DETROIT: Duality of the "D"
Michigan Central Depot -- © 2008 Joe Braun Photography

Like a modern-day Colosseum, Michigan Central Station is Detroit's most famous ruin.

Michigan Central Depot -- © 2008 Joe Braun Photography

The station dressed up in Halloween gloom.

Michigan Central Depot -- © 2008 Joe Braun Photography

The General Waiting Room -- a Roman bathhouse-inspired cathedral
that epitomizes the grandeur and decay of the station.

Michigan Central Depot -- © 2008 Joe Braun Photography

Pillars guard the bombed-out remains of the ticket windows.

Michigan Central Depot -- © 2008 Joe Braun Photography

A typical hallway in the lower tower levels -- the marble walls have been destroyed
and plaster and cheap light fixtures have fallen from the ceiling.

Michigan Central Depot -- © 2008 Joe Braun Photography

Art door with beautiful colors from multiple layers of old flaking paint.

Michigan Central Depot -- © 2008 Joe Braun Photography

The loneliest toilet paper roll on the planet. (Can that cardboard really be two decades old?)

Michigan Central Depot -- © 2009 Joe Braun Photography

The city skyline during a beautiful sunrise.

Michigan Central Depot -- © 2009 Joe Braun Photography

Rusted out support beams under what was the train shed.

Michigan Central Depot -- © 2009 Joe Braun Photography

MCS and the Roosevelt Warehouse on a cold winter day. To leave this set and take a complete
tour of the building, see the set of Michigan Central Station photos.

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