Saline, MI: 1870 NYC/LS&MS Depot and 1906 LS&MS/GTW Caboose

(Satellite)

Street View, Jun 2024

Matthew Jackson posted six photos with the comment:

Former GTW caboose (Saline, Michigan)

This former GTW caboose can be seen on display at the Saline Depot museum. The tracks are former Lakeshore and Michigan Southern that used to connect Ann Arbor to towns like Hillsdale, Michigan and Elkhart, Indiana. These tracks that run by the Saline depot are now widely overgrown except for a small portion that have been uncovered for a rail trail. The museum and a few other restored buildings have been on display on the site since July of 1995.

The caboose is a former Grand Trunk caboose #77954. It has been cosmetically altered to resemble a period accurate Lakeshore and Michigan Southern caboose that would have passed by the 1870 built depot.

The pictures included were from two separate visits: one in December of 2021, and the other on May of 2023.

— at Saline Area Historical Society.

Tim Shanahan shared

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Edward Gross, Feb 2018

Aaron Crawford, Nov 2021

Bruce Irwin, Apr 2021

Shane Daniel, Sep 2024

SAE Miller, May 2025

SAE Miller, May 2025

Aaron Crawford, Nov 2021

I think this is a printing adding machine. It is on a desk in the caboose.

SAE Miller, May 2025

I think the museum pulled the handle so that it would be visible in the above photo. Normally it would be beside the machin,e and you pulled it to add a number and print it. This photo, in the backround, shows the normal resting place for the handle beside the machine.

Aaron Crawford, Nov 2021

The town also has a farm museum on the east side.

Amit Baghel, Mar 2022

Kempton, PA: 1888,1963 Wanamaker, Kempton & Southern/Reading Depot And Feed Mill

Depot: (Satellite)

Feed Mill: (Satellite)

Dennis DeBruler commented on Rick's comment below
Yes, it is the southern terminus of the tourist railroad Wanamaker, Kempton & Southern. This was a Reading route. https://maps.app.goo.gl/AHcuyd2z5A4FSfzG8

Mark Schwartz posted
Kempton Train Station in Kempton, PA.
This train station was built in 1888. And was originally from another location. Was brought to Kempton in 1963.

Rick Moleski: Still standing?

Jeff Schanck, Jul 2018

Your Crazy Teacher, Jul 2019

Ollie Shortridge, Aug 2017

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The feed mill has a wood grain elevator core.

Street View, Jun 2025

They have also added a large grain storage elevator.

Street View, Jun 2025

Detroit, MI: 1927-2022 AMC Headquarters/Kelvinator Office+Factory

(Satellite, once again, a factory has been replaced by a warehouse.)

Street View, Nov 2020

HistoricDetroit
"In 1925, the Kelvinator Corporation produced the industry’s first self-contained electric home refrigerator, and its fortunes and manufacturing needs grew. This administration building and factory were built in 1927 and designed by the Detroit firm Smith, Hinchman & Grylls. The lead architects on the project were Amedeo Leoni and William E. Kapp....Following the January 1937 merger between Kelvinator and Nash Motors of Kenosha, Wis., the building became the home of Nash-Kelvinator....Nash-Kelvinator merged with Hudson Motors in 1954 to form the American Motors Corporation, which continued to call the Plymouth Road plant home. However, the complex was switched to serving as a design-and-research facility for cars, with the appliance manufacturing sited elsewhere. The appliance division was sold off in 1968, and AMC focused exclusively on cars....In 1975, American Motors relocated its headquarters to the American Center on Northwestern Highway in suburban Southfield, Mich. After AMC's move, the Plymouth Road complex building served as engineering offices for the automaker's widely popular Jeep line...Chrysler bought out AMC in 1987, and the west side complex was rebranded the Jeep and Truck Engineering Center, also handling design and research for Dodge trucks. Some 3,000 workers operated out of the facility, designing vehicles such as the Dodge Ram pickup and the Jeep Grand Cherokee." The facility was closed Jun 5, 2009, after Chrysler filed for bankruptcy in 2007. When sold to NorthPoint Development for redevelopment, the facility had 2 million sq. ft. I learned the euphemisim "employment center" for a building to house warehouse and light-assembly tenants. It should create at least 300 jobs.

Facebook Reel, I didn't finish watching. I don't like "urban exploration" videos.

This webpage has a lot of demolition photos.

