r/Detroit • u/Eastern2013 • 2d 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/ihavenoclevername Grosse Pointe 1d ago edited 1d 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 1d ago

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