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The 'Pere Marquette Railway' was a railroad that operated in the Great Lakes region of the United States. The railroad had trackage in the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and the Canadian province of Ontario. Its primary connections included Buffalo, New York, Toledo, Ohio and Chicago, Illinois.
It was incorporated on January 1, 1900 as the 'Pere Marquette Railroad Company' from the merger of several Michigan railroads, the most prominent being:
★ Flint and Pere Marquette Railway
★ Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad
★ Chicago and West Michigan Railroad
The company was reincorporated on March 12, 1917 as the 'Pere Marquette Railway'.
In the 1920s the Pere Marquette came under the control of Cleveland financiers Oris and Mantis Van Sweringen who also controlled the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, Erie Railroad and Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and planned to merge the four railroads. The ICC did not approve the merger and the Van Sweringen brothers sold their interest in the Pere Marquette to the C&O, with which it formally merged on June 6, 1947. The C&O has since become part of CSX.
In 1984, Amtrak named their passenger rail service between Grand Rapids, Michigan and Chicago the ''Pere Marquette''.
In 2004, The Polar Express featured Pere Marquette 1225, a steam locomotive originally serving the Pere Marquette. The train seen in the movie, although not the same train in the book, was a model of the 1225 based from actual measurements and recordings of the 1225. The locomotive was scheduled to be at the premiere in Grand Rapids, Michigan, originally where the writer of the popular children's book was born, but cancelled due to interferences with the schedule of CSX.
The Pere Marquette also operated a number of rail car ferries on the Detroit and St. Clair Rivers and on Lake Erie and Lake Michigan. The PM's fleet of car ferries, which operated on Lake Michigan from Ludington, Michigan to Milwaukee, Kewaunee, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin (see SS Badger), were an important transportation link avoiding the terminal and interchange delays experienced by freight traveling around the southern tip of Lake Michigan and through Chicago.
On September 10, 1910, Pere Marquette 18 was bound for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from Ludington, Michigan, with a load of 29 railroad freight cars and sixty two persons aboard. Near midnight, the vessel began to take on massive amounts of water. The captain dumped nine railroad cars into Lake Michigan, but there was no use -- the ship was going down. The Pere Marquette 17, traveling nearby, picked up the distress call and sped to assist the floundering vessel. By the time they arrived, there was no more of the ship than thirty-seven survivors floating upon the lake.[1]
★ Pere Marquette Historical Society
★ PM 1225 Steam Railroading Institute
1. Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivors, Ratigan, Bill, , , WM B. Eerdmans, 1977,
The 'Pere Marquette Railway' was a railroad that operated in the Great Lakes region of the United States. The railroad had trackage in the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and the Canadian province of Ontario. Its primary connections included Buffalo, New York, Toledo, Ohio and Chicago, Illinois.
| Contents |
| History |
| Routes |
| Car ferries |
| Pere Marquette 18 |
| References |
History
It was incorporated on January 1, 1900 as the 'Pere Marquette Railroad Company' from the merger of several Michigan railroads, the most prominent being:
★ Flint and Pere Marquette Railway
★ Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad
★ Chicago and West Michigan Railroad
The company was reincorporated on March 12, 1917 as the 'Pere Marquette Railway'.
In the 1920s the Pere Marquette came under the control of Cleveland financiers Oris and Mantis Van Sweringen who also controlled the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, Erie Railroad and Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and planned to merge the four railroads. The ICC did not approve the merger and the Van Sweringen brothers sold their interest in the Pere Marquette to the C&O, with which it formally merged on June 6, 1947. The C&O has since become part of CSX.
In 1984, Amtrak named their passenger rail service between Grand Rapids, Michigan and Chicago the ''Pere Marquette''.
In 2004, The Polar Express featured Pere Marquette 1225, a steam locomotive originally serving the Pere Marquette. The train seen in the movie, although not the same train in the book, was a model of the 1225 based from actual measurements and recordings of the 1225. The locomotive was scheduled to be at the premiere in Grand Rapids, Michigan, originally where the writer of the popular children's book was born, but cancelled due to interferences with the schedule of CSX.
Routes
Car ferries
The Pere Marquette also operated a number of rail car ferries on the Detroit and St. Clair Rivers and on Lake Erie and Lake Michigan. The PM's fleet of car ferries, which operated on Lake Michigan from Ludington, Michigan to Milwaukee, Kewaunee, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin (see SS Badger), were an important transportation link avoiding the terminal and interchange delays experienced by freight traveling around the southern tip of Lake Michigan and through Chicago.
Pere Marquette 18
On September 10, 1910, Pere Marquette 18 was bound for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from Ludington, Michigan, with a load of 29 railroad freight cars and sixty two persons aboard. Near midnight, the vessel began to take on massive amounts of water. The captain dumped nine railroad cars into Lake Michigan, but there was no use -- the ship was going down. The Pere Marquette 17, traveling nearby, picked up the distress call and sped to assist the floundering vessel. By the time they arrived, there was no more of the ship than thirty-seven survivors floating upon the lake.[1]
References
★ Pere Marquette Historical Society
★ PM 1225 Steam Railroading Institute
1. Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivors, Ratigan, Bill, , , WM B. Eerdmans, 1977,
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