The two-and-a-half-storey Durand Union Station was designed by architects Frederich Spier and William C. Rohns, who also designed the Niles and Dowagiac stations, and completed in 1903 for the Grand…
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Amtrak moved into the new Capital Area Multimodal Gateway in January 2016. The station, which replaced a small building directly to the east, brings together Amtrak trains, intercity and local…
The current intermodal Flint station was first occupied in 1989, and sits within a Flint Mass Transportation Authority (MTA) campus. This single-story brick, glass and metal station was built on…
On October 27, 2014, city officials were joined by U.S. Senator Carl Levin and representatives from Amtrak, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and The Rapid, as well as residents,…
Passengers at Holland board and detrain from Amtrak Pere Marquette trains at the former Pere Marquette Railroad (PM) station built in 1926. Located slightly northeast of downtown, the station was…
The Jackson station, one of the oldest continually operating rail stations in the United States, opened to passengers on September 1, 1873. The Michigan Central Railroad (MCRR) had turned to…
The Amtrak station in Kalamazoo was designed by Cyrus Eidlitz for the Michigan Central Railroad and completed in 1887, a replacement for an 1873 structure. This red brick and sandstone…
The Lapeer depot was built in 1906 for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad (GTW, succeeded by Canadian National). The wood-framed clapboard-sided structure was built to one of the railroad’s standard…
On October 26, 2009, the New Buffalo station relocated to its present site about 0.6 miles north of the former Amtrak stop. The station provides an open-air shelter with roof…
The Niles station was built for the Michigan Central Railroad in 1892, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and on the Michigan State Register…
Amtrak established the Great American Stations Project in 2006 to educate communities on the benefits of redeveloping train stations, offer tools to community leaders to preserve their stations, and provide the appropriate Amtrak resources.
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