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Car Ferry - Pere Marquette 18 (2nd) - (1911-1954)
Railroad: Pere Marquette railroad
Built: 1911
Crossing: Lake Michigan
End of Service: 1952
Disposition: Retired and later scrapped.
Length: 338 feet Width: 56 feet.
Capacity: 26 freight cars on four tracks. 15 staterooms.
Type: Steel
Ref: [LMCF][COFTD] + others
Built to replace Pere Marquette 18 (1st) after it sank. Retired in 1954 and scrapped in Hamilton, ON in 1957.
Photo info: Top, PM Car Ferry #18 near Milwaukee, WI. [MHSD]; 2nd photo PM 18 under tow. 2nd image, PM #18 in an earlier viewe. [Wisconsin Historical Society]
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