Southern Michigan Railroad Society, Inc.

- Increase level of maintenance of our historic rail line and historic equipment, and facilities.
- Increase the size of our collection.
- Expand into a new site.
- Reduce the organization's debt.
- Revisit our strategic plan.

- Continue to innovate to engage the public and bring support.
- Redouble our investment in our core railroad and collection.
- Position ourselves as an important regional railway museum.

- We are the only bona-fide heritage railroad in Michigan.
- Our railroad is one of the most appealing, well built lines in preservation.
- We are ideally located to serve a constituency of 7 million people.
- Unlike most heritage railroads, we own the railroad in fee simple, without dependency on other organizations.
- We have the necessary equipment to operate historic trains for the public.
- Our supporting organization has a 90-acre site we aim to develop into a state-of-the-art facility for railway preservation, including mechanical shops and indoor storage for railcars.

Our organization is departing a long stagnation where visitorship hovered around 2500 people and revenues did not meet expenses. Our support is now growing very strongly and we are approaching a level of long-term solvency. This enables us to move forward.