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Car Ferry - SS City of Milwaukee - (1931-1981)
Railroad: Grand Trunk Western
Built: 1931, by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, WI
Crossing: Lake Michigan
End of Service: 1978 (GTW). Then sold to State of Michigan deployed on Ann Arbor rail car ferry service until 1981.
Disposition: Became a bed and breakfast and event venue in Manistee Lake, Manistee, MI
Type:
Carried 28-30 rail cars. Powered by four Scotch marine boilers.
Sold to City of Frankfort in 1983 foir use as a marine museum. Presently docked in Manistee, MI and open to the public.
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