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  • Control Room at the Ann Pere Crossing, Livingston County, Michigan

    Control Room at the Ann Pere Crossing, Livingston County, Michigan

    Crossing of Ann Arbor Railroad and Pere Marquette Railroad.

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  • Pere Marquette Depot, Brighton, Michigan

    This is a photograph of the Pere Marquette Depot in Brighton, Michigan.  It was located on West Main Street and was razed in the 1960's.   According to the "Old Brighton Village" Book, 1974, the first train came to Brighton on July 4, 1871 and gave free rides to all the townspeople.
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  • Ann Arbor Railroad Depot, 126 Wetmore, Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Railroad, Howell, Michigan

    This is a photograph captioned "Depot with Ed Beach", and was included in David Finney's book, "Images of America, Howell', and it notes that this brick depot was built on the north side of Howell by the Ann Arbor Railroad in 1885-1886.  To the right, there is a partial view of an omnibus from the Whipple House which was owned by Henry Whipple.   In the background is the Michigan Avenue Bridge.

    The date of the photograph is unknown.
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  • Steam Train #2493 at the Ann Arbor Railroad Depot , 123 Wetmore Street, Howell, Michigan

    Steam Train #2493 at the Ann Arbor Depot in Howell, Michigan

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  • Coal Cars at the Ann Arbor Railroad Coal Dock

    Coal Cars at the Ann Arbor Railroad Coal Dock

    This image, along with other smaller and limited injury/loss accidents and abandonments where this statement is included, are believed to have combined over the years into the myth of a "Locomotive" in the swamp adjacent to the 1886 TAA&NM depot. likely, only pieces of rolling stock such as wood frame cars that were too costly to retrieve as opposed to replace, if any, remain. Some of these pieces are said to be visible during extreme dry spells.
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  • McKeen Motor Car, at the Cohoctah Station Depot, Livingston, Michigan

    This is a photograph of a McKeen Motor Car stopped at the Cohoctah Depot, Livingston Michigan.   This gas train ran between Toledo, Ohio, and Frankfort Michigan from 1910 to 1912.  The home base was in Howell, Michigan.  This picture is in Cohoctah.

    The Ann Arbor Railroad owned five of these cars which were gasoline powered.  They were also called "doodlebugs".

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  • Ann Arbor Railroad Freight House - March 16, 1945

    Ann Arbor Railroad Freight House - March 16, 1945 was located about 100 feet east of the 1886 depot where the parking lot is now being constructed.  The structure suffered a fire in the 1980's and was then torn down.  Several burnt freight documents from the fire printed and penned in the earlier years of the Ann Arbor Railroad operation are in the collection of the Howell Area Historical Society.
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  • Handcars on the Ann Arbor Railroad

    Handcars on the Ann Arbor Railroad

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  • Train #1611 Stopped at Ann Arbor Railroad Depot in Howell, Michigan

    Train #1611 Stopped at Ann Arbor Railroad Depot in Howell, Michigan

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  • Ann Arbor Railroad Coal Dock -1951

    Ann Arbor Railroad Coal Dock -1951

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