Car Ferry - City of Milwaukee - (1902-1929)


Railroad: Pere Marquette railroad

Built/Acquired: 1902, as Manistique, Marquette & Northern 1.

Crossing: Lake Michigan

End of Service: 1929 (October 22)

Disposition: Sunk in Lake Michigan near Milwaukee with 52 dead.

Length: 339 feet/ Held 30 cars.

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Bibliography

The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:

  • [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
  • [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
  • [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
  • [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
  • [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI

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