Location: Bay City, MI - MCRR Shop Facilities

The Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw established their first shops in West Bay City, just northwest of the MC drawbridge near State Street and East North Union Street. On Google maps you can still see the cement footings of the old locomotive roundhouse.

The JL&S became part of the Michigan Central shortly after construction of the yard. The shop location included a roundhouse.

Photo info: A 1975 photo of the former MC shops at Bay City West Side. [Charlie Whipp]

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Time Line

1875. The MC officials to-day staked out the location at Wenona (West Bay City) for the car shops for the Mackinaw, Detroit & Bay City Railroad and Saginaw division of their road. The shops will give three hundred men employment. [DFP-1875-0814]

1879. The D&BC railroad company are about to erect a machine and repair shot 88 x 64, and a blacksmith shop 1;4 x 16 near their roundhouse in Bay City. The city has granted them water free for a term of ten years. The works will bring with them about fifty families. [DFP-1878-0508]