Greenfield Village (Amtrak station)
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Greenfield Village is a conditional Amtrak
station in Dearborn, Michigan
, served by the Wolverine. It is a stop for the Henry Ford Museum and is only used for reserved tour groups of 20 or more people, thus making it one of Amtrak's least-busy stations.
Greenfield Village has a single platform, a pedestrian crosswalk, and no station house. However, the pedestrian crosswalk leads to the historic 1858-built Smith's Creek Depot, which serves the parallel Weiser Railroad on the museum grounds. Smith's Creek Depot was built in Smiths Creek, Michigan in 1858 by the Chicago, Detroit and Canada Grand Trunk Junction Rail Road Company, along a line that wasn't finished until 1859, and was acquired by the Grand Trunk and Western Railroad
in 1928. The station house was moved to Dearborn a year later.
Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union...
station in Dearborn, Michigan
Dearborn, Michigan
-Economy:Ford Motor Company has its world headquarters in Dearborn. In addition its Dearborn campus contains many research, testing, finance and some production facilities. Ford Land controls the numerous properties owned by Ford including sales and leasing to unrelated businesses such as the...
, served by the Wolverine. It is a stop for the Henry Ford Museum and is only used for reserved tour groups of 20 or more people, thus making it one of Amtrak's least-busy stations.
Greenfield Village has a single platform, a pedestrian crosswalk, and no station house. However, the pedestrian crosswalk leads to the historic 1858-built Smith's Creek Depot, which serves the parallel Weiser Railroad on the museum grounds. Smith's Creek Depot was built in Smiths Creek, Michigan in 1858 by the Chicago, Detroit and Canada Grand Trunk Junction Rail Road Company, along a line that wasn't finished until 1859, and was acquired by the Grand Trunk and Western Railroad
Grand Trunk Western Railroad
The Grand Trunk Western Railroad is an important subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway , constituting the majority of CN's Chicago Division ....
in 1928. The station house was moved to Dearborn a year later.