MICHIGAN CENTRAL RR – DETROITER TO NEW YORK
“Underground Facility” ??? I thought this was going to say buried cable or something… what kind of underground facility would be here ?
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MICHIGAN CENTRAL RR – DETROITER TO NEW YORK
“Underground Facility” ??? I thought this was going to say buried cable or something… what kind of underground facility would be here ?
really great stuff.
thanks for the post.
love these photos .. days long gone. lt must be tunnels, a switch station?
“underground facility” means just that–a buried cable. in the phone company they refer to their physical plant (ie, cables, terminals, crossboxes, etc) as “facilities”.
there is a such thing however as a “CEV”, or Controlled Environmental Vault, which is basically a weatherproof underground room supplied with its own electricity where multiple “facilities” come together and can be worked on or replaced. these are kinda rare though.
love the old MCRR stuff btw
Seeing that year 1933 on that one bridge, just shows you how booming the railroads were at that time. This was at the height of the great depression and I’m pretty sure you don’t see too many things with a 1930′s marking. And just to think, my grandparents were teenagers or in their early 20′s at that time! BTW, love that Michigan Central Detroiter to New York bridge pic, great photos Dfunk!
Fat thanks to Old Skool for the heads up on the MCRR ghost sign still being on that bridge, I thought it was gone but was looking at the wrong side of the bridge !
I thought that too about the 1933 dates on several of the concrete bridges. Perhaps WPA projects ? I included the concrete walkways that were built along the roads to get people up the graded inclines, they are all over in some areas toward the west side. I imagine thats because there used to be houses standing along side the tracks. I followed the tracks from Milwaukee Junction (Milwaukee and Woodward) to Jefferson on the west side.
Oops – I forgot to add a few photos with the actual train in them – haha! I put those up today.
Great post dfunk!
Great stuff Dfunk, like you said everyone loves trains. As tough as the 1930′s were a lot of stuff got accomplished during that period. Look at all the Post Offices and Court Houses with 1930′s dates on them. Not to mention projects like the dams out west and structures like the Golden Gate bridge. Where are the infrastructure projects now that can put the country to work?