Petoskey, MI: Preserved+Aban/GLC/T&SB/Pennsy/GR&I and Museum/C&O/PM Depots

GR&I: (Satellite)

PM: (Satellite)

GR&I = Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad

Preserved+Aban means the depot has been preserved, but the railroad has been abandoned.

GR&I:

Street View, Sep 2019

 

PM:

Street View, Sep 2019

This caught my eye because of the number of tracks. And then I noticed the standpipe. The platform cover is a reminder that railroads were much more civilized at the beginning of the 1900s.

LG Gibson posted
Another photo hanging in Stafford's Bayview Inn.

Petoskey is now the northern town of the railroad formed from remnants of the Grand Rapids & Indiana and the Ann Arbor. A shortline normally terminates by some grain elevator or other industry that still needs rail service. In this case, it terminates by this depot but they built a building under the platform roof. I wonder if it was a tourist railroad. (2024 update: the RoW is now a trail.)

Raymond Storey posted
PETOSKY MI
Dennis DeBruler: Because the tracks are straight, this must be the Pennsy/GR&I depot. The depot is extant, but it appears that the building was changed since this photo was taken.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/m9NUENNk4a9tNUjG6

As usual, I started with a topo map. The north/south route was the GR&I and the route along the lake was the PM.

1958 Petoskey Quad @ 24,000

I saw a couple of squares that looked like good candidates. I confirmed they were depots with this aerial view. Then I found both of them still exist. See the satellite links at the top of these nots.

May 20, 1954 @ l17,000; AR1WE0000170068

GR&I:

Citation: "“View of Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Park,” Little Traverse Historical Society Collections, accessed February 7, 2024, https://collections.petoskeymuseum.org/items/show/15278."

Given that it burned in 1999, it is even more remarkable that it has been preserved.

Citation: "“Burned out Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Suburban Station Depot in Petoskey,” Little Traverse Historical Society Collections, accessed February 7, 2024, https://collections.petoskeymuseum.org/items/show/14860."

Citation: "Foley, “Pere Marquette Depot; later to become the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad Depot, then the Little Traverse Historical Society History Museum,” Little Traverse Historical Society Collections, accessed February 7, 2024, https://collections.petoskeymuseum.org/items/show/14855."

So where was the "suburban station?"

Citation: "“Dummy Train at the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Suburban Station in Petoskey,” Little Traverse Historical Society Collections, accessed February 7, 2024, https://collections.petoskeymuseum.org/items/show/14854."