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	Pere Marquette Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the 1920s, the Pere Marquette came under the control of Cleveland financiers Oris and Mantis Van Sweringen who also controlled the Nickel Plate, Erie and Chesapeake and Ohio (CandO) railroads 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 CandO, with which it formally merged on June 6, 1947.
		The Pere Marquette also operated a number of rail car ferries on the Detroit and St. Claire Rivers and on Lake Erie and Lake Michigan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pere_Marquette_Railroad (320 words)

	1900 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January 1 - The Pere Marquette Railroad is incorporated and created from the merger of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railway Company, Detriot, Lansing and Northern Railroad and Chicago and West Michigan Railroad.
		The Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Railroad is renamed Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad.
		The Boston and Albany Railroad becomes a subsidiary railroad of the New York Central.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1900_in_rail_transport (247 words)

	Academic Michigan Upper Peninsula Information on Marquette USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Marquette, Nebraska is a rural village located in Hamilton County, some twenty miles northeast of Grand Island or thirteen miles north of Intertstate 80 on Nebraska 14.
		The village of Marquette and the civil township of Marquette are located in Green Lake County, immediately to the east of Marquette County.
		Marquette University, which was chartered by the Jesuits in 1864, opened in 1881 and became a university in 1907, is located in downtown Milwaukee.
	faculty.nmu.edu /upced/UPinfo/Mqts.htm (1183 words)

	The Pere Marquette Historical Society
		The Pere Marquette Railroad Company was formed in 1900 by the merger of numerous Michigan railroads, the most prominent of them being the Flint and Pere Marquette, the Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western, and the Chicago and West Michigan.
		Two Pyle-National locomotive classification lights (used on Pere Marquette Berkshire #1223) and three Handlan #50 kerosene-burning caboose lamps used in the interior of Pere Marquette caboose #A986 were stolen.
		The Pere Marquette Historical Society, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization incorporated in the State of Michigan and recognized by the Internal Revenue Service.
	www.pmhistsoc.org (1368 words)

	Pere Marquette #1225
		At Owosso, the GP-35's were uncoupled from the train and Pere Marquette 1225 was coupled to the train for the run from Owosso to Clare and back.
		Pere Marquette 1225 is entering the station area in Clare under power for the run-by.
		It was sold to Pere Marquette in 1945, was later converted to a baggage car, and still later a crane tender.
	www.fredlux.com /lux/pere1225.html (790 words)

	RRHX - Railroad History Time Line - 1920's
		Pere Marquette installs new augomatic block signals between Grand Ledge and Elmdale (26 miles of single track, 34 signals), and between Wyoming and Grand Rapids (3 miles of double track, 8 signals).
		Pere Marquete builds their 21st Street Engine Terminal, which is used by the PM for freight, passenger and switch engines, as well as the Pennsylvania Railroad for passenger engines.
		Railroads begin many years of operating passenger trains at a loss, with the exception of the war years between 1942 through 1945.
	www.michiganrailroads.com /RRHX/Timeline/TimeLine1920s.htm (2993 words)

	Ludington Area Chamber of Commerce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		French missionary and explorer Father Jacques Marquette landed on the narrow peninsula dividing Pere Marquette Lake from Lake Michigan in the mid-1600s.
		Marquette died and was buried on the Peninsula in 1675.
		In 1897, Pere Marquette Railroad built a fleet of ferries to transport lumber.
	www.ludington.org /index.php?menu=newcomer&content=100 (256 words)

	Montcalm County Community Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Montcalm County was served primarily by three railroads: the Grand Rapids & Indiana, the Pere Marquette, and the Grand Trunk Western.
		The second railroad was the Pere Marquette that would later become the Chesapeake & Ohio.
		The Pere Marquette had many miles of railroad in Montcalm County and at the peak of the logging era hauled a tremendous amount of passengers and freight, including lumber and timber.
	www.montcalm.org /history0021.asp (517 words)

	Huckleberry Railroad
		The branch of the Pere Marquette from Flint to Otter Lake (15 miles) was constructed under the Flint River Railroad Charter and opened in 1872.
		Pere Marquette was absorbed by the CandO (Chesapeake and Ohio) Railroad.
		Of the 7 locomotives, #2 and #464 are the primary locomotives that serve the Huckleberry Railroad.
	www.geneseecountyparks.org /huckleberry_railroad.htm (1127 words)

	Fort Street Union Depot was Pennsy's Gateway to Detroit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Fort Street Union Depot Co. was part of the Union Belt Railroad of Detroit, formed by the Pere Marquette, Wabash, and Pennsylvania railroads.
		Pere Marquette, Wabash, and later C&O diesels were not restricted on the High Line, and could back on their trains and leave town without delay.
		The Pere Marquette then was committed to building a new roundhouse, and expanding its coach yard to handle the additional cars.
	www.detnews.com /metro/hobbies/hotbox/fall93/union/union.htm (1482 words)

