Location: Battle Creek Yard, Battle Creek, MI - CN

Battle Creek Yard is a major freight yard on the east side of Battle Creek in Calhoun County. The yard office is located at Hampton and Raymond streets.

Notes

This is a crew change point for the CN. At one time, the CN had engine service facilities here.

Telegraph call for Nichols Yard was "HI".

Time Line

1907. The structural steel work on the Grand Trunk locomotive shops, one of the largest industrial additions of the year in Michigan, will be begun Monday. W.H. Radcliffe, superintendent of the American Bridge Co. and P.B. Johnson, engineer of the company, have arrived. The Bridge company's contract includes the monster machine shop, boiler shop, power plant, forge, and crane runways. Enough steel-workmen will be put at work to finish the skeleton within five months. [DFP-1907-0715]

1915, This was known as Nichols Yard at milepost 177.39. [GTOS-1915-1102]