Union: (
Satellite)
Original
MA Tower Location: (
Satellite, southwest quadrant of Michigan Ave. and the tracks.)
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Walter Jung posted
Union Station, Lansing, Michigan - real photo postcard, postmarked 1905.
Robert Warrick shared |
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Raymond Storey posted
LANSING MI |
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| 1965 Lansing North and South @ 24,000 |
LS&MS Depot
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Walter Jung posted
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Depot, Lansing Michigan - undivided back postcard, not posted, date c. 1904-07. Located along the Grand River, across from what is now Adado Park.
Jim Kelling shared
Lansing Michigan (Lake Shore & Michigan Southern) |
The railroad from the south that joins the Pere Marquette through town was the Michigan Central. They shared a
Union Station that is extant. The other railroad from the south that went along the river was the LS&MS. The east/west railroad across the south part of town was the Grand Trunk.
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| 1958 Lansing Quad @ 62,600 |
Thanks the the railroad bridge that is now a
trail bridge, we know that the road across the top of the above topo excerpt is Saginaw Street. The topo map is not very accurate, so I got an aerial photo. Again, we can correlate the aerial with today's satellite images using the trail bridge. The topo map indicates that the sole purpose of the bridge was to access some industries on the left bank of the river.
In this photo taken from the State Capital that is looking down Michigan Avenue, the station is in the middle of the far left side.
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Gary boynton posted
Stand Pipe center right in image
[The standpipe implies that there used to be a water supply pumping station long the river.] |
MA Tower
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Doug Hefty posted
"MA" after dark. Fittingly named for Michigan Avenue, "MA" was located just south of the Lansing passenger station used by C&O and, at one time, by NYC. Chessie had trackage rights over the former NYC between "MA" and North Lansing--controlled from "MA." (As a kid in Lansing in the 1950's, I remember a tower up at N. Lansing as well.) Additionally, they had track rights over Chessie from N. Lansing to Turner St to access their Belt Line customers. The yellow light is their version of the train order signal; however, per timetable special instructions, it did not apply to eastward Chessie trains. Pretty sure the tower survived into NS days. As a 12-year-old in 1963, I went up into the tower one time, but only hung around for about a half hour. The operator gifted me a blank NYC train order form and Clearance Form A! Photo credit: Unknown, but may be Dennis Schmidt? Year unknown. |
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Michael Frezell commented on Doug's post
Here is the restored MA Tower at the Lansing Model Railroad Club, which was moved there in 2016. Conrail closed the tower in 1986 and it was moved to Lansing's Old Town that same year. Our goal is to put our train dispatcher in the tower. |
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