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Station:  Jackson, MI

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 1886 - April
  • The Lake Shore line from Tecumseh now terminates at Liberty Street. The "old wooden bridge" over the Grand River is no longer used.
  • The Grand Trunk roundhouse near Trail Street has 8 stalls.
  • The former Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw roundhouse (near Trail Street, by the GTW) is now the E. R. Smith Boiler Shops.  This roundhouse is off a lead on the Michigan Central line to Lansing.  The roundhouse appears large enough to hold 10 locomotives and is a 1/3 circle.  As of 1886, only three bays appear to be used.
  • The Lake Shore roundhouse is on the west side of Water Street, south of town.  It has 3-bays but appears not to be used.  A freight house also is present.

1893 - January

  • Michigan Central main line is still one track through town.
  • The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern passenger depot is still in place, along what is now Airline Drive.
  • The former Jackson Lansing & Saginaw roundhouse near what is now North Trail is owned by the E. R. Smith Boiler Shop but is now a paper company.  No tracks are connected to the roundhouse but it it still there.
  • The Chicago & Grand Trunk passenger depot is located on the northeast corner of Trail and W. Jackson Street.
  • A "narrow gauge" track runs on the west side of the MCRR Grand Rapids branch, "2 1/2 miles north of the court house".

1899 - November

  • The Michigan Central main line is still single track.
  • The Lake Shore's branch from Tecumseh goes northbound over a new bridge over the Grand River.  The track then arcs northeast to the front of the Michigan Central "Union" station.
  • The Lake Shore's roundhouse along what is now Airline Drive and Water Street no longer has tracks in place.

1907

  • The Michigan Central main line is now double track through Jackson.
  • The Grand Rapids Branch now connects at Pearl Street and a signal tower is now in place on the southeast corner of the railroad, Pearl and Cooper.
  • A pedestrian bridge spans the tracks over the yard east of the Union Depot.  The foot bridge spans the tracks from Liberty Street near Park, to South Van Dorn Street.
  • A freight house (the current NS MOW facility) is labeled "MCRR and Cincinnati Northern Railroad Freight House".
  • The MCRR Roundhouse is now 28 stalls.