When it gets to the river it banks around to the south and runs along the street between River street and the Saginaw river on the east bank.
At the Cass Avenue river bridge approach the bridge is long gone and there is a DNR public boat launch and trailer parking lot. The swing bridge was removed 50yrs ago.
There is a switch right there and the tracks continue zouth now as two tracks but there is a specialty plastics place that its hayday was in the 1970s and now maybe has a couple of employees and not much activity with one silo that must get supplied by truck if even any.
The tracks disappear into heavy brush just past McGraw street and then become buried in growth and building foundations that must date back to the early 1900s or late 1800s. This would deadend into the extreme north end of the airport.
Does anybody have any sanborn map from maybe the 1920s or earlier that maybe reflects what the Pere Marquette RR might have serviced way deep in there back in the day?
South of the airport there is the grade thats only renaining overgrown running on an angle sw/ne x west at the river for the old interurban that ended in the beginning of the 1900s.
Ive walked much of this and could get pictures if somebody else could make themselves accessable to post them.
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