Friday, January 17, 2020

Michigan Central 14th Street Yard and Roundhouse

(Satellite, the roundhouse would have been in Mark Twain Park)

MS'c passenger engine servicing yard was tucked away, rather literally, in a corner of IC's passenger operations. Michigan Central also had roundhouses in Kennsington and Gibson Yards. IHB now owns Gibson Yard and they removed the hump yard to make room for their auto mixing yard. But they kept the roundhouse!
Bob Lalich commented on a posting
Very interesting photo David! Note the small roundhouse near the St Charles Air Line approach, which belonged to the Michigan Central. According to the historic aerials site, the roundhouse was gone by 1962, so the time frame of the photo is between 1955 and 1962.

1953 Jackson Park Quadrangle @ 1:24,000

Jeff Ayersman commented on Dave's post
It used to actually go north around Central Station, but a long term legal battle to address the sheds/warehouses on Indiana Ave around the St. Lukes hospital complex required them to reconfigure the tracks to what you see today. 
Found this in hospital year book.
Here is view looking south in Indiana toward 15th/16th
David Daruszka And the old Michigan Central Roundhouse is still there in this photo.

Alan Kline commented on a post
This is a 1942 track chart for the Air Line. 

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