Station: Rushton, MI

WB GTW train at Rushton MIWB GTW train at Rushton MI Rushton StationGT train at Rushton Rushton was settled in the very southeast corner of Livingston County about 1884 when the Grand Trunk Western Jackson Branch came through here west from South Lyon. [MPN]

The GTW maintained daily passenger or mixed train service through Rushton, using a motor car in later years.

Photo info: Top and 2nd photo, this is a westbound GTW passenger train with locomotive 1049, crossing the Rushton trestle at Rushton in the early 1900's. 3rd photo, a view of the simple station at Rushton, at Rushton Road, 3 miles west of South Lyon. 4th photo, a GT passenger train at Rushton around the turn of the century. Note the small, old, baggage car behind the engine. [CMUL]


Notes

The railroad did not have a freight siding here.


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Bibliography

The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:

  • [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
  • [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
  • [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
  • [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
  • [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI

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