I am curious to learn what equipment survives from the old Detroit and Mackinac Rwy. What is preserved and what is off forgotten in a field.

Michigan Transit Museum
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> I am curious to learn what equipment
> survives from the old Detroit and Mackinac
> Rwy. What is preserved and what is off
> forgotten in a field.

Dave-

This is what I know of, and its far from complete.

Henry Ford Museum:

D&M 0-6-0 (To my knowledge, only D&M Steamer preserved)

D&M Wooden Combine, I believe #203.

D&M Wooden Caboose W-52 (looks much like a PM A500 or A600 car)

Grayling-
D&M (Ex-PRR N5C I believe) caboose #207, possibly 40 foot boxcar as well.

Cheboygen or Alpena-
A troop sleeper that was converted into an office. Still labeled Detroit & Mackinac on the side. I think the D&MHS has a picture of it on their website, which has made leaps and bounds since it began.

Peck or Sandusky-
D&M wood caboose, no cupola. She was sold by the D&M to the Detroit, Caro & Sandusky and became their #1 around 1935 or so. She was in REALLY rough shape, and was sitting in a farmer's field as a shed. Its been at least 10 years since I last saw it, so it may have finally fallen in. You could still read "1" above the door the last time I saw it.

This does raise one VERY important point, I might add-- never think that a piece of abandoned rail equipment is mundane, or too ordinary to photograph. There have been a couple of opportunities that I really blew in the past because I didn't record them when I had the chance. A couple of cars and structures I should have taken pictures of in my Ohio days come to mind. For instance, I took (and video-ed!) the old Heath tower on the PRR-Panhandle, but I never thought to take a shot of the little building kitty-corner from it, because I assumed it was nothing. Later I learned it was NYC station at the junction, just in really bad shape. Now there both gone. **sigh***



Port Huron, Michigan
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