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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.
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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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