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New Buffalo, Michigan Turntable, July, 1998

 

The 90-foot turntable at the former PM locomotive facility in New Buffalo, Michigan. This photo was taken in July, 1998- within two years the turntable would be removed and relocated to Owosso for use at the Michigan State Trust for Railway Preservation's Steam Railroading Institute.

New Buffalo was once a significant engine terminal on the PM, offering westbound trains the last chance to refuel and top off their water tanks before leaving PM trackage a little over 20 miles to the southwest en route to Chicago. New Buffalo was also the point where the branch from LaCrosse, Indiana joined the PM's Chicago-Grand Rapids mainline.

Many of the PM's steam locomotives spent their last days on the dead line at New Buffalo before being hauled away to be cut down to scrap.

Photo by Fritz Milhaupt

 

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