A late-night fire destroyed a former locomotive storage building on the south side of Petoskey Sunday.
Firefighters from the Petoskey Department of Public Safety were called to the area of Buckley Street south of Sheridan at about 11:30 p.m. when residents on Clarion Avenue reported a large fire in the area.
When public safety officers arrived on the scene they found a large pole building located at the end of a long dirt driveway that runs along the railroad tracks south from Sheridan, fully engulfed in flames.
Portions of the pole building had already collapsed by the time firefighters began putting water on the fire. Firefighters were on the scene until about 2:30 a.m. digging through the rubble to make sure all of the fire was out.
Fire officials said the building was at one time used by the railroad to house locomotives, but apparently has not been used for some time. Fire officials said little, if anything, appeared to have been stored in the building.