Pinckney Dispatch May 17, 1888
Track-laying has been commenced on both ends of the Toledo, Saginaw & Mackinaw railroad.
Isabella County Enterprise 4-27-1888
Eighteen carloads of steel have been received at Durand for the new Saginaw & Durand railroad. About 40,000 ties have already been received, and track-laying will probably begin in 30 days.
Isabella County Enterprise 6-8-1888
Five depots are to be put up on the Toledo, Saginaw & Mackinaw railroad between East Saginaw and Durand by M. S. Stewart of Flint, who is to get $1,500 each for the job. The stations will be Fosters, Taymouth, Montrose, Lennon, Brent Creek.
The Owosso American 9-12-1888
B. Wilkinson, for five years superintendent of the Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron Railroad, has accepted the superintendency of the Toledo, Saginaw & Mackinaw Railroad, between Saginaw and Durand, about completed. P. F. Gaines, chief clerk in the general freight office of the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad, will become general agent off the new road and will have charge of the passenger and freight business. It was supposed that the Toledo, Saginaw & Mackinaw would be leased or sold to the Ashleys or Grand Trunk, but it is understood now that the company which built it will operate it.
Isabella County Enterprise 3-12-1889
Reported at East Saginaw that the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Michigan railroad will throw up the Toledo, Saginaw & Mackinaw railroad at the expiration of its lease, July 1, and that the Grand Trunk will buy the lease.
Isabella County Enterprise 5-3-1889
At a meeting held in Lansing a few days ago the railroad crossing board approved the consolidation of the Federal Valley & Columbus railroad company, and the the Columbus, Lima & Lake Michigan railroad company, forming the Columbus, Lima & Milwaukee railroad company, extending from Plymouth, O., to Saugatuck, Mich. The board also approved the map of the Toledo, Saginaw & Mackinaw extremity from Saginaw City down the west side of the river to the Bay county line.
Aug. 27, 1889 New York Times
General Manager Ashley of the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Road says that papers were made out and signed in Toledo Saturday by which the road will purchase what is known as the Saginaw Construction Company's Durand Branch. It will be transferred when the construction company shall complete the extension to Oaatka Beach, twenty miles north of East Saginaw.
Isabella County Enterprise 10-25-1889
The Michigan Central positively refuses to let the T. S. & M. road cross its track in the northern part of West Bay City.
Detroit, Dec. 30, 1889 [New York Times] – Articles of association of the Cincinnati, Saginaw and Mackinaw Railway Company have been filed in the office of the Secretary of State. The capital stock is $5,000,000 and the company is authorized to construct a railroad from the State line between Michigan and Ohio, in the county of Lenawee, North, via Saginaw to the Straits of Mackinac. The incorporators are practically the same as those owning the Toledo, Saginaw and Mackinaw, and the new company will operate that road.
The object of the new organization is to avoid confusion of names with the Toledo, Saginaw and Muskegon, and also to effect a change of the southern terminus of the road. Rolling stock is being purchased and other preparations made to increase the traffic and extend the road, which will be operated independently of all previous connections. James G. Gardner, formerly of the Buffalo and Pittsburg and lately of Minneapolis, has been appointed Superintendent. The southern terminus of the road will be changed from Toledo to Cincinnati, the company recognizing the fact that a direct line to Toledo is already in operation from Saginaw. At Durand the road will form independent connections with the Grand Trunk, Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee, and the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan, but will early next season push its own line southward as well as northward, thus giving the Saginaw Valley a direct outlet to the Ohio River.
The new company will erect car shops and make its headquarters in Saginaw. After Tuesday the present lease with the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Company will cease, and the line line from Bay City to Durand will be operated independently of all existing arrangements.
Benzie Banner 9-18-1890
Will Lengthen the Track
President Burt, of the Cincinnati, Saginaw & Mackinaw railroad, has written a letter to the Au Sable Business Men's Association, in which he says his company is negotiating to build the road to Mackinaw. It now ends at Kawkawlin river. He says that proper encouragement along the shore in the matter of right of way will be necessary.
