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Location: 12th Street Engine House, Detroit, MI (PM)
The Pere Marquette had a large locomotive roundhouse at 12th Street, just west of Fort Street Union Station.
Photo info: Top, an aerial photo of the turntable and roundhouse near Fort Street Union Station in Detroit. The PM boat yard is on the back along the Detroit river. A switch engine is making up an outbound train for the depot. [American Memory Collection, U.S. Library of Congress]
Notes
Union Belt steam and diesels were serviced here. [TSD]
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Bibliography
The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:
- [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
- [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
- [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
- [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
- [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI
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