	Lake Michigan carferries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pere Marquette-Chesapeake and Ohio was the largest operator of railroad carferries on Lake Michigan.
		Newly merged in 1900, Pere Marquette’s three predecessor railroads, Chicago and West Michigan, Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western, and Flint and Pere Marquette, placed a joint order for four new ferries from American Ship Building of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1901, in order to strengthen its position among the three cross-lake carriers.
		Pere Marquette carferries sailed three routes from a hub in Ludington, Mich., to Milwaukee, Manitowoc, and Kewaunee.
	www.trains.com /Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/001/366uebbl.asp?bitPrintable=1 (1750 words)

	Owosso Michigan Railroad Train Page
		Railroads were once the 'aristocracy of travel' in Shiawassee County and throughout the east and mid-west, as the age of the ironhorse dawned in the 1850's.
		The Ann Arbor Railroad terminated its operation in 1973 and its facility was acquired by the Grand Trunk Western Railroad.
		In 1858, the first Railroad into Lansing was from Owosso and it was known as the Ramshorn road which was owned by A.L. Williams of Owosso.
	www.shiawasseehistory.com /owossotrainindex.html (594 words)

	"Pere Marquette River, Michigan - Great Rivers - Angler's OnLine"
		To the fly fisher the Pere Marquette, or P.M. as it is locally known, is a world class trout and salmon river.
		New hatched fry were transported to the Pere Marquette in 1884, thus giving it the honor of the first brown trout stocking in the United States.
		Though Pere Marquette trout are usually very opportunistic feeders, having to brave bitterly cold winters and the onslaught of migrating salmon and steelhead, the dense hatching period can find them selective about imitation and presentation.
	www.flyanglersonline.com /features/greatrivers/pm (2170 words)

	Ionia's Great Fire
		The problem with this was, the Grand Trunk had to aquire land from the Pere Marquette Railroad to gain access to the new proposed depot from the north.
		The railroad officials will not give figures and declared that they could not even make approximate estimates in case of freight until later.
		The fourth was caused by the burning of the Pere Marquette coal sheds, at 1 o'clock this morning.
	www.merrittscharnweber.com /IoniaFirePage1.html (1987 words)

	Pere Marquette Steamers Photo Gallery
		Pere Marquette 18 II in dry dock for new stern tube Oct 1924.
		The Pere Marquette 20 was sold to the State of Michigan in 1938, and was rebuilt and renamed the City of Munising.
		The Pere Marquette 21 arriving Manitowoc during the summer of 1946.
	carferries.com /pmcarferries (1341 words)

	Pigeon, MI Depot
		The depot in Pigeon is an L-shaped building, built at the crossing of the Pere Marquette, running east-west, and the Pontiac, Oxford and Northern, which ran north to Caseville, on Saginaw Bay.
		In 1889 the railroad was reorganized as the Pontiac, Oxford and Northern.
		The building must have put up by the Pere Marquette as the style is very similar to some other PM depots of the era.
	user.mc.net /~louisvw/depot/pigeon/pigeon.htm (308 words)

	Pere Marquette Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although I never actually saw a Pere Marquette train in action, it had a major influence on the landscape in Charlevoix.
		In 1947, the Pere Marquette was merged into their parent company, the Cheasapeake and Ohio Railroad.
		On my model railroad it is August 3rd, 1956 and the PM still exists as a separate railway.
	home.att.net /~waltandmarlyn/pm-wm-ver-3-2004.htm (321 words)

	Historical Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pere Marquette Railroad station and Railroad Park, Petoskey, Mich.
		Pere Marquette R.R. station and Railroad Park, Petoskey, Mich.
		Engines 4704 and 4051 of the L.S. and M.S. railroad between 1880 and 1920 Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad.
	adsl-68-249-16-94.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net /trains/ply/histpict.html (83 words)

	Trackdog's Carferry Page
		Mighty cold outside as the Pere Marquette 22 battles the ice in this scan, but a much nicer one of her passing the lighthouse at Ludington.
		The Pere Marquette 7, seen on this 1913 schedule card was the steamer Pabst before being acquired by the PM Line Steamers.
		Pere Marquette 14 is shown trapped in the ice at Liberty Beach in 1904.
	members.aol.com /carferry/Carferry.htm (1227 words)

	Pere Marquette Steamers Photo Gallery
		She became part of the Pere Marquette Railroad when it was reorganized in 1901 and was renamed Pere Marquette 16.
		Pere Marquette 16 when she ran aground at Ludington, Dec. 21, 1901.
		Pere Marquette carferry 17 at dock in Ludington after being on the beach for 13 days near Hamlin, Mich -- She was driven ashore in a heavy snow storm December 31, 1908.
	www.carferries.com /pmcarferries (1341 words)

