Station: Owosso, MI - AARR Facilities

The Ann Arbor railroad and its predecessors established a division point here on its line from Toledo to Frankfort on Lake Michigan. The other division point was at Cadillac, which roughly divided the road into three operating divisions. As a division point, the railroad had locomotive service facilities, car shop and a yard.

Image info: Inside the Ann Arbor railroad shop at Owosso in 1983. #393 and 390 are joined by a third locomotive. [Greg Bunce]

Notes

The Steam Railroading Institute obtained the former Pere Marquette 90' electrically operated turntable from New Buffalo and relocated it here in 1999. It was still waiting for installation in 2001.

Time Line

1923. The Ann Arbor railroad will begin work soon on new shops on a 17-acre site east of Owosso donated by the Chamber of Commerce some years ago. Newman Erb, of New York, president of the road announced last week. Erb said the company will build a new roundhouse and machine shop. The present buildings are inadequate, but the company has been unable to finance the construction of new buildings until now. They will cost several hundred thousand dollars. [LDP-1923-0502]