve a local plastics factory. GLC interchanges with Class I railroads Canadian National in Durand and CSX at Howell , and shortlines Huron and Eastern Railway in Durand and Owosso , the Mid-Michigan Railroad in Alma and the Ann Arbor Railroad at Osmer . Reporting mark In North America , the mark, which consists of an alphabetic code of two to four letters,

162-489: Is stenciled on each piece of equipment, along with a one- to six-digit number. This information is used to uniquely identify every such rail car or locomotive, thus allowing it to be tracked by the railroad it is traveling over, which shares the information with other railroads and customers. In multinational registries, a code indicating the home country may also be included. The Association of American Railroads (AAR) assigns marks to all carriers, under authority granted by

189-417: Is unclear when this post office closed. Early on, the town gained a reputation due to its lack of law enforcement and for being a rowdy and dangerous locale. The community grew as northerly rail traffic to Traverse City and Petoskey increased throughout the 1880s and 1890s. In 1890, the local publisher, DeWitt Clinton Leach, built a dam on a creek southwest of Walton, and established a cranberry bog . The bog

216-726: The Saginaw branch between Vassar and Richville, Michigan . In 1981, it purchased 9.5 miles (15.3 km) of the Saginaw branch between Richville and Harger (near Saginaw, Michigan ), from the Grand Trunk Western Railroad . In October 1982, MDOT selected the TSBY to replace the Michigan Interstate Railway as the designated operator on two lines: the Ann Arbor Railroad main line between Ann Arbor and Alma, Michigan , and on

243-547: The U.S. Surface Transportation Board , Transport Canada , and Mexican Government. Railinc , a subsidiary of the AAR, maintains the active reporting marks for the North American rail industry. Under current practice, the first letter must match the initial letter of the railroad name. As it also acts as a Standard Carrier Alpha Code , the reporting mark cannot conflict with codes in use by other nonrail carriers. Marks ending with

270-504: The 26 letters of the Latin alphabet . Diacritical marks may also be used, but they are ignored in data processing (for example, Ö is treated as though it is O ). The VKM is preceded by the code for the country (according to the alphabetical coding system described in Appendix 4 to the 1949 convention and Article 45(4) of the 1968 convention on road traffic), where the vehicle is registered and

297-523: The Grand Trunk Western. Altogether, the TSBY owned 21.5 miles (34.6 km) of track and operated over a further 472.5 miles (760.4 km) at the end of 1984. The contract for the line between Charlevoix and Bay View ended in 1988; the state abandoned the line in 1991. Train ferry service on the northern end of the former Ann Arbor line had ended in 1982, leaving the line out of service beyond Yuma . The Huron and Eastern Railway replaced TSBY as

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324-737: The Saginaw branch between Owosso and Swan Creek , near Saginaw, Michigan . MDOT transferred the remainder of the ex-Ann Arbor main line from the Michigan Northern Railway to the TSBY in May 1984. MDOT transferred the remainder of the Michigan Northern's state-owned lines to the TSBY in October 1984: In addition, the previous August TSBY acquired 12 miles (19 km) of the Greenville Subdivision , between Ashley and Middleton , from

351-849: The Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway in May 2006. The company was subsequently renamed the Great Lakes Central Railroad. Great Lakes Central Railroad is the largest shortline railroad in the state of Michigan covering 396 miles (637 km) of track. Today the GLC operates former Ann Arbor Railroad track from Ann Arbor to Cadillac , former Pennsylvania Railroad track from Cadillac to Petoskey and Walton to Traverse City , former Chesapeake and Ohio Railway track from Grawn to Williamsburg , former New York Central Railroad track from Owosso to Fergus , and former Grand Trunk Western Railroad track from Ashley to Middleton . The GLC also operates

378-657: The VKM BLS. Example for an "Einheitswagen" delivered in 1957: In the United Kingdom, prior to nationalisation, wagons owned by the major railways were marked with codes of two to four letters, these codes normally being the initials of the railway concerned; for example, wagons of the Great Western Railway were marked "G W"; those of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway were marked "L M S", etc. The codes were agreed between

405-531: The acquiring company discontinues the name or mark of the acquired company, the discontinued mark is referred to as a "fallen flag" railway. Occasionally, long-disused marks are suddenly revived by the companies which now own them. For example, in recent years, the Union Pacific Railroad has begun to use the mark CMO on newly built covered hoppers, gondolas and five-bay coal hoppers. CMO originally belonged to Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway ,

