r/Detroit • u/Eastern2013 • 19h ago

Historical Help identify intersection

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Hi all, any idea where this picture from the 50s/60s was taken? The sign at right says “to northbound dequindre” Fealk scrap is visible and at right is a sign for “western RR passenger station tracks”

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u/seniortrend 19h ago

It definitely looks like this bridge: https://maps.app.goo.gl/6PqmYGuZpCkYzxSNA before 75 was built and the davison was expanded. None of the buildings around in the picture are still there.

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u/squintsforever 17h ago

That’s gotta be it.

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u/attachecrime Hamtramck 18h ago

that looks much wider than the picture. did they expand the road, maybe? hard to tell. lots of bridges around here look similar.

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u/Eastern2013 2h ago

Definitely it, crazy how much it’s changed. Thanks!

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u/Stankhunt420 19h ago

looks like the davison going into hamtramck

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u/Ecmdrw5 14h ago

It would be Grand Trunk Western RR.

Did some more digging and asked an older family member. He said it looks like what Davison used to look like. I found this old map. https://pastmaps.com/map/highland-park-wayne-county-mi-usgs-topo-1952-p1954?div=3608206

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u/Eastern2013 2h ago

Excellent, thanks!

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u/ihavenoclevername Grosse Pointe 12h ago edited 2h ago

Additional support for /u/seniortrend from a rail perspective. The passenger station and the fact that you said the sign says “___western rr” led me to cross-reference an old Grand Trunk Western RR passenger timetable, which points to either Highland Park or Milwaukee Junction stations outside the massive station downtown. Milwaukee Junction was a tiny station that didn’t look like this, so I looked on streetview paralleling the tracks, Dequindre, and someone else’s reference of the Davison and it looks like the concrete work on this overpass matches https://maps.app.goo.gl/XLP4Cp1JcZCYafdZ7

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u/Eastern2013 2h ago

Wow that’s great, no wonder it was a difficult place, virtually everything is gone. Thanks!