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By midday Monday, September 15, when Trains.com visited the site east of the Michigan City drawbridge, the top of the structure had already succumbed. A crane begins clawing its way at the substantial mass of concrete and rebar. Tracks below the structure have been relocated to the foreground. At left, a crew member from Renascent, Inc., directs a stream of water on the carnage. A supervisor on site says the debris will be collected and recycled into building materials. Bob Johnston
Demolition halts Amtrak service on the Wolverine and Blue Water routes through Friday
MICHIGAN CITY, INDIANA — Demolition experts wasted little time in dismantling the top of the former Michigan Central coaling tower that straddles Amtrak’s Michigan line, which normally hosts Wolverine and Blue Water trains. The process of crushing this fortress and another one on Michigan-owned track west of Augusta, Mich., between Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, has caused a weeklong cancellation of passenger service on the route [“Amtrak to halt…” Sept. 5 News]
