Digital Collection
2012.020.663

Postcard

Michigan Central Station, showing Train Sheds, Detroit, Mich.

Color postcard depicting the back of Michigan Central Station, with train sheds and railroad tracks in the foreground.
Printed on verso: New Michigan Central Station, located near Michigan Avenue, between 15th and 17th Sts., covers 21 acres; total cost, $15,000,000.00. There will be eleven tracks in the station that will accommodate 135 passenger coaches. The accommodations for passengers will not be outdone by any Railroad Station in the world, as the conveniences include a drug store with facilities for the care of invalids, change rooms where travelers may, at a nominal cost, obtain shower baths and change clothing.

Date
c. 1913
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