Car Ferry - City of Flint - (1929-1968)

Railroad: Pere Marquette railroad, then Norfolk & Western

Built/Acquired: 1929. Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, WI

Crossing: Lake Michigan, then Detroit River

End of Service: 1968. See notes below.

Disposition: Sold to N&W in 1970. Cut down to barge Roanoke to haul rail cars between Detroit and Windsor until 1994. Scrapped in 2020 at Port Maitland, ON.

Length: 369 feet. Held 32 cars.

Type:

Ref: [LMCF] + others

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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