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Car Ferry - Pere Marquette 19 - (1903-1940)
Railroad: Pere Marquette railroad
Built/Acquired: 1903. American Shipbuilding Co., Loran, OH
Crossing: Lake Michigan
End of Railroad Service: 1940
Disposition: Became barge.
Length: 338 feet. Held 30 cars.
Type:
Ref: [LMCF] + others
No passenger accomodations. Sold and reduced to barge in 1940 in Sturgeon Bay. Then hauled pulpwood. Later hauled containers between Italy and Greece.
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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