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The company continued to operate separately as the Pere Marquette Railway until being fully merged into the C&O on June 6, 1947. Forty years later, the C&O was absorbed into CSX Transportation. In 1984, Amtrak named its passenger train between Chicago and Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Pere Marquette. [4] The train in the 2004 film The Polar ...
Jacques Marquette, S.J. (French pronunciation: [ʒak maʁkɛt]; June 1, 1637 – May 18, 1675), [1] sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, [2] was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Sainte Marie, and later founded Saint Ignace.
The Pere Marquette is a passenger train in the United States, operated by Amtrak as part of its Michigan Services on the 176-mile (283 km) route between Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Chicago, Illinois. It is funded in part by the Michigan Department of Transportation and is train 370 eastbound and train 371 westbound. [ 4 ]
The Pere Marquette 1225 typically pulls hundreds of passengers on a 4½-hour excursion from Owosso to Ashley on weekends beginning in late November. One of Michigan's most famous trains, the Pere ...
The Port Huron and Northwestern Railway (PH&NW) Nicknamed "The Port Huron Road", is a defunct railway which operated in the Thumb area of Michigan during the late 1800s. The company was chartered by a group of Port Huron, Michigan businessmen on March 23, 1878, it opened its first line, Port Huron to Croswell, on May 12, 1879.
The Port Huron & Detroit Railroad owned a freight yard in Port Huron that ran parallel to and on the south side of GTW and C&O's trackage there. The railroad's headquarters building and its locomotive repair house were located in Port Huron. [8] Port Huron & Detroit Railroad Locomotive Number 62 at Port Huron, Michigan January 5, 1976
Lake Michigan Passenger Steamers. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-4240-5. OCLC 49942913. Ivey, Paul (1919). The Pere Marquette Railroad Company. Lansing, MI: Michigan Historical Commission. OCLC 66109442. Kirkpatrick, Frank A. (Fall 1968). "The Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron: An Early Railroad of Michigan's Thumb". Michigan History.
Michigan State Police Lt. Dave Busacca speaks at the Peace Officer Memorial Day ceremony in Port Huron on May 15, 2024.