Location: Hollow Yard, Lansing MI

Hollow Yard was a stub-end yard located along the Grand River, west of Martin Luther King Blvd in Lansing. This yard was reached from the west side of Lansing via the Lansing Manufacturer's Railroad (joint MC/NYC) and serviced the Oldsmobile Plant.


Notes

This was a 9-track stub-end yard. The Grand Trunk Western main line was adjacent and there was an interchange crossover between the GTW and an interchange track just west of Hollow Yard.

The railroad, now operated by the Jackson-Lansing railroad (JAIL), still operates this yard, including a pair of tracks going into the plant. The track appears to go under a parking garage east of MLK Blvd. The entire operation of this line appears to be unused as of 2023.

In 1984, referred to as "New Hollow Yard".


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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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