Reporting Marks: SACR
Terminal Areas:
Southern: Harrington (Peck) SCMT Interchange
Eastern: Poland SCMT Interchange
Western: Snover
Base: Sandusky
Customers:
Walker
SCRC Yard and Maintenance Facility (Flat Cars, Hoppers of gravel and salt)
Sanilac Centre
Co-Op (Covered Hoppers)
TOFC Ramp (Flat Cars)
Yale Rubber (Boxcars, Covered Hoppers)
Jensen Bridge (Gondolas w/steel, Flats w/culverts)
Snover
Co-Op (Covered Hoppers- Unit Train Facility)
West Poland
Landfill (Gondolas w/debris, Gondolas w/garbage)
Motive Power:
RS-1 8101 NYC Lightening Stripe
RS-2 2099 ATSF Zebra Stripe
GP 38 xxxx Original Norfolk Southern (shortline predecessor to current NS Corp)
General Notes:
Sanilac Centre Railway (SACR) is an independently owned railway company serving the greater Sanilac Centre, Michigan, area. SACR is better known by its original name, the Sandusky Terminal Railway (SATR). The SATR was renamed Sanilac Centre Railway on 1 January 2006, to better reflect the decision by the citizens of Sandusky to change the name of their city to Sanilac Centre to better reflect the geographical location of their city (right in the center of Sanilac County), and the city’s heritage (ironically, the city's name was changed several months earlier, on 24 July, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the original name change).
SATR was formed by a local group of investors to maintain access to local industries by rail in order to keep trucking prices down. SATR purchased portions of DC&S upon DC&S dissolution in 1952, and later purchased C&O trackage from Sandusky to Poland to maintain C&O, HESR and finally SCMT interchange at Poland.
SATR is well known among railroad buffs, due to its rather ancient motive power roster. SACR 2099, an RS-2, was acquired from the ATSF in 1956 to replace the worn out DC&S steam locomotive originally acquired from the DC&S estate in 1952. SACR 8101, a former NYC RS-1, was purchased from the Penn Central in the late 1960s. Both locomotives have been painstakingly maintained by SACR’s dedicated mechanical team, but are both showing signs of age. A local railroad buff, and diesel collector, has leased the road a GP38, painted for Norfolk Southern Corp. predecessor Norfolk Southern, which has become the company’s primary locomotive in recent months. The local rumor mill reports that the company may purchase an additional EMD product to supplement the GP38 in the near future.
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