At Elberta, Michigan. Are the roundhouse and turntable still there? On an abandoned Ann Arbor line, at Lake Michigan.

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> At Elberta, Michigan. Are the roundhouse and
> turntable still there?

The Elberta yard was treated to an environmental remendiation, so all the track structures are gone, and I expect this includes the turntable. My equally fuzzy guess is that the coal dock is still there. The "roundhouse" was intentionally not demolished, as a historic structure, but it has not been stabilized or re-used. That would be re-used for the second time, as it's square and not really a roundhouse in spite of being served by a turntable. It is actually the lower part of a very early 19th-centery limestone kiln that was abandoned and then converted to an enginehouse by the thrifty (or marginal) Ann Arbor. Another re-used structure still on the site is the ferry ticket office, which was a former life-saving station.

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