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Aerial photo of Georgia Packfic Kalamazoo Division mill (buildings on left side, inside the loop are National Gypsum, the white buildings to the upper right are James River (nee Sutherland Paper).  Botsford Yard is at the top of the photo and the remaining half of the roundhouse is barely discernable at the very top edge.  Photo is from 1981.  Collection of Ben Higdon.

 

Michigan Central Railroad wreck at Botsford Yard on September 24, 1924.  One person was killed in the derailment.  [Ben Higdon collection]

The MCRR Roundhouse at Botsford Yard [Tim Shanahan Collection]