Station: Fort Street Union Station
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| This is an aerial photo of the turntable and roundhouse near Fort Street Union Station in Detroit. The PM boat yard is on the back along the Detroit river. A switch engine is making up an outbound train for the depot. [American Memory Collection, U.S. Library of Congress] |
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A postcard view of the Fort Street Union Station. |
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Jeff Feldmeier submits the following article
from the February 2, 1946 edition of Railway Age:
Begin Remodeling of Detroit Station
More convenience and space is objective of $500,000 one-year program
Involving a total cost of $500,000 and several months of planning, a modernization project for the Fort Street Union Station in Detroit, Mich., has been started and is expected to be completed within a year. The work is being carried on by the Walbridge, Aldinger Company, Detroit, under the supervision of M. M. Cronk and O. E. Hager, general manager and chief engineer, respectively, of the Fort Street Union Depot Company.
The station is used by the trains of the Pennsylvania, the Pere Marquette and the Wabash. In addition to trains which the Pere Marquette operates on its own lines, it also operates through trains in and out of the station in conjunction with the Baltimore & Ohio and the Chesapeake & Ohio by way of Toledo, Ohio.
The principal objective of the remodeling plan consists of the removal from the ground floor of many functions not essential to the welfare of the traveling public and which now occupy space badly needed for public accommodations. Under the present set-up, the ground floor is occupied by the ticket office, restaurant, newsstand, Travelers' Aid station, information counter, ladies' room, check room, and the offices of the stationmaster, passenger agent, Pullman agent, ticket agent station accountants, restaurant kitchen, storeroom and other miscellaneous functions. All of these not considered essential to direct public use will be removed to a newly-constructed second floor, provisions for which will be made by erecting a new ceiling over the waiting room at a height of one and one-half stories. The work will also include building of a new train gate wall with large and direct exits at either end and six large doors leading to the waiting room.