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Location: Delray, MI - Wabash Roundhouse
During the steam era, the Wabash had a roundhouse just easy of Delray interlocking, on the north side of the Union Belt railroad. This is the current location of the I-75 overpass.
Photo Info: A map of the roundhouse from the 1910 Sanborn Insurance Maps. [SBM-1910]
Notes
Engine facility is used by all Wabash locomotives, as well as PRR freight and switch engines. The PRR passenger engines used the PM 21st street roundhouse. [PM45]
Comment from Peter Dudley:
Time Line
1924. The PRR uses this roundhouse for their Union Belt power.
1954. The Wabash moves their (now diesel) locomotives to a new diesel shop at Oakwood yard across the Rouge River. PRR power moves to Lincoln Yard. The roundhouse is closed. [TSD]
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