Chesaning, MI: Lost/MC Depot and Grain Elevator

Depot: (Satellite, according to the photos below, it was close to the curve in the tracks. I did not drop a pin because I could not find it in the aerial photo below.)

Elevator: (Satellite)

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History of Chesaning Michigan - Big Rock Beginnings

Chesaning grew along the Shiawassee with mills, farms, rail service, and Main Street parades. See how a Chippewa place-name and early industry shaped a Michigan river town between 1900 and 1930.

https://thumbwind.com/.../history-of-chesaning-michigan/...

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Chesaning.

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The photos imply that the depot was south of Broad Street. So that rules out the obvious rectangle, which is now part of a parking lot. Was the depot removed before this 1954 aerial?

May 1, 1954 @ 23,600; AR1VDI000050151

The town still has a grain elevator, and the 2005 SPV Map indicates the tracks were owned by Tuscola & Saginaw Bay (TSBY). But the grain elevator does not have rail service.

Street View, Jul 2024

The town had a small railyard.

1943/43 Chesaning Quad @ 62,500

The diversion dam shown in a couple of photos in thumbwind has been replaced by a fish ladder. The grey structure on the right is a "Riverboat Playland."

Street View, Jul 2024