Michigan Services

Map of Amtrak routes in Michigan.
Michigan Services
Metra Chicago
0mi
Hammond–Whiting
Wolverine only
16 mi
26 km
New Buffalo
62 mi
100 km
89 mi
143 km
St. Joseph
Niles
89 mi
143 km
116 mi
187 km
Bangor
Dowagiac
102 mi
164 km
151 mi
243 km
Holland
Kalamazoo
138 mi
222 km
176 mi
283 km
Battle Creek
160 mi
257 km
Albion
184 mi
296 km
208 mi
335 km
East Lansing
Jackson
205 mi
330 km
238 mi
383 km
Durand
Ann Arbor
243 mi
391 km
256 mi
412 km
Flint
Dearborn
271 mi
436 km
274 mi
441 km
Lapeer
Detroit
281 mi
452 km
319 mi
513 km
Royal Oak
292 mi
470 km
Troy
296 mi
476 km
304 mi
489 km

Michigan Services are three Amtrak passenger rail routes connecting Chicago, Illinois with the Michigan cities of Grand Rapids, Port Huron, and Pontiac, and stations en route. The group falls under the Amtrak Midwest brand and is a component of the Midwest Regional Rail Initiative.

The Michigan Services routes are:

The routes carried 633,231 passengers during fiscal year 2022.[1]

Up until fiscal year 2014, the State of Michigan only subsidized the operations of the Pere Marquette and Blue Water at a cost of $8 million in fiscal year 2014. Starting fiscal year 2014, the state took on the costs of operations for the Wolverine pushing the state subsidy to $25 million.[2]

No checked baggage service is available on Michigan Services routes.

  1. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet Fiscal Year 2022 State of Michigan" (PDF). Amtrak. June 2023. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  2. ^ VanHulle, Lindsay (October 6, 2013). "Amtrak works with the state to upgrade service, raise number of riders". Gannett Michigan. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved October 20, 2013.