Location: Bay City, MI - Union Station (PM/D&M)

The Pere Marquette depot was built and opened in 1904 at Adams and 4th Streets in downtown Bay City on the east side of the Saginaw river. This was at least the second railroad station in east Bay City.

The station was used by the Pere Marquette and later by the Chesapeake & Ohio railroads until 1951 when service was discontinued by PM to east Bay City. (Note: Passenger rail service continued to west Bay City by the New York Central).

This PM depot was also used by the Detroit & Mackinac railway (though the D&M also used the NYC east side depot for a period of time).

Photo Info: Top, a view of the PM depot shortly after it was built. [CMUL]. 2nd photo, a postcard view of Union Station with a southbound locomotive and switch stand in view. 3rd photo, another postcard view in 1907. The remainder are 2010 views. [Jim Sinclair].

Notes

Time Line

1899. The agents of the Flint & Pere Marquette and Detroit & Mackinac railroads today acquired possession of the last piece of property on Jefferson street, from Second street to Third, and this lets out the news of a new union depot which has been suppressed for several weeks. The railroads now have a striip of land reaching from Second to Fifth and averaging 200 feet in width on which to erect a depot and lay approaches. The Flint & Pere Marquette will ask the common council for the closing of  Fourth avenue, and the Detroit & Mackinac will asked to be given the east half of Washington Park, according to the promise of the citizen's meeting three years ago. With these concessions on the part of the city, the railroads promise to do the handsome thing in the way of a passenger station. The present common council is pugnacious and not especially in love with the F&PM. [DFP-1899-0520]

1903. The new brick station at Bay City is nearly complete. [MCR-1903]