Delray Connecting

Delray Connecting History

Operates on Zug Island in Detroit.
Owned and operated by Transtar, Inc., the railroad division of U.S. Steel.
Operates 15.46 miles of mostly industrial trackage.
Interchanges with NS and Conrail Shared Assets.
In addition to providing Great Lakes Works with a full service railroad switching operation, the Delray weighs cars, dumps cars at a rotary dumper, makes track repairs and repairs railroad cars at its facilities.

Number	Model	Year(s) Built	History	Notes
DC 1	SW9	1952	Ex-CN 7707/CN 7007.	Out of service, bad wheels 1-1-16.
DC 3	SW1	1952	Ex-TCCX 1991/DSCX 1138/GLSX 35.	Spare locomotive.
DC 64	SW1001	1975	Ex-USSX 64/FRDX 10023.
DC 219	SW1001	1973	Ex-BS 219/FS 219/BS 219/BS 19.	Still in yellow & lettered for BS.
DC 372	MP15DC	1976	Ex-BS 372/LTEX 1503/USSX 955.	Still in yellow w/ new DC logo.

Customer	Location	Company Description	Type of Railcar	Notes
DTE EES Coke	Zug Island	Coke Battery	Open Hoppers	NS brings in the trains, but DCRR does the switching.
Darling Ingredients	Zug Island	Animal Fat Transload	Tank Cars
Great Lakes Steel BOP Shop	River Rouge	Steel Mill	Gondolas/Open Hoppers/Steel Coil Cars