  Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 919 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
Does anyone have any photos of the American Car & Foundry Company Plant located at Russell and Ferry Sts. in Detroit? Also, does anyone know if any of the old buildings from the American Car & Foundry Company still exist on that same location and if so any current photos of them? I searched the WSU Virtual Motor City but all they had was one photo of the interior during WWI Munitions Production.  Livedog2 | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1414 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 63.157.64.128 |
Here's a site with some info on it: http://www.ironhorse129.com/ro llingstock/builders/amercar&fo undry1.htm One of its predecessors was on the site where Dodge Main was built. Good hunting. | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 921 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
Thanks, Hornwrecker! That'll keep me busy for awhile, anyway. Livedog2 | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1415 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 63.157.64.128 |
Do a search of the archives, there was at least one thread on the topic, and/or one about a lecture on the subject, or search for posts by bob_cosgrove. This subject deserves the full treatment, but other topics keep popping up, and the OCF keeps chugging along... Forgot to add that the last ACF plants were under where the incinerator now stands, and IIRC under where the Clark St Cadillac factory was. (Message edited by hornwrecker on August 14, 2006) | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 2718 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.15.105 |
https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/50492/55236.html | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 923 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
I saw some Sanborn maps of the area that AC&F occupied on the Russell and Ferry site and it was massive. Unfortunately, I don't have access to Sanborn maps to post on this thread. This may have been one of the largest employers in the Detroit Area before the Auto Industry took hold. I will do some research on this important and huge company in the history of Detroit industrialization and manufacturing.  Livedog2 | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1416 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 63.157.64.128 |
Mikem, looking at the aerial you posted for the track arrangement in the linked thread, I remember seeing something similar for a Wabash RR automobile shipping facility in the Sanborns on W Jefferson. The D2T2 thread is still open in the HOF section, so if I run across it again, I'll put it there. I'll see about getting the whole thing put into a Detroit Railroad Archive. | ||
Livedog2 Member Username: Livedog2 Post Number: 935 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 24.223.133.177 |
 All three of these companies, advertising separately in the 1879 Car Builders Dictionary, would become part of the Michigan-Peninsular Car Company in 1892 which in turn was taken into the American Car & Foundry Company. Livedog2 |
