A fifty-six-pound rail from the Pontiac Oxford and Northern Railroad, now Grand Trunk Western, was laid about 1882 between Caseville and Pontiac. On July 17, 1961, it was the first rail removed when the last 6 miles of the original track from Caseville to Pigeon was rebuilt with ninety-pound rails. The original rails were made in England by Edgar Thomson Steel in 1881 and were brought to Caseville by ship together with two wood-burning locomotives and other equipment. The line was placed in service on Oct. 8, 1883.