World Trip 2002 - Detroit
Michigan
Central Station was almost always bound to be an abandoned building. It just
isn't central. It is a couple of kilometers outside of town. It certainly
isn't in downtown Detroit. It is in a fairly low density suburb. You would
have to catch a train or bus out to it. When built there was an idea that
Detroit was going to expand out towards the station but that never happened.
So it stands like a grand monument to some one's planning blunder. The highest
building for a couple of kilometers in any direction.
It makes for one very impressive sight though. Even with many of it's windows gone the building still has that presence. It seems to be saying. 'look at me, I was once important. I was once the life blood of this city.' Now, it still can impress.
Though I never got to enter the building, I have seen pictures of the inside, so I was happy to just see it first hand and snap a few photos. In Detroit our first stop was downtown, then the impressive Michigan Central Station and finally the Fisher Body works.
Detroit skyline, with several abandoned buildings visible
Michigan central station. Big isn't it. I have heard it is 24 stories high but I only counted 18.
Row upon row of windows, some intact, some smashed.
The ornate Roman columns of the entrance to the main booking hall.
The place is tall, a skyscraper in it's own right.
From the side
Michigan central station
From the back of the station. I have no idea of how platforms would have fitted in behind here.
My host in Gary
and Detroit was David of Forgotten
Detroit. His web site is well worth looking at.
You can read more about the Michigan Central Station here
and here.
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