A coaling tower that’s been a part of Macon’s skyline for more than a century once looked down on a bustling rail yard roughly bounded by Seventh, Poplar, Fifth and Bay streets. Today, if the plans of ...
Peeking over downtown Macon is a unique, concrete structure around 90 feet tall. It has stood for more than a century, surviving the age of steam, serving as a reminder of Macon’s industrial past and ...
A century ago, the Michigan Central Railroad built a coaling tower to dump coal into steam-powered locomotives passing underneath on its tracks that run parallel to Dunes Highway in Michigan City.