Everett, PA: 1884 Earlston Blast Furnace

(Satellite, the land has been repurposed by the Turnpike Authority.)

Lincoln Highway Overview

3 of 8 images posted by PRR Bedford Branch History Preservationist with the comment:

Between Everett and Mount Dallas, there was a spur that rounded a 180-degree turn as it crossed the Raystown branch of the Juniata river to the south side. There it served the Earlston Furnace. 

This was called the Thropp bridge. 

built in 1884 by the Everett Iron Company.

The furnace went idle shortly after opening, but was put back into operation when the company was purchased by Joseph Thropp in 1889 and put into blast in 1890. The furnace was shut down in 1923, and the company went bankrupt in 1933. In June 1933, the plant was sold to the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, who began dismantling it in June of 1934.

This furnace was connected to the H&BTM using the Thropp Bridge. But it was also directly connected to the PRR too. Refer to the map and you can see the direct connection bypassing the Thropp Bridge.

Byron Smail: Earlston furnace was 1 of the 4 major latest and most modern iron furnaces in the Juniata Iron District.

Rockhill, Saxton, Riddlesburg, Earlston

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Lake George, NY: 1911 Steamboat Gift Shop/D&H Depot and 1755 Fort Whilliam Henry

Depot: (Satellite)

Fort: (Satellite)

Street View, Jun 20216

The fort is in the right half of this view.

Street View, Jun 2026

Bill Osborne posted six photos with the comment: "This is the Delaware and Hudson train station in Lake George. The D&H used to have a spur here to bring in wealthy tourists."

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The tracks do not appear in the 1966 map. Today's Warren County Bikeway repurposes the railroad's land.

1955/65 Glens Falls @ 62,500

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Mountain Lake Park, MD: B&O Depot and Interlocking Tower

Depot: (Satellite)

Tower: (Satellite)

Street View, May 2026

Street View, May 2026

Jim Kelling posted two photos with the comment: "Modified B&O station at Mountain Lake Park, Maryland."

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Absolutely crucial to the success of the unique town of Mountain Lake Park was without question its B&O Railroad station, the point at which hundreds of summer residents and visitors, after departing the extreme heat and humidity of their farther-east home towns, would arrive by rail, probably around Memorial Day—many with their servants in tow. They would be picked up by livery service and taken to their summer "cottages," one of the town's many boarding houses, or possibly the Mountain Lake Park Hotel. Many would spend their entire summer in the Park—"in the most salubrious of climates"—and partake of the many and varied cultural/educational offerings of the Chautauqua programming for which the town became famous. As the summer season waned, this site would again bustle with folks returning to their fulltime residences off the Mountaintop, probably already looking forward to coming back the following spring.

The original station had a plan that was similar to that of the Oakland B&O station, a long, low building spread out alongside the tracks, primarily of one story except for the middle third, which featured two peaked gable roofs rising at right angles, with one almost twice as large as the other. On the tracks side, a tower-like spire rises from between the two gabled roofs, again similar to that of the Oakland station. Behind the tower there was a tall, tulip-shaped, brick chimney. The roof overhung from the main building, forming a shelter supported by simple wood trusses and serving as protection from weather for the arriving and departing passengers. The upper-level exterior walls were covered with fish-scale shingling, while the ground level featured horizontal clapboards. The gable ends of the smaller cross-axis roof had a "flowering tree" half-timber motif, similar to decorations on cottages at the Deer Park Hotel. The station also featured some stained-glass windows, again much like Oakland's station, and still in place today.

The design is likely that of the firm of Baldwin and Pennington, which was under contract by the B&O Railroad. Probably built at about the same time as the Oakland station (1884), the Mountain Lake/Loch Lynn station is a less elaborate version, but features the same Queen Anne detailing. It is possible, however, that the station is a couple years older than Oakland's, as it is known that the first ticket agent at the station was Abram R. Sperry, who entered the service of the B&O Railroad in May 1882 as agent at Mountain Lake Park. He held the position until March 1911 before being transferred to Harpers Ferry. Sperry, who died in 1924, was also the Mountain Lake Park postmaster and resided along north N Street.

Since its closure as a railroad station, the structure has been altered several times over the years and has served as a warehouse, as well as a location for several retail businesses.

Interlocking Tower

Street View, May 2026

Jim Kelling posted three photos with the comment: "Abandoned B&O tower in Mountain Lake Park, Maryland, just west of the station."

Tim Shanahan shared

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