Detroit, MI: Michigan Central Third Street Depot then Freight House

(Satellite, as with most big city passenger railroad facilities, the MC facilities are now gone.)

After the new MC depot was built in 1914, this facility was converted from a depot to a freight house.

 

Gordon 'Tim' Curtis posted

Detroit, Michigan. Michigan Central Depot.

Not posted, date c. 1905

Jim Kelling shared

Earlier Michigan Central Station in Detroit

Dennis DeBruler commented on Jim's share [AR1PN0000020061]
The MC station was south of the Union (Fort Street) Station along 3rd Avenue, which used to go all the way to the river. The depot has been converted to a freight house by the time this 1951 aerial was taken. The clock tower and central part of the roof have been removed. And a lot of the passenger tracks have been replaced by freight handling buildings. After all, the passenger trains had been served by the new MC station since 1914.

The buildings on the bottom of this photo where south of the Fort Street Union Depot, which is out-of-frame to the left. The building in the center was Cobo Hall and is now TCF Center. The clock tower and the roof over the central part have been removed from the depot.

Historic Detroit posted
Detroit Riverfront (1960s)
Photo from the Burton Historical Collection
Nick Sortzi: The building on the right is the former Michigan Central Station, being used as a New York Central Railroad freight station at the time of this photo. It was demolished a few years later. I’m assuming the building on the left is just an additional freight house.

Michael Harmon shared
MCRR freight station at 3rd and Fort Street. This used to be the passenger station until the big station was built in Corktown.
Craig Harris: The peaked roof building was the main part of the station. After it was abandoned as a passenger depot, many of the tracks were removed and the former track area was filled in with buildings to handle freight operations. The block of buildings that head to the lower right corner actually went on for quite a ways and were freight warehouses. In the day the MC/NYC handled a very large amount of LCL freight into and out of Detroit and had in many locations both Outbound and Inbound freight houses side by side, as was the case at this location.

As this map shows, MC used to have tracks south of Jefferson Avenue between 3rd and 10th Streets.

DeBruler