Car Ferry - Wabash - (1927-1963)


Railroad: Wabash railroad

Built/Acquired: 1927. Toledo Shipbuilding Co., Toledo, OH

Crossing: Detroit River

End of Service: 1963. 

Disposition:Scraped around 1967.

Length: 366 feet. Held 32 cars.

Type:

Ref: [LMCF] + others


Renamed City of Green Bay after Ann Arbor railroad was taken over by DT&I. [LMCF]  UIed in Lake Michigan service from 1963-1972. 

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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