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Location: Delray, MI - Wabash Roundhouse
During the steam era, the Wabash had a roundhouse just easy of Delray interlocking, on the north side of the Union Belt railroad. This is the current location of the I-75 overpass.
Photo Info: A map of the roundhouse from the 1910 Sanborn Insurance Maps. [SBM-1910]
Notes
Engine facility is used by all Wabash locomotives, as well as PRR freight and switch engines. The PRR passenger engines used the PM 21st street roundhouse. [PM45]
Comment from Peter Dudley:
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad (aka Wabash & Western, later Wabash Railroad) built a small ten-stall roundhouse, shortly after the railroad's 1881 arrival in Detroit. This engine terminal was later replaced by a 40-stall roundhouse, located closer to Delray Junction. Both facilities were located north of the Wabash (later Union Belt of Detroit) mainline. The newer roundhouse was demolished during the 1950s -- the site was included in today's Fisher Freeway (I-75) alignment. The original roundhouse was located east of Harbaugh Street, and south of Cedar Street, which no longer exists (1889 Sanborn map, slightly-shopped). The facility also appears on an 1884 Sanborn map.
Time Line
1924. The PRR uses this roundhouse for their Union Belt power.
1954. The Wabash moves their (now diesel) locomotives to a new diesel shop at Oakwood yard across the Rouge River. PRR power moves to Lincoln Yard. The roundhouse is closed. [TSD]
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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