Saturday, January 5, 2013
MCS after 25 years
I was reading on the Detroit Free Press' Facebook Page about the 25th Anniversary of the closing of the Michigan Central Station in January 1988. The station was built a century ago, and had a long history of being a passenger train station that was very busy on most days. Amtrak was the last train service to use the station, and are now located at a small station at 11 Baltimore in Midtown. The station is currently owned by Manuel "Matty" Moroun, the owner of the nearby Ambassador Bridge. My mother had told me many a time how my grandpaerents left for their honeymoon in the late 1940s. I can imagine offices or small businesses in the old train station tower, and more than freight trains passing by the station.
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