I pass this little depot, the Mt. Clemens Depot, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, every day on my way to work and thought I'd share some photos of it.

Interesting history associated with Thomas Edison identified on one of the information plaques.

Sorry for photo quality. Taken with cell phone. The sign hanging on the front of the building says Michigan Transit Museum.

Train rides are available on some of the weekends.

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It's great to see structures like this being saved, as the railroads tore them down as soon as they became either redundant or no longer needed.

Regard! Mark

I agree, Mark. They're presently in the midst of putting a new roof on the building. Interesting detail at the top of the chimneys. Not sure what they represent. Almost look like covered railroad bridges?

They just look like cool smoke deflectors to me, Keith.

Rural Retreat, VA rebuilt their old N&W depot recently and is using it as community center. It's gorgeous, and figured prominently in one of O. Winston Link's N&W steam railroad recordings.

Regard! Mark

Thomas Edison was a close friend of Henry Ford. He had many 'Edison Generator Powered' Village Industries making specialty products/processes for Ford. I have been to many of these in towns like Northville, Nankin Mills, Phoenix Mill,Flat Rock, Macon Soybean mill, Plymouth, Waterford, Ypsilanti, Newburgh,Hayden Mills,Dundee, Milan, Milford, Saline, Brooklyn, Sharon Mills, Tecumseh (where I lived on a farm),Manchester, Willow Run, Clarkston,and Cherry Hill. All these plants were equipped with Edison Power generators and connected to water wheels in adjacent streams/rivers. The Ford empire also included the Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton RR. Even today there is a huge collection of pocket watches in the Henry Ford Museum at Greenfield Village in Dearborn. History is relevant to time - thus watches !!!