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Station: Lansing, MI - Union Station (MC/PM)
Lansing Union Station was located at Lansing just north of Michigan Avenue. This was a "union station" because it was also used by the Pere Marquette railroad.
Photo info: Various views of the Michigan Central Lansing union station. Top, a colorized postcard view. 2nd photo, the station in a winter scene. [Alan Loftis collection]. 3rd photo, a Pere Marquette streamlined train is stopped at Lansing Union Station in 1946. [H.E. Smith photo, Al Smith collection]. 4th photo, another winter shot with a hot-shot CP Rail freight train heading eastbound (south) past the station on CSX trackage rights. 1994. [Charlie Whipp]. 5th photo a 2004 view of the station, now Clara's Restaurant. [Alan Loftis]. 5th and 6th views, inside the station in 2004. [Alan Loftis]
Notes
Time Line
1902. A new passenger station is built here by the MC, at a cost of $29,000. [MCR-1902]
1917. The MC had an operator-lerk here around-the-clock. [TRT]
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