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  • Ann Arbor Railroad Depot, Howell, Michigan - 1984

    This photograph is of the Ann Arbor Railway Depot Howell, Michigan, and was taken as part of documentation for the R/UDAT Study, 1984.  In view is Depot, at North Walnut Street and Wetmore Street.  Holkins Lumber is also visible in the background, as are the railroad track going west out of town.  The photograph was taken from the Michigan Avenue Bridge.

    In 1983, the Howell Area Chamber of Commerce applied for a R/UDAT (Regional/Urban Design Assistance Team) study, an American Institute of Architects program that brought a team of professionals to the city for a four-day period to study Howell's downtown, its ability to compete for regional shopping, and to make recommendations for improvements to re-vitalize the city.  The team, in 1984, during the study took photographs, interviewed people, held forums, and in the end provided an outline of strategies.

    American Institute of Architects Regional/Urban Design Assistance Team
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  • Ann Arbor Railroad Depot, Howell, Michigan, Caboose

    This photograph was labeled, "Caboose", Ann Arbor Railroad Depot, Howell, Michigan.

    The exact date and location of this photograph are unknown.
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  • Ann Arbor Railroad Depot, Howell, Michigan, Looking East

    This photograph is looking east towards the Michigan Avenue Bridge from the Ann Arbor Railroad Depot, Howell, Michigan.

    The year of the photograph is unknown.
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  • Ann Arbor Railroad Depot, Section Crew, Howell, Michigan

    This is a photograph of a Section Crew for the Ann Arbor Railroad, Howell, Michigan.

    The names of the persons and date of the photograph are unknown.
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  • Ann Arbor Railroad Freight House - March 16, 1945

    Ann Arbor Railroad Freight House - March 16, 1945 was located about 100 feet east of the 1886 depot where the parking lot is now being constructed.  The structure suffered a fire in the 1980's and was then torn down.  Several burnt freight documents from the fire printed and penned in the earlier years of the Ann Arbor Railroad operation are in the collection of the Howell Area Historical Society.
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  • Ann Arbor Railroad Wreck near Lakeland, Michigan - November 1907

    Ann Arbor Railroad Wreck near Lakeland, Michigan - November 1907

    From Howell Bicentennial History 1776-1976 this photo is captioned "In November 1907 a train went through Howell, Michigan headed south.  Another train left Ann Arbor, Michigan about the same time. It was late at night and it was a one track line. About 3:20 AM they met at Lakeland, Michigan between Howell, Michigan and Ann Arbor, Michigan. This picture shows the result"
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  • Ann Arbor Railroad Wrecked Car near Wright Elevator in Howell, Michigan

    Ann Arbor Railroad Wrecked Car near Wright Elevator This image, along with other smaller and limited injury/loss accidents and abandonments where this statement is included, are believed to have combined over the years into the myth of a "Locomotive" in the swamp adjacent to the 1886 TAA&NM depot. likely, only pieces of rolling stock such as wood frame cars that were too costly to retrieve as opposed to replace, if any, remain. Some of these pieces are said to be visible during extreme dry spells.
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  • Ann Arbor Railroad, Howell Depot, Howell, Michigan

    This image was included on the First National Bank Calendar, and is of the Ann Arbor Railroad Depot in Howell.

    In the 1992, Howell Bicentennial History book, it is captioned, "The last passenger train on the Ann Arbor Railroad stops in Howell, 1951".
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  • Ann Arbor Railroad, Howell, Michigan

    This is a photograph of the Ann Arbor Railroad engine, believed to be taken in Howell, Livingston, Michigan.

    Through a quick Google maps reference, using the center home, now McDonald's funeral home, and the extremely characteristic stone block house at the foot of Higgins, this photo was taken from the general area of the foot of Walnut Street, either on or near the Ann Arbor Railroad Depot grounds or where the parking lot now resides. The subject is Ann Arbor No. 1, ordered in 1941 and the first diesel locomotive of the Ann Arbor railroad. The nature of the locomotive paint has me thinking that this photo was taken in the 1940s or very early 1950s, and as No. 1 was almost exclusively used as the dedicated switcher for the Owosso Yard, this photo could be of either a special move, or the delivery of the locomotive itself from another interchange to the Owosso Yard as by all indications, the unit with caboose is facing north in that direction.
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  • Ann Arbor Railroad, Viaduct, Howell, Michigan

    This is a photograph of the building of the bridge piers on the Ann Arbor Railroad Viaduct which crosses East Grand River Avenue, near Lucy Road, Howell, 1938.
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