Wabash Power Saginaw
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Wabash Power Saginaw
Looking at Wabash Power in Saginaw on Google Maps, I can see that the track used to serve this customer continued on for at least a couple miles it looks like. What was this spur used for and what (if any) customers did it serve?
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Re: Wabash Power Saginaw
I checked the 1950 Sanborn maps for Saginaw. The spur extended (at that time) to Genesee street and served a number of smaller businesses mostly wholesale houses, a furniture dealer, etc. )
https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanbor ... st=gallery
https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanbor ... st=gallery
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Re: Wabash Power Saginaw
Well let me see what is now Wabash Power Equipment was built as Wickes Engineering and was a huge plant back up into the 1980s then over half the plant was tore down and it was also known as Combustion Engineering up until January of 1976 when they moved everything down south i can remember in the 1970s rail cars always spotted in there the spur extended down to C Riffel and Sons Beer Distributers
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Re: Wabash Power Saginaw
I remember them going into that track one night when I was working 3rd trick at Washington Ave tower in 1976 or 1977. Can't remember if they put a load in or pulled an empty. I think it was the latter. The switch to that track came off one of the yard leads right in front of the Potter St depot.