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Sunday, March 18, 1973
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all kinds of people. There were
train fanatics that would just sit
and watch the trains come in."
There was One--Eyed Charlie, a
local hobo who made the depot
his favorite haunt and who made
a general nuisance of himself,
Usually drunk, Charlie would loll
around the station asking for hand-
outs and accosting women.
And although he was regularly
evicted by the police, he would in-
variably return. Finally Aldrich
called the police station and de-
manded to know why Charlie had
not been locked up.
"One-Eyed Charlie can slip into
places we can't get into," she was
told. "Charlie gets every crime
lead we need in town."
So Charlie stayed and became a
fixture in the otherwise ever-
changing scene of commuters, stu-
dents and miscellaneous travelers.
Salesmen made the train their
home; students used it as a means
of escape: poor Southern whites
'-igrated in droves to work in
the bomber plant.
The Michigan Central Railroad-
a locally originated line-had built
the depot in 1887 for the extrava-
gant sum of $30,000. The depot
was designed as a 'showplace for
the railroad and its was regally
appointed with Turkish rugs, rock-
ing chairs, and what a then con-
temporary newspaper called "fancy
settees for the ladies."
The depot was eventually en-
larged, the appointments became
functional and the . settees disap-
peared as the railroad became
busier and more passengers passed
through the depot.
By the mid 1930's the Michigan
Central was reachinghpeak pro-
ductivity. The trains had names :
fadesd
the Wolverine, the Mercury, the
Twilight, the Detroiter-and there
were 42 every day.
"We really had a railroad. We
gave service, we had enough help
to give service and everything was
clea--there was never even a
weed in the yard."
Marion Starry talks, acts-is-
the definitive Railroad Man." Tall,
lean and erect despite his 73 years,
there is nothing grandfatherly
abo-t him.
His life has been spent on the
railroad-31 years as a baggage-
man at the depot after arriving
here in 1935 from another job at
but memories
agement that entered became more"
demanding as men were laid off
and the railroals deteriorated. Dur-
ing his final years at the depot,
Starry worked as janitor in addi-
tion to his baggageman job. "They
had me cleaning washrooms," he
says with disgust. "The longer you
worked there, the meaner they
got."
He speaks bitterly of the "big
men in New York" who sat at
their desk and gave orders while
the railroads became inefficient
and disorganized. "There were too
many chiefs and not enough In-
dians."
It is almost midnight and the
ticket seller is alone in the depot
when No. 9 from New York comes
to a grinding halt. Three men
wearing dark coats, their hats
pulled low over their eyes, get off
and demand to see the books. They
say they are auditors.
But the ticket seller thinks they
are gansters and calls the station
agent before showing them any-
thing.
The agent opens the books and
during the audit an illegal petty
cash box is discovered, an in-
investigation is over, the egent
According to Aldrich, the depot was the perfect set-
tin for melodrama, but she and o th e r s who worked
there view the station's finat years as tragedy-the re-
suit oiily of neglect and mismanagement,.
linger
in the early 1960's and the railroad
was bogged down in an even larger
bureacuracy, "there just wan't'
anyone around to take care of a
passenger's needs and wants,"
says Starry.
Maybe. Or maybe passenger
trains are simply obsolescent in
an age when it is cheaper and
considerably faster to take a
plane. Even Starry admits he
"never traveled much 03 the
train."
"You'll laugh," Viola Aldrich
says, "but I bought stock in Penn
Central even though it is a bank-
rupt company. The railroad must'
prevail."
But today the depot is a restau-
rant, purchased in 1968 for soine
ten times what the Michigan Cen-
tral paid to build it almost a h1 n-
dred years ago. The building 1,0s
not changed atlhough thera are
new 'fancy settees'; and the res-
taurant's name is rooted in rail-
road history.
Gandy dancers were workers
who followed a machine dumping
gravel along the tracks. Their job
was to spread it evenly: Supposed-
ly there was one gang, headed by~
a man named Gandy, that worked
particularly fast-so fast that they
seemed to dance down the track-.
The depot has been historicaly
preserved-but it is a restaurant.
Of course, there is still a depot.
Located a few yards from the
Gandy Dancer is a small building
labelled AMTRAK. It was once
used for storage by another rail-
road. Four passenger trains ruin-
ble to a halt here each day, un-'
heralded by marching bands and
without a single cheerleader boui-.
ing on the roof.
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another railroad in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa (he calls it 'Ioway').
Now he sits in his living room
with a moose wading in the tapes-
try behind him and remembers
a {different depot from the one
Aldrich recalls.
His job was baggage, getting
baggage on the trains, and even
the people he remembers are bag-
gage-corpses in caskets, patients
on stretchers.
Starry doesn't romanticize. The
railroad he came to in the 1930's
was not the same one he left
eight years ago "when he didn't
care if he worked any more."
The local Michigan Central was
acquired bythe larger New York
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"When the New York Central' vestigation is called. Before the
took over the line (from the Michi-
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started going downhill. And when
the Pennsylvania came in, it went
to nothing."
Starry began working at the de-
pot hauling mail to the city post
office, but he "had a lot of leisure
time," the baggage men were busy
and he helped out rather than
watch. And when the rush was
over, the .station agent handed
him a check.
Starting pay was $3.97 for an
eight hour day of hand labelling
baggage and loading suitcases and
trunks and 200 sacks of mail on
the train. There was no6overtime
pay and the job was 365 days a
year long.
Remembering his years on the
railroad now, he speaks warmly
only of the early years when stu-
dents would :crowd the platforms
at the beginning or end of each
term-"when everyone dressed
with the boys wearing suits and
the girls wearing dresses."
Celebrities would invariably ar-
rive by train then and word would
go down the line that "so and so
is on No. 12. And we had big
doings for Wendell Wilkie-even
built a big platform . .."
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interest Starry. He is a railroad
man and he did his job and that
is what he talks about. One-ton
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the men who were killed. The
crash in 1940 when 20 cars were
derailed and the locomotive turned
over on its side and lay there like
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"I don't know what Marion
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says. "He was only a baggage
man."
Because she remembers the de-
pot differently-in anecdotes that
are sometimes like a late night
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attracted passengers.
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