Station: Penn, MI (Cass County)

Penn DepotPenn DepotPenn was settled around 1869 and named Jamestown. The name was changed to Penn, the name of the township, at the request of the post office. [MPN] The town was a station stop on the Grand Trunk Western main line about five miles northeast of Cassopolis in Cass County.

Photo info: Top, the depot at Penn. [Robert Hibbard Collection]. Bottom, another view of the depot with a train along side. [T. J. Gaffney Collection]


Notes


Time Line

1915. The GTW had a 13 car passing track here. [GTOS-1915-1102]

1917. The GTW had an agent here during the day shift. Telegraph call was "V". [TRT]

1931. The MPUC allows the GTW railway to change its station at Penn from an agency station to a non-agency station in charge of a care-taker. [MPUC-1931]

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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