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Car Ferry - Pere Marquette 22 - (1924-1972)
Railroad: Pere Marquette railroad
Built/Acquired: 1924. Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, WI
Crossing: Lake Michigan
End of Service: 1973
Disposition: Cut down to barge. Later sank. See notes.
Length: 360 feet. Width: 56 feet. 28 freight cars on 4 tracks. 40 staterooms.
Type: Steel.
Ref: [COFTD][LMCF] + others
Additional passenger accomodations added in 1937. In 1972, cut down to a barge. Sank in November 1980 in Honduras. [LMCF]
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