Location: Port Huron, MI - PM Facilities

Pere Marquette facilities in Port Huron included a passenger station downtown, a small yard and roundhouse.

Photo Info: Top and 2nd photo, photos of the PM roundhouse ruins near 16th Street in Port Huron with the turntable in front. Taken in 1977. [Bob Gray, TJ Gaffney collection]. 3rd photo, a 1950 Sanborn map describing the same roundhouse. [TJ Gaffney collection]. 4th & 5th photos, the roundhouse ruins, now owned by C&O. In 1972. 6th photo, the CSX Port Huron Yard in 2005. [Dan Meinhard]. 7th photo, PM locomotive 1101 at the round house. [Bob Gray, TJ Gaffney collection]

Notes

The PM had a 85' three-bearing, electrically operated turntable at the roundhouse in Port Huron. It was removed and preserved in Mayville, MI at a U-Haul store on M-24. [Photo, Dave Fulkerth]

Time Line

1902. PM installs a new coaling station and a new engine ouse on the Almont Branch. [MCR-1903]

1912. July 25. The Pere Marquette has awarded the contract for the construction of a 12-stall roundhouse, to cost approximately $40,000, to Rabbit & Sons, Toledo, Ohio. [RG]

1934. The Pere Marquette roundhouse, 2248 Sixteenth street, was damaged about $1,000 by fire today. A spark from an open fire box door of a locomotive in the roundhouse ignited the cab roof, which set fire to the wooden roof of the building. The flames spread quickly and the entire eastern section of the roof was ablaze when three companies of firemen arrived. The fire was brought under control before two other locomotives which were in the roundhouse for repairs were endangered. Hundreds of persons, attracted by billows of smoke and the screaming sirens of the fire trucks gathered at the scene of the fire. Employees of the PM aided the firemen in laying the long lines of hose from fire plugs some distance away. [PHTH-1934-0521]