A 12-year-old Thomas Edison, working as a news butcher, was thrown off a Grand Trunk train at this station in 1859, after setting a baggage car on fire. Henry Ford moved it to Greenfield Village and had it restored in the late 1920s, and it received Edison, Ford, and President Hoover when the village was formally opened in 1929. Today it's used as a regular stop on the perimeter railroad that circles the museum grounds.
Oh the stories these special buildings could tell. Originally the brains of the rails they monitored, working to insure effecient rail service for our nation! A tribute!
