Saturday, March 6, 2010

Classic Railroad Station to be Reborn, maybe

Check out this story in the New York Times. They're talking about restoring the Michigan Central Station in Detroit. Despite the name, the Michigan Central was the New York Central's Michigan route through Detroit, Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo to Chicago with named trains like the Wolverine. Trains departed Buffalo into Canada and went through St. Thomas to Windsor and the tunnel across the border to Detroit. Both Canadian and US customs and imigration conducted their business aboard the train. I last traveled the route in 1955 in a roomette from Albany to Kalamazoo.

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