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Station: Niles, MI - Garden City Fan Company
The Garden City Fan Company built industrial and other fans at this sprawling facility in Niles, MI. The facility continue to manufacture fan parts until 2004.
Photo Info: A switch engine works at the yard in front of the sprawling Garden City Fan manufacturing facility. Note that one box car is owned by the Erie & Michigan Railway and Navigation Co., which was a 5-mile long railroad in Alabaster, MI which was operated by the Detroit & Mackinac Ry.
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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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