Car Ferry - Pere Marquette 16 - (1895-1907)


Railroad: Pere Marquette railroad

Built/Acquired: 1895. Worked for Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western (GTW) from 1898-1899. Then PM after merger from 1900-1914.

Crossing: Lake Michigan

End of Service: 1914. See notes below.

Disposition: Sold and turned into a barge.

Length: 282 feet. Held 26 cars.

Type:

Ref: [LMCF] + others


Built in 1895 for United States & OIntario Steam Navigation Co. to carry coal cars between Conneaut, OH and Port Dover, ON. Sold to Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western for Muskegon-Milwaukee operations until 1901. After Pere Marquette merger, transferred to Ludington and renamed Pere Marquette 16. Taken out of service in 1907 and sold to Hammermill Paper Company in 1917 and cut down to a barge for hauling pulpwood. Struck by a steamer near Two Harbors, MN in 1922.

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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