Durand, MI Grand Trunk Western Railroad, Durand Union Station Sign

William Rapp

1993-10-02

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Railroad Stations
Grand Trunk Western Railroad

Durand (Mi.)

1990-1999

Sign States: DURAND UNION STATION Designed by Detroit architects Spier & Rohns, the 239-foot-long Grand Trunk Western Union Depot originally featured a spacious waiting room, a popular dining room, a lunch counter, areas for baggage and express mail, and telegraph and railroad offices. It was built of Missouri granite brick and Bedford cut stone and originally roofed in slate. Later roofs were of red tile and, in more recent years, of asphalt. Once the largest station in outstate Michigan, the depot is also one of the largest in a small town anywhere in the United States. On march 27, 1960, Grand Trunk Western Railroad train No. 56 left the depot for Detroit. It was the last regularly scheduled passenger train in the United States to be pulled by a steam locomotive.

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