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Station: Three Rivers, Michigan
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The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern depot at Three Rivers, with a passenger train stopped in front. Note the various horse powered delivery vehicles and carriages. Below, the park at the Michigan Central Railroad Three Rivers station. [Both, Alan Loftis Collection] |
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Below, another view of the Lake Shore depot at Three Rivers. [Alan Loftis Collection] |
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Comments from Graydon Meints: 2/8/2004. Three Rivers had two passenger stations. The Michigan Central station was on the north side of the Air Line tracks just west of Main Street, about halfway to the Kalamazoo Branch (old NYC) tracks. Part of the outline of the station can still be seen. The NYC station was on the east side of the Kalamazoo Branch tracks just north of Michigan Avenue. There was a garden supply store there and although I've heard it is going to be torn down. The NYC depot was no longer used after passenger trains were discontinued in the 1930's. Beginning around the 1930's, the telegraph office/block station was moved from the Air Line depot to the Michigan Central freight house which stood just east of Main Street on the north side of the Air Line tracks. That building burned down, as I recall, in the 1970's. After the fire, the agent was moved into a small brick office building on the east side of 4th Street at the Kalamazoo Branch tracks and remained there until the agency was closed.