Fron the RR Station Historical Society e-mail list:

Several pan views of the exterior and interior of the big--city depot most likely the worst lost cause in rail preservation this century: Detroit's looming, majestic, Beaux-Arts monument, the 1913-built Michigan Central terminal, now abandoned and crumbling badly, abandoned by Amtrak in 1988, owned by the private Detroit International Bridge Co. since 1996:

http://photo.photojpl.com/tour/michigan ... erior.html

Click on the menus at upper right of that page for more rooms to view. (HUGE files, recommended for either high-speed internet or masochistic dial-up users only.)

Much more to the story at Preservation Magazine's website:
http://www.preservationnation.org/magaz ... -time.html

Pitiful! Looks like "Life After Humans" on the History Channel. Will probably eventually be imploded some day.

As in everywhere else, the disgusting scumbags have been busy with their cans of spray paint. What a sad sight.

If the economy in Detroit were better, it might make one heck of a hotel!

Later!
Mr. Ed

Thanks to movie magic, the Michigan Central Depot was magically relocated to "Mission City," fictitiously 22miles north of the Hoover Dam, for the movie "Transformers."