Reading Railroad - Locomotive Erecting Shops

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

Aarne H. Frobom wrote:

All three large steam shops in Michigan have survived, and are in use as warehouses or transshipment facilities: the GTW (1908) at Battle Creek, the PM (c. 1922) at Wyoming, and the MCRR at Jackson. The MC shop was heavily damaged by fire in the 1970's, but was re-roofed and is now the Miller heavy trucking firm.

Aarne Frobom

Aarne -

As an aside, one of the turntables at the Michigan Central (New York Central) in Jackson was donated to HVRM by Conrail in 1990, and moved by the membership to their museum site. The 100' table still sits at the museum and who knows, maybe one day we will actually find the funds to put it back in the ground!

Les Beckman (Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum/North Judson, Indiana)