GR&I: (Satellite)
PM: (Satellite)
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 Raymond Storey posted again Colin Harding: According to my 1940 Official Guide on both Pennsylvania & Pere Maquette...not sure which station this is. Dave Hickcox: Initials on the tender of the steam loco appear to be G.R. -- Probably the Grand Rapids & Indiana RR which was sold to the Pennsy in 1918. Just making an educated guess here. |
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.
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." |
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