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Above, an old view of the Bad Axe depot.  This depot appears to be a wood frame depot which may have been replaced by the stone version below.  [Alan Loftis Collection]  Below, the depot at Bad Axe, Michigan, taken in May,1987.  This depot was built in 1900.  [Bruce Vanderwarker photo].

 

Above, an old photo of the depot taken around the turn of the century.  [Both, Alan Loftis Collection]  Below, the stone depot at Bad Axe, in a postcard view.

Above, a photograph of the Grand Trunk Western depot at Bad Axe.  This depot was built in 1914 and was the terminus of the GTW branch from Cass City.  [T. J. Gaffney Collection]  Below, C&O 3003, a GP-30, works in Bad Axe yard in 1972.  [Charlie Whipp]

A 1974 photo of the C&O Depot at Bad Axe.  [Charles Geletzke, Jr.]

Note from T. J. Gaffney, Curator at the Port Huron Museum:  I have never been able to prove this, but I sincerely believe that ST&H had a separate depot from PH&NW/F&PM at Bad Axe.  This depot resembles the PH&NW standard design for a FULL size depot, which still exists in the form of Harbor Beach and Croswell (well, the freight room side anyway).  The PH&NW also had a depot roughly 1/2-3/4 of this size, surviving examples being Deckerville, Mayville, Palms, and MacGregor.  The stone depot that survives at Bad Axe today was the ST&H depot.