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This article is about a Michigan branch line. For the railroad in Georgia, see Ocmulgee and Flint River Railroad.

The Flint River Railroad is a defunct railroad. It was established on December 6, 1871, to construct a 14.4-mile (23.2 km) branch from Horton to Otter Lake to support the logging industry in the Flint River area. This line was opened on October 8, 1872, and the company was consolidated with the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad (F&PM). In 1881 the F&PM extended this line 5.2 miles (8.4 km) to Fostoria.

The successor to the F&PM, the Pere Marquette Railway, abandoned the segment between Fostoria and Otisville, a distance of 9.8 miles (15.8 km), in 1933. The C&O abandoned the remainder in 1972. A section of the line is now operated by the heritage Huckleberry Railroad.

Notes

Michigan Railroad Commission (1896), xxiii; Meints (2005), 386.
Meints (2005), 386-387.
"The Huckleberry Railroad". Huckleberry Railroad at Crossroads Village. Archived from the original on December 22, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-31.

References

Meints, Graydon M. (2005). Michigan Railroad Lines. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87013-693-1.
Michigan Railroad Commission (1896). Annual Report.

v t 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

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