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MCRR Station - Detroit - Directory Listing by Floor
The following is a directory listing of all offices and rooms at the Michigan Central depot as of 1928, reprinted from a Polk Directory:
| Basement | ||
| Stationary Dept. | ||
| Signal Electrical Dept. | ||
| Ground Floor | ||
| Union News Co. office | ||
| Union News Co. restaurant | ||
| Station Master | ||
| Ticket Office | ||
| Baggage Rooms | ||
| Detroit Transfer Co. | ||
| Detroit Cab Co. | ||
| Michigan Bell Telephone Co. | ||
| Parcel Room | ||
| Travelers Aid Society | ||
| Union News Co. Barber Shop | ||
| Custodian | ||
| Union News Co. novelties | ||
| MCRR Reading Room | ||
| Union News Co. baths | ||
| Union News Co. cigar stand No. 8 | ||
| Union News Co. drug store | ||
| Detroit Convention & Tourists' Bureau | ||
| Western Union Teleg. Co. | ||
| Mezzanine | ||
| M-1 | Supervisor of Shops | |
| M-10 | Paymaster | |
| M-16 | Supt. of Telegraph | |
| M-22 | Telephone Office | |
| M-24 | Telegraph Office | |
| M-26 | Conductor's Room | |
| M-28 | Brakeman's & Baggagemen's Room | |
| M-35 | General Ticket Agent - NYC | |
| M-36 | Ticket Receiver | |
| Storage Floor | ||
| S-2 | Pullman Co. | |
| S-7 | Railway Mail Service | |
| Pine | Division Engineer (Detroit Div.) | |
| P-2 | General Baggage Agent | |
| P-4-5 | Division Forman of Building | |
| P-7 | Mail Rooms | |
| P-46 | Vacant | |
| First Floor | ||
| 100 | Vacant | |
| 103 | Treasurer | |
| 107 | Chief of Police | |
| 110 | Chief Dispatcher (Detroit Div.) | |
| 114 | Superintendent - Detroit Div. | |
| Superintendent - Detroit Pass. Term. | ||
| 116 | Trainmaster - Detroit Div. | |
| Trainmaster - Detroit Pass. Term. | ||
| 122 | Timekeeper Dept. | |
| 125 | Land Valuation Dept. | |
| 133 | Supt. of Car Service (Demurrage) | |
| 134 | Tracing Dept. | |
| 139 | Superintendent of Car Service | |
| Second Floor | ||
| 200 | Assistant Freight Traffic Manager | |
| 202 | Traffic Manager | |
| 207 | Assistant General Passenger Agent | |
| 210 | General Freight Agent | |
| 213 | Ass't. General Freight Agent | |
| 215 | Michigan Freight Committee | |
| 218 | Ass't. General Frt. Agent - Coal, Coke, Ore | |
| 219 | Tariff Bureau | |
| 228 | Division Freight Ass't. Inc. | |
| 239 | Merchant's Dispatch Inc. | |
| 246 | Purchasing Agent | |
| 250-51 | Ass't. General Freight Agent | |
| Third Floor | ||
| 300 | MCRR Corporate Office | |
| Vice President - MCRR Co. | ||
| Canada Southern Ry. Co. | ||
| Chicago Kalamazoo & Saginaw Ry. | ||
| Detroit Manufacturers Railroad | ||
| Detroit River Tunnel Co. | ||
| Lansing Transit Ry. Co. | ||
| St. Clair & Western RR Co. | ||
| Battle Creek & Sturgis Ry. Co. | ||
| 302 | Passenger Bureau | |
| 303 | General Counsel | |
| 307-18 | Law Department Gen. Counsel | |
| 313 | Chief Surgeon | |
| 321 | District Claim Agent | |
| 330 | NYC Ass't. General Freight Agent | |
| 336 | Agricultural Agent | |
| 337 | Real Estate and Tax Agent | |
| Lansing & Saginaw RR Land Grant | ||
| 351 | Valuation Department | |
| Fourth Floor | ||
| 400 | Assistant Vice Pres. & Gen. Manager | |
| 403 | Ass't. to General Manager | |
| 404 | Engineer of Agreements | |
| 405 | Supervisor Passenger Service | |
| 407 | General Superintendent | |
| 415 | Superintendent Rolling Stock | |
| 418 | Chief Statistion | |
| 426 | Wage Bureau | |
| 435 | Superintendent of Motive Power | |
| 445 | Master Car Builder | |
| 447 | Mechanical Engineer | |
| Fifth Floor | ||
| 503 | Chief Engineer | |
| 505 | Ass't. Chief Engineer | |
| 507 | Principal Ass't. Engineer | |
| 508 | Engineering Accountant | |
| 509 | Chief Engineer's Drafting Room | |
| 524 | Blue Print Room | |
| 532 | Division Engineer | |
| 545 | Signal & Electric Engineer | |
| 550 | Bridge Engineers | |
| Sixth Floor | ||
| 609 | Auditor Freight Accounts | |
| Seventh Floor | ||
| 707 | Auditor Passenger Accounts | |
| 713 | Freight Claim Agent | |
| 715` | Aditor Freight Overcharge Claims | |
| Eighth Floor | ||
| 803 | General Auditor MCRR | |
| TH&B Ry Co. | ||
| Lansing Manufacturers railroad | ||
| TH&B Transportation Co. | ||
| 807 | Ass't. General Auditor MCRR | |
| Mackinac Transportation Co. | ||
| 808 | Chief Clerk Auditors Office | |
| 815 | Station Accountant | |
| 820 | Valuation Accountant | |
| 821 | Traveling Auditors | |
| 845-47 | Auditors Disbursements | |
| 849 | Ass't. to Auditor Subsidiary Lines | |
| Ninth Floor | ||
| 936 | Maintenance and Capital Expenditures | |
| 941 | Auditor Passenger Accounts | |
| 942 | Auditor Disbursements (Stores) | |
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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