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Is it correct that all Class 1s in Detroit (minus CP obviously) serve the plant? Which railroad gets the autorack business?

Depends if you are limiting it just to Ford or the Rouge Complex as a whole. I think only CN serves the Ford portion of the plant, frames in, autoracks out, and parts out in those 86’ boxcars from the stamping plant.

CR and CSX serve the steel side of the complex. NS and CN may interchange cars to those roads to or from the steel mill, but I think only CSX and CR offer direct access to the steel side.

I might also be wrong and look forward to being corrected!

Not familiar of any Conrail service to Ford Dearborn.

The NS 414 and 415 are the unit coke trains to Severstal that uses the Conrail Junction Runner and Michigan Line.

Conrail switches cars off the Junction yard runner. The steel side (AK).

Before Conrail came to be, Livernois yard had a day job that delivered cars to Fords at Miller Road. The train had to be blocked as well: loaded boxes, mty boxes, loaded gons, and loaded hoppers. Typical run was 25-30 cars in, same amount out, however there were days where 60 cars out also occured.

The Ford Rouge complex has two railroads. The AK-Cliffs side has their own locomotives and the Ford side is switched by Canac who sub's it out to CN. NS can access the steel side off the Junction Yard Branch at Gate 10. NS, CSXT can access both plants at Fordson Yard. CN comes in on the former D&I from the south. Conrail can also access at Gate 10 and Fordson yard.
CN has all of the outbound auto rack business. NS delivers coke to the steel side at Fordson yard. CSXT handles the steel from AK, slabs out, coil in. CN handles the XL cars and frame flats but does deliver and pull from the NS at Oakwood Jct.