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SS Badger is a passenger and vehicle ferry in the United States that has been in service on Lake Michigan since 1953. Currently, the ship shuttles between Ludington, Michigan, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin, a distance of 62 miles (100 km), connecting U.S. Highway 10 (US 10) between those two cities.
SS City of Midland 41 was a train ferry serving the ports of Ludington, Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and Kewaunee, Wisconsin, for the Pere Marquette Railway and its successor, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from 1941 until 1988. The ferry was named after the city of Midland, Michigan.
SS Spartan is a railroad car ferry on Lake Michigan owned by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) from 1952 through 1979. It alternated routes from Ludington, Michigan, to Milwaukee, Kewaunee, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
The car ferry’s 70th season was cut short in mid-July after a mechanical failure of its ramping system in Ludington, Michigan. The Badger carries thousands of vehicles and passengers from ...
By the mid-1950s, Ludington had become the largest car ferry port in the world. Unfortunately, due to disuse and declining industry, the fleet eventually dwindled. Currently only one carferry, the SS Badger, makes regular trips across the lake from Ludington, one of only two lake-crossing car ferries on Lake Michigan. [citation needed]
Badger is now used as an automobile ferry between Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and Ludington, Michigan and represents one of the last large coal-burning passenger-carrying steamers in the world. Lake Michigan – Milwaukee, Wisconsin , to Muskegon or Grand Haven , Michigan, was the Lake Michigan car ferry service of the Grand Trunk Western Railroad ...
SS Badger connects the Wisconsin and Michigan segments of US 10. US 10 enters the state after it crosses Lake Michigan from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, to Ludington.Traffic is carried across the lake during the summer months on SS Badger, a privately owned car ferry. [6]
Washington Island Ferry (I) Washington Island, Wisconsin: Connecting: County Road W WIS 42 (S) Northport, Door County, Wisconsin: SS Badger (E) Ludington, Michigan: US 10 "Bucky Badger", athletic mascot for the University of Wisconsin–Madison (W) Manitowoc, Wisconsin: Lake Express Ferry (E) Muskegon, Michigan: Connections with: Muskegon ...