Railroad completed their track from
Lowell to Freeport in Nov.1887, they
listed two locomotives, one passenger
car and five flat cars. In this
photograph L.&H. No.2 is headed
north over the Coldwater River just
north of Freeport with two flats of
lumber from Fox's sawmill and their
one passenger coach.
Photograph from Fallasburg
Historical Society.
Banner wrote: "The first train to arrive
from the south over the new railroad
reached Belding at exactly 4o'clock
Monday afternoon. It was the work
train headed by the L.&H. No.1."
This photograph shows L.&H. No.1
at Belding after the extention from
Lowell was completed. No.1 had no
air brakes.
Photograph from Alvah N. Belding
Library.
1870's. Detroit & Milwaukee
No.10, the "St.Johns," captures the
scene. Note the bell on the pilot. This
station burned in 1895.
Photo, Gordon Lydeksen collection.
1900. We are about one block west
of the station that burned in 1895.
No.1073 was a class H-2, 4-4-0
built in 1882.
Photograph from a post card.
Independent says: " A side track has
been built to Fuller & Gowen's
shingle yard, where 5,000,000
shingles wait shipment and thousands
are manufactured daily.The firm ships
daily to Detroit a car load [30 cords]
of slab wood of stove length, the
refuse of the shingle mill." This photo
is Fuller & Gowen in Greenville. The
turnout in the bottom right hand
corner is known as a three way stub
switch. Detroit, Lansing & Lake
Michigan No.20 is standing in the
center. The next car is a D. L.&
L.M. flat car with a load of lumber.
The car behind the flat is a caboose
type of car with No.8 printed on the
side. Note the fire barrels on top of
the mill. Fuller & Gowen burned on
Nov.21, 1874 and was a total loss
Photo, Gordon Lydeksen collection..
This brick depot in Greenville
burned in November, 1908.
Wouldn't it be fun to be working
the flanger on this plow!
Photo, Gordon Lydeksen
collection.
around 1910. This photograph is a
southeast view. The railroad is now
the Pere Marquette at this date. Back
in Sept. 1870, the Greenville
Independent reported that the
construction train of the Ionia &
Lansing Railroad had reached
Greenville from Ionia.
This photo from a postcard.
2352 approaching Malta Jct. from
Lowell. This 2-8-2 is ex Pere
Marquette 1013. This is the site
where the Lowell & Hastings R.R.
had a tiff with the Detroit, Grand
Haven and Milwaukee R.R. when
they built the diamond to get over
into the village of Lowell in late 1890.
Photo, Gordon Leydeksen collection.
1037 east bound from Grand Rapids.
This engine was built by ALCO in
1918 for the NYC as No.5113. A
USRA type, the engine was sold to
Sydney & Lewisburg Railway. [Nova
Scotia] The MK-1s had a weight of
292,000 pounds with a boiler pressure
of 200 psi. Photo, Gordon Leydeksen
collection.