432-475: The designated operator on its original three lines around Vassar in 1991. At the same time, the TSBY sold the 9.5 miles (15.3 km) of the Saginaw branch between Richville and Harger to the Huron and Eastern. The state abandoned the former GR&I main line between Cadillac and Comstock Park in 1991. Also abandoned in 1991 was the Saginaw branch between Chesaning and St. Charles . Federated Railways purchased

459-985: The equipment used in these services. This may also apply to commuter rail, for example Metrolink in Southern California uses the reporting mark SCAX because the equipment is owned by the Southern California Regional Rail Authority —which owns the Metrolink system—even though it is operated by Amtrak. This is why the reporting mark for CSX Transportation , which is an operating railroad, is CSXT instead of CSX. Private (non-common carrier) freight car owners in Mexico were issued, up until around 1990, reporting marks ending in two X's, possibly to signify that their cars followed different regulations (such as bans on friction bearing trucks) than their American counterparts and so their viability for interchange service

486-448: The first letter of the reporting mark: A railway vehicle must be registered in the relevant state's National Vehicle Register (NVR), as part of which process it will be assigned a 12-digit European Vehicle Number (EVN). The EVN schema is essentially the same as that used by the earlier UIC numbering systems for tractive vehicles and wagons , except that it replaces the 2-digit vehicle owner's code (see § Europe 1964 to 2005 ) with

513-575: The letter "X" are assigned to companies or individuals who own railcars, but are not operating railroads; for example, the TTX Company (formerly Trailer Train Company) is named for its original reporting mark of TTX. In another example, the reporting mark for state-funded Amtrak services in California is CDTX (whereas the usual Amtrak mark is AMTK) because the state transportation agency ( Caltrans ) owns

540-557: The owner of a reporting mark is taken over by another company, the old mark becomes the property of the new company. For example, when the Union Pacific Railroad (mark UP) acquired the Chicago and North Western Railway (mark CNW) in 1995, it retained the CNW mark rather than immediately repaint all acquired equipment. Some companies own several marks that are used to identify different classes of cars, such as boxcars or gondolas. If

567-405: The owner, or more precisely the keeper of the vehicle. Thus each UIC member got a two-digit owner code . With the introduction of national vehicle registers this code became a country code. Some vehicles had to be renumbered as a consequence. The Swiss company BLS Lötschbergbahn had the owner code 63. When their vehicles were registered, they got numbers with the country code 85 for Switzerland and

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594-602: The railways and registered with the Ministry of Railways , Government of India . Walton, Michigan Walton , often referred to as Walton Junction , is an unincorporated community in the northern Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan . The community is located within Fife Lake Township , Grand Traverse County , and lies immediately north of the Wexford County line. The railroad junction at Walton

621-727: The railways and registered with the Railway Clearing House . In India, wagons owned by the Indian Railways are marked with codes of two to four letters, these codes normally being the initials of the railway divisions concerned along with the Hindi abbreviation; for example, trains of the Western Railway zone are marked "WR" and "प रे"; those of the Central Railway zone are marked "CR" and "मध्य", etc. The codes are agreed between

648-566: The three counties it operated in: Tuscola , Saginaw and Bay . The Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway was incorporated on April 26, 1977. It operated three lines under contract to the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), succeeding Conrail : the Bay City branch between Millington, Michigan , and Munger, Michigan ; the Caro branch between Vassar, Michigan , and Colling, Michigan ; and

675-459: Was abandoned by the early 1920s. In 1909, an extension of the Manistee and North-Eastern Railroad (M&NE) opened through the community. This line, which eventually connected Mesick to Grayling , was obliterated in 1925. In 1940, US Highway 131 , which had originally run through the community, was shifted onto a newly constructed alignment east of town. Today, all that remains of Walton are

702-501: Was established in 1872 with the completion of an extension of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad north from Clam Lake (now Cadillac ). The extension include a wye junction , with one branch extending northeast to Fife Lake (eventually to Petoskey ), and the other extending northwest to Traverse City . While the settlement was originally called Walton Junction, a post office by the name of Walton opened on February 14, 1873. It

729-564: Was impaired. This often resulted in five-letter reporting marks, an option not otherwise allowed by the AAR. Companies owning trailers used in trailer-on-flatcar service are assigned marks ending with the letter "Z", and the National Motor Freight Traffic Association , which maintains the list of Standard Carrier Alpha Codes, assigns marks ending in "U" to owners of intermodal containers . The standard ISO 6346 covers identifiers for intermodal containers. When

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