History of Great Lakes Car Ferries
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History of Great Lakes Car Ferries
A Brief History of the Great Lakes Railroad Car Ferries Great Lakes Car Ferry Fleets Detroit & St. Clair Rivers Canadian National Railways Buffalo & Lake Huron Ry Great Western Ry Grand Trunk Ry Michigan Central RR - NYC Wabash Ry - N&W - NS Pere Marquette RR - C&O - Chessie System Canadian Pacific Ry Straits of Mackinac The Mackinac Transportation Company (GR&I/PRR + MC/NYC + DSS&A/Soo) Lake Michigan The Ann Arbor RR - Michigan Interstate Pere Marquette RR - C&O - Chessie System - Wisconsin & Michigan Manistique Marquette and Northern RR. The Lake Michigan Carferry Transportation Co. Lake Erie United States & Ontario Steam Navigation Co. Marquette & Bessemer Dock & Navigation Co. Pennsylvania-Ontario Transportation Co. Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo Navigation Co. The Michigan & Ohio Car Ferry Co. Lake Ontario The Ontario Car Ferry Co. Ltd. Lake Superior Incan Superior Chicago River Erie RR Basic information on all pages is from: Hilton; The Great Lakes Car Ferries. Lake Michigan Car Ferry Routes Railroad From To Railway Started Ended Ann Arbor Elberta-Frankfort Manistique Manistique & Lake Superior 1895 1968 Ann Arbor Elberta-Frankfort Escanaba+Gladstone Soo Line 1895 1902 Ann Arbor Elberta-Frankfort Kewauanee Green Bay & Western (KGB&W) 1892 1982 Ann Arbor Elberta-Frankfort Manitowoc Soo Line (WC) + C&NW 1896 1982 Ann Arbor Elberta-Frankfort Menominee C&NW + MILW + W&M 1894 1970 Pere Marquette-C&O Ludington Kewaunee Green Bay & Western (KGB&W) 1903 1990 Pere Marquette-C&O Ludington Manitowoc Soo Line (W) + C&NW 1897 1982 Pere Marquette-C&O Ludington Milwaukee C&NW + MILW 1900 1980 Grand Trunk Western Grand Haven Milwaukee MIlW + C&NW 1905 1933 Grand Trunk Western Muskegon Milwaukee C&NW + MILW 1933 1975 Lake Michigan Carferry South Chicago CRI&P Peshtigo Harbor Wisconsin & Michigan + CNW + MiILW DGR&W-PM Milwaukee MILW + C&NW 1897 1900 Pennsylvania (MM&N) Northport Manistique Manistique Marquette & Northern RR 1903 1906 1904 1908 MM&N-PM Ludington Manistique Manistique Marquette & Northern RR 1904 1906 Erie RR Chicago River S Branch to Chicago River N Branch Erie RR freight station 1913 1936 1888 1984 Muskegon GR&I + MC Mackinac City PRR + NYC/MN/ D&M Abbreviations: C&NW C&O D&M DGR&W MILW MM&N MTC PM W&M WC = = = = = = = = = = St Ignace DSS&A / Soo Chicago & North Western RR Chesapeake & Ohio RR Detroit & Mackinaw RR Detroit Grand Rapids & Western, a Pere Marquette predecessor. Milwaukee RR Manistique, Marquette & Northern RR Mackinac Transportation Co. Pere Marquette, a Chesapeake & Ohio RR predecessor. Wisconsin & Michigan RR Wisconsin Central a Soo Line predecessor Detroit & St. Clair River Car Ferry Routes Great Western Ry - Canadian National in Windsor to Grand Trunk Western in Detroit. Canadian National / Grand Trunk (of Canada) in Sarnia, ON to Grand Trunk Western in Port Huron. Michigan Central in Detroit to Michigan Central in Windsor, ON. Pere Marquette - C&O in Detroit to PM-C&O + Canadian Pacific in Windsor. Wabash-N&W-NS in Detroit to Wabash + Canadian National in Windsor. (The variants carferry and car ferry are both used depending on the company) (Mackinaw refers to the City; Mackinac refers to the Straits, the Island, the Bridge and to the Detroit & Mackinac Railroad. Lake Erie Car Ferry Routes Railroad From RR To RR Michigan & Ohio Car Ferry Co Sandusky B&O Detroit & Windsor GT Ry 1897 1898 Marquette & Bessemer Dock & Navigation! Conneaut! B&LE! Erieau! ! ! PM! 1903! 1927 Marquette & Bessemer Dock & Navigation! Conneaut! B&LE! Port Stanley! ! L&PS! 1903! 