Ithaca, MI: Lost/Ann Arbor Depot and Wood Grain Elevators

(Satellite, it was on an angle along the curve of the track on the north side.)

Gratiot County History Time Machine posted
Time Machine - From Ithaca to Detroit
 A shipment of 4,500 dozen eggs leaves Ithaca for Detroit. Nelson and Mathews shipped this order in 1921.
Randy Ahrens shared
Ithaca Michigan

Durand Union Station-Michigan Railroad History Museum posted two photos with the comment:

Today’s featured depot is the Ann Arbor station in Ithaca 🚂

Ithaca was settled around 1850 and is located between Ashley and Alma. The Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railroad reached Ithaca in 1884 and began regular operations that same year. Presumably, the depot was built shortly thereafter. The photo on the bottomshows a later version of the Ann Arbor depot.

In September of 1895, the Ann Arbor Railroad Company filed to acquire the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan at foreclosure. 

Unfortunately, this depot no longer exists. 

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Citations: 

Meints, Graydon. “Backward in Time Building - The Ann Arbor Railroad”. Train Web. http://www.trainweb.org/.../Buildin.../Bldg_AnnArbor-RR.html. 

"Station: Ithaca, MI". Michigan Railroads. https://www.michiganrailroads.com/.../93.../840-ithaca-mi

1, at Facebook resolution

2, at Facebook resolution

EarthExplorer: May 1, 1954 @ 23,600; AR1VDI000030010

Gratiot County History Time Machine posted

Time Machine - It was Harvest Time 

Farmers pull in and wait to unload wheat at the Ithaca Elevator.

It was July 25, 1968.

Randy Ahrens shared
I remember days like this in the late 60s.

The town has three grain elevators. And each still has a wood grain elevator part.

Street View, Jul 2023

Street View, Jul 2023

Here is the elevator in the above photo.

Street View, Aug 2019

Mtnclimberjoe Rail Photography posted

After working the Zeeland Farm Services complex outside of town, the Great Lakes Central's ONTN passes by an old grain elevator as it gets back on the move north through Ithaca, Michigan. Powering the train are two EMD SD35's, which were acquired from MRL and patched to enter service.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mtnclimberjoe50/54074871255/

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10/7/2021

GLC Cadillac District

Ithaca, MI

GLC ONTN (Local; Owosso, MI to Cadillac, MI)

GLC 383 SD35 Ex. MRL 705, IMRL 705, MRL 1553, NW 1553 Blt. 1965

GLC 384 SD35 Ex. MRL 702, IMRL 702, MRL 1546, NW 1546 Blt. 1965