Cass River Railroad

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The Cass River Railroad is a defunct railroad which operated in Michigan during the early 1870s. The company was chartered on December 12, 1871.^[1] In 1872 it completed a 19.4-mile (31.2 km) line from East Saginaw to Vassar. The line was intended to exploit the timber resources in the Cass River area. On June 4, 1872, the company was bought by the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad (F&PM).^[2]

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• Michigan Railroad Commission (1896). Annual Report. 
• Ivey, Paul (1919). The Pere Marquette Railroad Company. Michigan Historical Commission. 

v • d • e Constituent companies of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad 1868 Flint and Holly Railroad 1872 Bay City and East Saginaw Rail Road - Flint River Railroad - Holly, Wayne and Monroe Railway - Cass River Railroad 1889 East Saginaw and St. Clair Railroad - Saginaw and Mount Pleasant Railroad - Manistee Railroad - Saginaw and Clare County Railroad - Port Huron and Northwestern Railway 1897 Monroe and Toledo Railway