Location: Dearoad Yard, River Rouge, MI (D&TSL)

Dearoad Yard was the primary yard in the Detroit terminal for the Detroit & Toledo Shore Line railroad. It was located in River Rouge on their main line and was parallel to the MC and NYC River Rouge Yards. The D&TSL also had offices at this location including their dispatcher, and a roundhouse. [MCTC-1950]

Photo Info: Top, the D&TSL office building at Dearoad, in 1925. [Charles Geletzke Jr. collection]. 2nd image, a 1925 view showing the rebuild of the smaller turntable to 100 feet, accommodating new, longer locomotives. The new turntable was build around the old turntable. [Charles Geletzke Jr. collection]. 3rd image, the roundhouse at Dearoad in 1963. The 4-stall house was built in 1928 and dismantled in 1970. It had a 100 foot turntable. [E.L. Novak photo, C.H. Geletzke Jr. collection]. 4th photo, the coaling tower at Dearoad.  [Charles Geletzke Jr. collection]

Notes

The section bunk house and foreman's office was built here in 1910. The south end yard office and hostler's office and engine shed and car repair house was built in 1913. The yard and dispatcher's office was built in 1920. Dearoad had a 70-ton steel coaling station which was built in 1921. This location also had a 50,000 gallon water station which was described as a wood "tub" on a steel tower. There was also a 70' turntable here. [DTSL-1922]

Time Line

1913. The D&TSL builds a 5-stall engine house at Dearoad. It was destroyed by fire in 1927. [CGJ]

1921. The railroad builds a Ogle mechanical coaling station at Dearoad. It had a hoisting capacity of 30 tons per your and a storage capacity of 70 tons.

1928. The D&TSL builds a new 4-stall round house at Dearoad, with a 100' turntable. The round house was dismantled about 1969. [CGJ]