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| The Kalamazoo & Lansing Railway posted
This is a close representation of the shed for Kalamazoo. This one was the GR&I's Grand Rapids shed around 1900. The plan is one similar but on a curve and "modernized" in the 30's.
Picture from Grandraipidshistory.org
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Update: GR&I was a participant in the Union Station, which was completed in 1900.
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| Tom Carter posted Here's a neat shot of the very tall Pennsylvania Railroad tower on Bridge Street at Seward Avenue in Grand Raids in 1955, facing northeast. The tower was restored a few years ago and still stands, 65 years later! Those are the Pennsylvania (ex-GR&I) tracks in the foreground at the bottom. The Pere Marquette Railway had become the C&O Railway just eight years earlier in 1947, and their tracks, not visible here, paralleled the Pennsylvania tracks through Grand Rapids' west side to Comstock Park where they separated to take different routes northward. The big building behind the tower at 527 Bridge St. was built as a boarding house, presumably in the 1870's. By 1930 it had became a restaurant and confectionary, with ads offering furniture and appliances, obviously from the boarding house apartments, appearing in the papers for years thereafter. Bridge Street Paint Center, as seen here, moved in in September of 1955, but ran "going out of business" ads throughout August of 1956, less than a year later. The "El Sombrero" restaurant moved in here in January of 1973, and had a new building built to replace the century-plus old landmark boarding house at some point, perhaps in 1988? El Sombrero has just recently closed, with "Adobe In & Out" moving in from their Fulton Street location very soon. The sign on the building to the right of Bridge Street Paint Center reads West Side Coal Co., but coal suppliers were dropping like flies those days as more and more folks were converting from coal to gas heat, and, in fact, West Side Coal moved out shortly after this 1955 photo was taken. You can see Grand Rapids Cabinet Company behind it, but they were actually located around the corner on Alabama Ave., with the building farther back than it appears. The white building at the far right is Weida Gas Station on the northwest corner of Bridge and Alabama, replaced by Zenith's Standard Service and Used Cars in 1956. A number of gas stations and used car lots followed until October of 1962, when Ogren Brothers Garage and Standard gas station moved in and stayed put until 1973. The steeple in the distance is atop St. Mary's Catholic Church at 501-505 Turner Avenue N.W. Grand Rapids Public Library Photo Thanks to Sue Bogard for locating the photo. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Tom's post I found an angle that includes the Church's steeple, https://maps.app.goo.gl/ofTiVkdv1Zer8sp3A |
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