Gera was settled about 1894 as Frankenmuth Station, but renamed Gera. [MPN] It was located on the Pere Marquette branch line which ran between East Saginaw and Port Huron via Marlette, about 15 miles east of downtown East Saginaw.
Photo Info: Top, the PM Gera depot with a passenger train. [T.J. Gaffney collection]. 2nd photo, the Gera depot in 1972. [Charles Geletzke Jr.]. 3rd photo, the same depot in 1003. [Alan Loftis]
1970. The train order signal was over the north side of the main track, controlled by a pipeline that ran under the tracks and to two "armstrong-type" levers in the depot. Cars of beans for Campbells in Napoleon, OH was shipped from here and Carling Brewery in Saginaw received loads of barley. Star of the West trucked up flour in covered hoppers. There was a spur east of the M-83 crossing where cars of anhydrous ammonia were unloaded.
Train crews would hand the agent the waybills. While the local worked Gera, the agents at Vassar, Marinette and Yale would all get on the dispatcher's line so you could read off what they had coming that day. [DH]
1977. The agency was closed in January, 1977 at Gera. A mobile agent was assigned from Gera to Marlette. [DH]
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