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Car Ferry - Pere Marquette No. 18 (1st) - (1902-1910)
Railroad: Pere Marquette railroad
Built/Acquired: 1902 from the American Shipbuilding Co., in Cleveland, OH
Crossing: Lake Michigan
End of Service: 1910.
Disposition: Sank near Sheboygan, WI in Lake Michigan with 29 lives lost.
Length: 338 feet. Held 30 cars.
Type:
Ref: [KNCF] + others
Remains were found in 2020 in 500 feet of water about 25 miles east of Sheboygan, WI.
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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