Location: Oak Yard, Detroit, MI

Oak Yard is now an intermodal yard which services CSX and CP Rail trains in northwest Detroit. It is located at the junction of the Pere Marquette main line (Detroit to Chicago) and the PM West Detroit Branch (the original PM main line into downtown Detroit). The yard runs along the West Detroit branch east of the junction, between approximately Evergreen Street on the west and Greenfield Avenue on the east.

Location: 42o22.748'N / 83o13.520'W. 


Notes


Time Line

1951. Oak Yard is used as a storage yard with a track capacity of 877 cars. The C&O's West Detroit Branch runs east out of this yard and serves many industries located on that line. [COFTD]

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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