It sounds like the post above might refer to the old Ann Arbor Railroad freight house that stood near the warehouse that is to become the SRI exhibit space. This structure was badly deteriorated when it burned 6 or 8 years ago. This was on the same day as the Project 1225 barbecue in the adjacent field, but these events were not related. There is no yard office.
Few Ann Arbor structures are left in Owosso aside from the engine and car shops in use by the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway. A derelict steel workshop building and fuel tanks were removed this year, and the powerhouse and brick backshop that formerly housed PM 1225 was demolished two years ago. A new 3-track shed for the SRI locomotives is being erected now off the recently-completed turntable. The site is being fenced. Access by visitors is possible again, but only from the west off of Washington Street (highway M-71). No visitors may enter through the shops of the T&SB Rwy. Co.
Across Washington Street, the GTW station is in a fair state of preservation as a VFW hall. The wood portion of the GTW freight house still stands, but its brick headbuilding was demolished about 10 years ago.
Aarne Frobom
The Steam Railroading Institute
P. O. Box 665
Owosso, MI 48867-0665
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