Station: Lansing, MI - Union Station (MC/PM)

Lansing Union Station was located at Lansing just north of Michigan Avenue. This was a "union station" because it was also used by the Pere Marquette railroad.

Photo info:  Various views of the Michigan Central Lansing union station. Top, a colorized postcard view. 2nd photo, the station in a winter scene. [Alan Loftis collection]. 3rd photo, a Pere Marquette streamlined train is stopped at Lansing Union Station in 1946. [H.E. Smith photo, Al Smith collection]. 4th photo, another winter shot with a hot-shot CP Rail freight train heading eastbound (south) past the station on CSX trackage rights. 1994. [Charlie Whipp]. 5th photo a 2004 view of the station, now Clara's Restaurant. [Alan Loftis]. 5th and 6th views, inside the station in 2004. [Alan Loftis]

Notes

Time Line

1902. A new passenger station is built here by the MC, at a cost of $29,000. [MCR-1902]

1917. The MC had an operator-lerk here around-the-clock.  [TRT]