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CPR's Slocan train ferry
Canadian Pacific Railway employee news publications.
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CPR's Slocan train ferry
Canadian Pacific Railway employee news publications.
SS Sainte Marie (II) keeping St. Marys River open in winter of 1917 – built by the Toledo Shipbuilding Company in 1913, 2383 tons, capacity 14 cars on 3 tracks. One of the best icebreakers on the Great Lakes. She was the backup for the SS Chief Wawatam. Retired in 1961. Source of Photograph: National Archives, RG-165
http://www.mhsd.org/publications/glswr/stmarie.htm
CN car ferry Lansdowne is pictured on the Detroit River at Windsor in May 1964, loaded with open autoracks full of new vans. Lansdowne was the last sidewheeler paddle boat operating on the Great Lakes, originally built in 1884 and taken out of service in 1970 when she blew the cylinder head of her port engine. After that, it had a varied life as a restaurant (with a pair of former Milwaukee Road Skytop Lounge cars on its deck) and was tied up at several US ports and allowed to deteriorate. She was scrapped in 2009. Photo by Bill Thomson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Lansdowne
Just freed from the icy grip of Lake Michigan on a 4 degree February 18, 1979, the City of Milwaukee waits to follow the car ferry Viking to Kewaunee, Wi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_City_of_Milwaukee
The S.S. SPARTAN departs Manitowoc, Wisconsin on a cold day with her bow partially iced over.
A collection of photos from back in January 1967. C&O carferries breaking ice outside of Ludington. Michigan.
July 1978, Elberta, MI. Ann Arbor S3 10 loads cars on to the Viking as the Arthur K. Atkinson sits in Betsie Bay laid up with a bent crankshaft. This scene of loading ferries lasted just another year when ferry service was ended on the Ann Arbor. Unfortunately, everything in this shot has been either pulled up or scrapped, and the yard turned into a park. 35mm slide from my collection, photo by Jim Crosby. Special thanks to Bob Edmonson for his insight and experience at this location around the time of this photo on the disposition of the AKA to help describe the scene. Kyle Korienek Collection.