1932 Pennsylvania-Ontario Transportation Co.! Ashtabula! PRR! Port Burwell! ! CP! 1906! 1958 Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Navigation Co.! Ashtabula! NYC! Port Maitland! ! TH&B ! 1916! 1932 Buffalo & Lake Huron! Buffalo! ! Erie! Fort Erie! ! B&LH! 1858! 1873 Conneaut! B&LE! Port Dover! ! GT Ry ! 1895! 1903 ! ! ! United States & Ontario Steam Navigation ! Abbreviations B&O! B&LE! PRR ! NYC ! GT Ry! PM! L&PS! CP! TH&B! B&LH! =! =! =! =! =! =! =! =! =! =! Baltimore & Ohio RR Bessemer & Lake Erie RR Pennsylvania RR New York Central RR Grand Trunk Ry (Canada) Pere Marquette RR London & Port Stanley RR (Canada - Electric) Canadian Pacific RR Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo RR Buffalo & Lake Huron RR (Canada) C&O’s Port Huron-Sarnia carferry “Pere Marquette 10”. 1965 photo by Mark Cowles taken from the Str. LaSalle Started Ended Sources and References Ann Arbor Railroad Technical! and Historical Association! ! ! The Double A: The Journal of the Ann Arbor Railroad Technical Association. Various issues. Bergtorf, Francis D.! ! ! Chief Wawatam: The Story of a Hand Bomber. Cheboygan, MI 1976 Boles, Frank! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! FerryBoat Railroad: Michigan’s Ann Arbor Railroad published in the Chronicle. The Hisorical Society of Michigan, Summer 2005. Cowles, W. C.! ! ! ! Photo and post card collections. Elve, Steven D.!! ! ! Rails Across the Water: The Story of Ann Arbor Car Ferries. Lowell, MI 1984. Fredecickson, Arthur C. &! Lucy F.! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Early History of the Ann Arbor Carferries. Frankfort, MI 1949 Later History of the Ann Arbor Carferries, Boats 6 & 7. Frankfort, MI 1951 Revised Edition Pictorial History of the C&O Train and Auto Ferries and Pere Marquette Line Steamers. Grand Rapids, 1965 Hilton, George W.! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! The Great Lakes Car Ferries. Berkley, Howell-North Books 1962. Out of Print, but a revised edition has been published. Hornstein, Hugh A.! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! The Fate of Annies Ferry and Other Lake Michigan Railroad Car Ferries. ©2000. Published in the Double A, vol. 21, no. 1, Summer 2005. Krieger, Michael!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Where Rails Meet The Sea. America’s Connections Between Ships Trains. New York 1998 Laben Productions! ! ! Video: Badger; Flagship for a Dream. 1997 Color, 30 min. LeLievre, Roger!! ! ! Know Your Ships. Marine Publishing Co. Inc. Annual Publication Mackinaw Area Historical! Society!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Crossing the Straits for the Past 100 Years. With 32 Descriptive Ready-to-Mail Postcards Selected from the Archives of the Mackinaw Area Historical Society. Marine Historical Society! of Detroit! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Ahoy & Farewell I.! Detroit 2001. Ahoy & Farewell II! Detroit 1996 Detroit Marine Historian. Monthly Journal, ed. Jim Jackson and Mike Nicholls. Detroit. Various issues. Mark Howell Productions! ! ! ! ! ! ! Video: Before the Bridge: The Story of the Mackinac Straits Ferries 1998. Color and B&W. 55 min. Michigan Transit Museum! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Video: Tracks Down Michigan, Program #6 - Floating Railways Part One - Detroit & St. Clair Rivers WHH TV Productions 1999 Color and B&W, about 50 min. Rantanes, Eli and Sebastian-! ! Railroading Along the Waterfront. Milwaukee: William K. Walthers 1997. Techmoeller, John editor! ! Transfer. Newsletter for the Rail-Marine Information Group. Various issues. Zimmerman, Karl! ! Lake Michigan Railroad Car Ferries. Andover, NJ 1993. !