The C&O Car Ferry Service in Milwaukee The Badger (built 1951) is still in service—to transport people and automobiles; currently it makes runs across Lake Michigan between Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and Ludington, Michigan. When I saw it back in the late-1970s, it was sailing from Milwaukee on the Wisconsin side, where these two pictures were taken. In the first image, Chesapeake & Ohio EMD SW9 number 5091 (built in 1953) looks on near the C&O ticket office as the car ferry Badger prepares to steam across Lake Michigan. In the second image the Badger has just been loaded and preparing to sail.
I believe railroad car service was in operation from 1953 to 1983. After a hiatus and uncertain future, it was rededicated (in 1992) in as a non-railroad car ferry. Images by Richard Koenig; taken in the late 1970s.