Waiting Room and the "Wye"

At the back of what had been the parade grounds of the Michigan Military Academy, the Detroit United Railway built a Y-shaped track called a wye so trolley cars could turn around and travel in the opposite direction along the trolley line that paralleled the Grand Trunk Railroad track. Near it was a Detroit United Railway waiting room for patrons, and a concrete basin used by maintenance workers to climb under the trolleys for inspections and repairs still survives as a faint trace in the undergrowth. In 1909, trolleys moved the contents of the seminary from Detroit to Orchard Lake at night to avoid disrupting the Detroit United Railway system.

Orchard Lake Village, Michigan · United States