Topic: Train stations

[DetroitZack]

I made this thread for people to post pictures they have of any train stations in the world.

Ann Arbor, MI- 1886


Chelsea, MI- 1880


Clio, MI- 1873


Detroit, MI- 1913


East Jordan, MI


Grayling, MI- 1882




Howell, MI- 1872


Petoskey, MI


Romulus, MI




Sylvania, OH




Tecumseh, MI


Ypsilanti, MI- 1878

[ColDayMan]

Great job!

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A great collection! Ypsilanti's is my favorite, although Ann Arbor and Detroit (however sad) are right up there.

[KJP]

Nice pics. Thanks.

That Ann Arbor RR station in Howell, MI is a bit of a puzzle. It looks newer than 1872, looks like a bank and looks to be nowhere near a railroad track. Love to hear more about it.

[Robert Pence]

That Ann Arbor RR station in Howell, MI is a bit of a puzzle. It looks newer than 1872, looks like a bank and looks to be nowhere near a railroad track. Love to hear more about it.

I think it looks more like the reproduction colonial buildings the US Post Office built, maybe in the 1930s.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad later became part of the New York Central System; the former Lake Shore track survives mostly in pieces operated by various short line railroads.

Former Lake Shore freight house




The former passenger depot is privately owned.




Indiana Northeastern Railroad operates out of the former New York Central division office building. The antique wig-wag crossing signal came from a road crossing in Indiana.


Indiana Northeastern treats the building with respect and maintains it well. The offices and conference room on the second floor still have their original stained & varnished beadboard walls. Note the still-functioning copper gutters & downspouts.


In the freight house portion of the depot at Pleasant Lake, Indiana, there are signatures dated in the 1880s. The railroad line is former Lake Shore & Michigan Southern / New York Central now owned by Indiana Northeastern, and runs south from Hillsdale to Steubenville, Indiana, where it connects with former Wabash track running west to South Milford, Indiana and east to Pergo Junction, just west of Montpelier, Ohio for a connection with Norfolk Southern.


The depot is owned by Dave DeVries, who keeps his impeccably-restored 1973 Central Vermont steel caboose on a siding there. In this photo, the crew was preparing to add the caboose to a northbound freight for a trip chartered by a group of mostly-Canadian railfans in January 2004.


Layover for burgers at Reading, Michigan

[Bonjourtoledo]

Here's Toledo's train station known as "MLK Jr. Union Station":


This is the Children's Park that sits right in front of the train station with the view of downtown skyline:

[presOhio]

Big Four Depot, Galion, Ohio, built 1900

[Robert Pence]

Big Four Depot, Galion, Ohio, built 1900

Wow!

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^No kidding. Too bad they couldn't recreate the arched window, however.

Not the best photo, but I had to throw my hometown depot in there...

[Magyar]

From the Mississippi Delta....
Clarksdale

(Now home to the Delta Blues Museum)http://www.deltabluesmuseum.org
Helena, Ark.

(Now home to the Delta Cultural Center)http://www.deltaculturalcenter.com/
Shelby

(Now home to the local library)

Cleveland

(It was refurbished sometime between 1999 and 2003)
Moorhead

(I'll admit up front that I could be wrong about this building.  There were once tracks, heading north, towards the water tower in front of that building on the right)
Greenwood

(The City of New Orleans still stops in Greenwood, but that station is elsewhere in town)

[noozer]

McAdam Junction, New Brunswick, Canada.  My parents traveled through this station on their way to the U.S. after they were married in Nova Scotia in 1942.  This was where you had to change trains for the trip into Maine and down the East Coast to Boston.

The second photo is of the long-gone Housatonic Railroad depot in my hometown of Trumbull, Connecticut.  The station was torn down after the railroad was abandoned in the early 1930's.

The final shot is of a fog-bound Mystic, Connecticut station on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.  I've been there in the daylight, but in the night fog it takes on a whole different atmosphere.

[edale]

Downtown Los Anegles' Union Station