Railroad: Pere Marquette Transportation Company, The

This was a transportation company which operated railroad car ferries on Lake Michigan for ten years. It was merged into the Pere Marquette railroad.

Created → Pere Marquette Transportation Co. → Absorbed by the Pere Marquette railroad

Organized: 1896

Operated for 10 years.

Dissolved: 1906

Reference: [MRRC]

This was a car ferry operation.

The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:

[AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
[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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