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SS Pere Marquette 18 was a steel-hulled Great Lakes train ferry that served on Lake Michigan (primarily between the four ports of Ludington, Michigan and Kewaunee, Manitowoc and Milwaukee, Wisconsin) from her construction in 1902 to her sinking in 1910.
The Ludington and Northern Railway, also known as the Dummy Train, or the L&N, is a defunct railroad which operated in Mason County, Michigan between 1902 and 1982. At a length of 2.79 miles (4.49 km), it was for decades the shortest operating common carrier railroad in the state. [1]
Ludington and Northern Railway: LUN 1901 1982 N/A Mackinaw and Marquette Railroad: CP: 1886 1887 Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway: Manistee Railroad: PM: 1880 1889 Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad: Manistee and Grand Rapids Railroad: 1889 1913 Michigan East and West Railway: Manistee and Luther Railroad: 1886 1914 N/A Manistee and ...
The westbound train leaves Grand Rapids during the morning rush, and the eastbound train leaves Chicago after the afternoon rush, enabling same-day business travel between the two cities. The train is named for a named train of the defunct Pere Marquette Railway [5] and in turn for Pere Marquette, Michigan, an early name for Ludington. [6]
James Ludington was the owner of the only mill then at Ludington. He attempted to spin out the talks; though he favored completion of the F&PM, Ludington knew Ward intended to build mills to tap the timber along the Pere Marquette River. Fearing this would make Ward too big, Ludington refused to sell a terminal site or mill sites at any price ...
[1] The facility at Port Hueneme was built as a temporary depot to train, stage, and supply the newly created Seabees. The base was officially established and began operating May 18, 1942 as an Advance Base Depot (ABD).
The train in the 2004 film The Polar Express was modeled after steam locomotive Pere Marquette 1225. The film also included audio recordings of the locomotive in operation. [ 5 ] It is the locomotive that Chris Van Allsburg said was the inspiration for the book, having seen it as a child when it was on the Michigan State University campus.
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