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Augusta Coal Tower
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- Oil
- 2005
- $75
- An eastbound Conrail freight, symbol ELDW, rumbles under the old coal tower in Augusta, Michigan, in the late evening of a summer night in 1996. The train had left Elkhart, Indiana earlier that day, and was on its way east to drop off cars for Battle Creek and Jackson on its way to Detroit. The coal tower was built by the Michigan Central railroad in 1923 to service its steam locomotives operating on the main line between Chicago and Detroit. Out of service for decades, the coal tower still hosts trains running underneath by Norfolk Southern and Amtrak.
