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| Albert Spencer posted First day of operation, April 1, 1976 of the Hillsdale County Railroad at the LS&MS, NYC Depot Hillsdale, Michigan on the Old Road after Conrail. |
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| Andy Zukowski posted Lake Shore Railroad Depot in Hillsdale, Michigan. C. 1910 Photo by C.R. Childs Richard Fiedler shared |
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| Durand Union Station-Michigan Railroad History Museum posted Today’s featured depot is the NYC station in Hillsdale 🚂 Hillsdale was settled about 1834 in the center of Hillsdale County. A State of Michigan owned railroad called the Southern line was the first to reach the town in 1843. By 1849, the line had been extended west to Jonesville. It was later sold to the Michigan Southern Railroad, which continued building the line further west. The railroad built a six stall engine house in Hillsdale along present-day Carleton Road East. The depot at Hillsdale, built between 1885 and 1890, featured high ceilings and a brick exterior. There was a freight house and division offices near the depot as well. There was also a water standpipe - used to fill the tenders of steam locomotives. Unfortunately, the roundhouse and turntable were dismantled in the 1950s, but the depot still exists and remains in partial use today. Check the comments for photos of the freight house and division offices! 👇 ____________________________ Sources: Lackey, Carol A. “Along the Railroad Tracks”. Hillsdale County Historical Society. www.hillsdalehistoricalsociety.org/along-rr-tracks. Accessed 24 October 2025. “Station: Hillsdale, MI - New York Central station”. Michigan Railroads. http://www.michiganrailroads.com/.../3243-hillsdale-mi.... Accessed 24 October 2025. Photo: Card, Roger. “The NYC depot at Hillsdale”. Michigan Railroads. 1954. http://www.michiganrailroads.com/.../3243-hillsdale-mi.... [Please access the "posted" link to access the reference links and the comments.] Durand Union Station-Michigan Railroad History Museum shared |
My 1973 RR Atlas shows that Penn Central had already abandoned the route between Hillsdale and Hudson and it is now the Baw Beese Trail southeast of Lake Street. Penn Central still had the routes between Hinsdale/Jonesville and Hinsdale/Bankers. Contemporary maps show that those two routes still exist and that the route between Jonesville and Bankers has been abandoned. The Hillsdale County tracks have gone through several owners, but Hillsdale service now seems to be stable as the operational headquarters of the Indiana Northeastern system. In fact, this 2014 street view shows a couple of pieces of Maintenance-of-Way equipment and some fresh ballast. (I assume that the CSX engine has been "patched" for Northeastern Indiana.)
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| July 2014 Street View |
Unfortunately, the flour mill that they used to serve that was east of their railyard now looks abandoned.
4 of 8 photos posted by Marty Bernard with the comment: "Hillsdale County Ry Co., Inc. was incorporated Jan. 27,1976 and the lines are now operated by the Indiana Northeastern."
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| 1 Hillsdale County Ry Co., Inc. Map, Hillsdale, MI in 1988, a Karl Miller photo. |
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| 2 Hillsdale County Ry. Co., Inc. GP7 1602 built Aug. 1952 as RDG 606 and GP9 1603 built April 1954 as Cincinnati Union Terminal 5903 at Hillsdale Yard, MI in 1988, a Karl Miller photo. |
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| 3 Hillsdale County Ry. Co., Inc. GP7 1602 built Aug. 1952 as RDG 606 at Hillsdale, MI in 1988, a Karl Miller photo. What are the two buildings? Dennis DeBruler: The building in the foreground was the NYC division offices and is now used by the Indiana Northeastern Railroad. The building in the background was the NYC/LS&MS depot and it is now a church. The original mainline of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern is the east/west route through Hillsdale. It was one of the six railroads to build to Chicago in the 1850s. When it started, railroads connected bodies of water so this one went from Lake Erie to Lake Michigan. The LS&MS route that still exists across Indiana and Ohio was built after railroads replaced water transportation. NYC had branches from Hillsdale to the Northeast going to the Detroit and to the Southeast going to Fort Wayne. |
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| Ray Schloss commented on the second photo I love Karl’s photo. A good small town rail yard. Amazingly, that boxcar on the far right is still there in the same spot. Photo below is 31 years later in 2019. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Marty's post 1953 Fort Wayne Quad @ 1:250,000 |
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| Worldwide Railfan Productions posted Nickel Plate 765 Crosses Highway Operating on Indiana Northeastern, the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society operated NKP 765, a 2-8-4 Berkshire, on 6/17 and 6/18. For the 2023 season, 765 is painted without the white-walled tires. Location: Hillsdale, MI By: Brandon Fiume Taken on: June 18, 2023 |
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