05/14/06 - Michigan Central Train Station - The MCS
Whenever you cross the Ambassador bridge there is an enormous structure than you can see straight through...that is the MCS; a train station the operated from 1913 to 1987. It has stood abandoned ever since and it is quite the building to stand vacant. Instead of giving a boring history, here's some quick facts that I found interesting...
-Once sold for $80 000
-Owned by the same people (Control Terminals Inc.) that own the Ambassador Bridge
-Once stood wide open with no security fence (pre 9/11)
-Was built to compete with New York's Grand Central Station
-Film location for "The Island"
The Michigan Central Station
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Dziamaarsky standing with his t3
flashlight in the concourse area where people exiting trains would come upon...
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Steve Davis' phone number
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Some very large pillars dwarfed our
walk from the concourse to the main waiting room...
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Along the sides of the main waiting
room was a small ticket booth that you could climb on and get a elevated look
around the waiting room...
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Dziamaarsky enjoying the view...
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The main waiting room's 56 feet
mocking Dziamaarsky's 5.75 feet...
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Army had been
there 5 years before us...4th floor...
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The large waiting
room goes up to the top 4 floors, then after that there was small roofs you
could climb out on...but after seeing this, we opted not to...
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From the 4th floor we realized that
14 more floors was daunting...
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Also on the fourth floor was a spot
where you could climb out onto a ledge and perch over the main waiting area...
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Dziamaarsky in a space not meant
for claustrophobics...
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On the fifth floor; a shot of Tiger
Stadium off in the distance...
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Dziamaarsky
safe...
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On every floor
and almost every space was spray-paint about Catfish...once I looked at another
site I realized it was a homeless man that occupied the building for years in
the 90's...
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9th (?) floor had
many rooms for space and the marble tile falling off the sides in almost every
space that it could.
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Throughout the
middle floors, there were safes everywhere...here's one with a giant hole
someone created to find out what was inside...
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We presumed they
kicked the door off afterwards...
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Found this interesting as well...there was wood paneling that had fell off the wall; only the glue remained and you could see that some worker had drew a glue woman to install the paneling.
Just something
interesting to notice and wonder where that guy is now, likely 40 years later...
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I see Brad
Laporte was here before me...
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He must have came
with Donnie...
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Looking into
another safe...this one was an entire room and I just opened the door and used a
flash...
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The 13(?)th floor
had roof tiles similar to those ones in grade school with all the holes...almost
all had fallen to the ground...
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Some roof
caving...
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From the 15th
floor, a decent picture of the Ambassador Bridge.
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Someone had some
fun with all this drywall...
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Not really good spray paint, but a crazy spot as he/she likely walked across a 2 inch piece of metal to spray paint 15 floors from the ground.
Props to Redford,
Michigan from Belle River, Ontario
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Also on the 15th
floor was a cement balcony that gave us spectacular views...
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We saw that
Canada was straight ahead...
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That 15th floor balcony gave a good view to spot these people posing it up out front.
While we were
there, I had to see at least 5 cars get out and take pictures / stare at the
building...
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On the 15th floor
balcony looking at the detail on the corner of the building...
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Donnie &
Dziamaarsky enjoying said view...
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A view of not
just the corner but the entire 15th floor balcony / facade...
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There was so many
floors built in the train station that the top 2 were never even finished...
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Staircase to the
next floor...
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Another view of
the front of the building...this time on the 16th floor...
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Cutting this
elevator cable had to be entertaining...
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Once we reached
the roof, the height didn't really bother Dziamaarsky, but Donnie wasn't
pleased...
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Looking down at
the Detroit Public School Warehouse...
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An overview of
the roof...
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2 story
smokestack with the Ambassador Bridge in the background...
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A shot showcasing
a view of Detroit...
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Dzimaarsky
looking away from Detroit...
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Dziamaarsky
having some rooftop fun...don't worry, there's a roof below the one he's hanging
off...
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All in all, MCS has to be up there for one of the most impressive buildings in Detroit...I personally enjoyed the Packard better but I think Don & Dzimaarsky enjoyed this better ... especially Dziamaarsky with his t3 flashlight.
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