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Station: Oxford, MI
Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum
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Below: A photo of the Michigan Central depot at Oxford, taken in a northward direction. The diamond was on the north side of the building where the PO&N crossed. Just visable to the far left of the photo is the interchange track for the PO&N and MC. XN tower was located to the east (across the tracks from the depot) in the southeast corner of the diamond. The depot was destroyed fire by vandals in the mid 1970's. [Charlie Whipp photo]. |
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Below, an early photograph of the Detroit United Railway's Oxford station, taken in the early part of the century. |
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1961: The Oxford interlocked crossing of the NYC Bay City Branch and the GTW's PO&N Branch is automated and the tower is closed. [CW]
1972: Traffic on the Penn Central's Bay City branch was down to one through train each way each day, along with a local train. Most of the Bay City Branch used 105 lb. rail, which was in very good condition but less than the 132 lb. rail which was necessary to haul coal trains. After the creation of Penn Central in 1968, unit coal trains to Bay City and Midland were rerouted north away from the Bay City branch on the former Ann Arbor from Toledo to Owosso, and then the PC to the Bay City area. This was as a result of track damage and costly derailments on the Bay City branch. [CW]