	Vassar, MI Pere Marquette Depot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1889 the Port Huron and North Western was sold to the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad.
		The Pere Marquette was taken over by the CandO, which in turn became part of CSX.
		The remainder of the line was sold to the Saginaw Valley Railroad, which is part of the RailAmerica shortline empire.
	user.mc.net /~louisvw/depot/vassar-pm/vassar.htm (234 words)

	Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Society - Corporate Records
		Authorized to build a railroad from the north boundary of West Bay City, via Bangor and Monitor townships, to the eastern boundary of Williams Township, all in Michigan (1902).
		Authorized to build a railroad from the village of Ionia via counties of Ionia, Clinton, and Ingham to the city of Lansing, all in Michigan (1866).
		Incorporated in Michigan and authorized to build a railroad from connection with Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad near Monroe, Michigan, to southern edge of Monroe County (1893).
	www.cohs.org /history/crec2.htm (2735 words)

	The Carferries of the Great Lakes [Pere Marquette 19]
		The 19, built in 1903, was one of two freight-only carferries built for the Pere Marquette Railroad.
		January 29, 1916 -- The PERE MARQUETTE 19 was released by the PERE MARQUETTE 18 (II).
		February 2, 1924 -- The PERE MARQUETTE 19 was towed to Manitowoc by the PERE MARQUETTE 18 (II) and the tug MERCEREAU.
	carferries.com /pm/PM19 (740 words)

	RRHX - Railroad Wrecks/Disaster Menu
		In forty years of railroad operations, this was the most serious wreck in Michigan.
		The dispatcher was faulted for not holding the excursion train at Salem until he was sure that the freight had cleared (though it was noted that the station agent at Salem was gone to the post office at the time that the excursion train passed).
		The Master Mechanic of the Pere Marquette was also faulted for burning the remains of the railroad cars the night of the collision.
	www.michiganrailroads.com /RRHX/Wrecks/WrecksMenu.htm (3530 words)

	Brief History of County
		Homesteaders began arriving just prior to the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad (1870) and claimed the better agricultural acreages under the Homestead Act of 1862, or by exchanging Military Script for eighty acres or more.
		The Flint and Pere Marquette railroad came to Clare in 1870 and was extended to Evart in 1871.
		This innovative railroad extended the wealth of the County by 300%, but most of this new money went to Saginaw, Muskegon, and Chicago.
	www.clareco.net /history_county.htm (421 words)

	Grand Rapids Model Railroad Historical Society - Pere Marquette
		The Grand Rapids Model Railroad Historical Society was established for the purpose of promoting and preserving the hobby of model railroading, the history of railroads and railroading in the Grand Rapids area and providing a forum for the exchange of information about railroads in general.
		It is a goal of the Society to construct an operating scale model railroad "layout" to illustrate the history of the area railroads in a three dimensional form.
		This layout has been designed to represent the Pere Marquette Railroad, circa 1945, as it existed between Grand Rapids and Bay View, Michigan (known as the Petoskey Sub Division).
	www.grmrhs.org (647 words)

	Berkshires & Kanawhas
		This new 2-8-4 locomotive was sent to the Boston and Albany Railroad by Lima in the early spring of 1925 for test on that railroad.
		Notably among them were the Boston and Albany Railroad, the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Erie Railroad, the Illinois Central Railroad, the Nickel Plate Road and the Pere Marquette Railroad.
		Twenty of the "Berkshire" type locomotives exist today: 2 from the Pere Marquette, 6 from the Nickel Plate Road and 12 of the C and O's 2-8-4 locomotives, which they called "Kanawhas".
	www.steamlocomotive.com /berkshire (555 words)

	Michigan Historical Marker: Flint and Pere Marquette Depot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Marlette residents lured the railroad by raising $15,000 toward construction of the tracks.
		The line extended from Saginaw Junction in St. Clair County to Marlette in January 1881, and Marlette and Mayville line opened in the fall.
		The Flint & Pere Marquette purchased the Port Huron & Northwestern in 1889.
	www.michmarkers.com /Pages/Y2002I.htm (108 words)

	UTU: News
		Don Saunders, Amtrak Central Division General Superintendent, joined city, state and federal officials to cut the ribbon to reopen the renovated and expanded station that was first opened by the Pere Marquette Railroad almost 79 years ago.
		CSX Transportation is the successor to the Pere Marquette Railroad and has leased the station's platform to Amtrak for improvement by the City of Bangor.
		The new brick structure was completed in June of 1926, for a cost to the Pere Marquette Railroad of $30,000.
	www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=21104 (640 words)

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