Station: Trenton, MI

MC Trenton Depot 
Trenton interurban car downtown Trenton is a location on the Michigan Central Toledo Division, about 0.8 miles south of Slocum Junction in Wayne County. This was also near the original crossing of the CASO from Grosse Isle to Fayette, OH.

Trenton was also a station on the interurban line running south from Detroit.

Photo info: Top, a railroad valuation photo of the MC Trenton Depot in 1919. [CMUL]. 2nd photo, an interurban car comes down the center of Washington Street in this postcard view from about 1910.


Notes


Time Line

1880. The Lima Northern had a "repeating operator" at Trenton. The position was moved to Grand Trunk Junction after the LN extended its wire from Fayette through here to Detroit. [EFP-1880-1110]

Bibliography

The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:

  • [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
  • [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
  • [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
  • [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
  • [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI

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