Location: Cheboygan, MI - MCRR Facilities

MC Cheboygan DepotNYC-DM Joint passenger stationNYC-DM Joint passenger stationNYC Cheboygan Freight HouseMCRR Frozen Water Tower at Cheboygan

Photo Info: Top, the MC Depot in Cheboygan in the early 1900's. [Dale Berry Collection] 2nd and 3rd photos, two views of the joint NYC/D&M passenger station, in 1967. [Charlie Whipp]. 4th photo, the NYC freight house in Cheboygan in 1967. [Charlie Whipp]. 5th photo, A very frozen Michigan Central water tower at Cheboygan, date unknown. [Greg Bunce collection]


Notes


Time Line

1911. Fire Sunday totally destroyed the freight sheds of the Michigan Central railroad and the Washburn-Crosby company's warehouse, entailing a loss of $25,000, fully insured. Four loaded cars were also destroyed and telegraph connections are down. This makes the fourth fire within a few days and the second one in as many nights at the MC yards. All evidence points to incendiarism, the four fires having all been started within a quarter mile radius of one another and in buildings unoccupied at night.; [DFP-1911-0704]

1917. The MC had an operator/clerk here around the clock. [TRT]


Coordinates

MC Depot - 46.642286, -84.484558

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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