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The Pere Marquette Railway (reporting mark PM) was a railroad that operated in the Great Lakes region of the United States and southern parts of Ontario in Canada. It had trackage in the states of Michigan , Ohio , Indiana , and the Canadian province of Ontario .
Seeing the potential, the Pere Marquette purchased the Bay City and East Saginaw line in 1867. The first train pulled into Bay City on November 23, 1867. [2] By 1899, the Pere Marquette had merged with other railways and was the largest in Michigan. They built several new passenger and freight depots over the next few years. [2]
The Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad (F&PM) is a defunct railroad which operated in the U.S. state of Michigan between 1857 and 1899. [1] It was one of the three companies which merged to become the Pere Marquette Railway .
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 ...
Pere Marquette carferry being launched in 1896. The SS Pere Marquette (also Pere Marquette 15) was the world's first steel train ferry.It sailed on Lake Michigan and provided a service between the ports of Ludington, Michigan, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin, for the Pere Marquette Railway from 1897 to 1930.
The Chesapeake and Ohio's Pere Marquette, near Gary, Ind. on November 26, 1965 The C&O applied the Pere Marquette name to the Chicago trains in 1965. [ 8 ] At Amtrak's inception there was a single round-trip between Chicago and Grand Rapids, two between Grand Rapids and Detroit, and a connecting train between Holland, Michigan and Muskegon ...
This category contains railroad companies that became part of the Pere Marquette Railway system, usually through consolidation. Pages in category "Predecessors of the Pere Marquette Railway" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
Marquette: Milwaukee Road: Chicago, Illinois – Mason City, Iowa [1940] 1938-1950 Marquette: Pere Marquette: Chicago, Illinois – Grand Rapids, Michigan Marquette: Amtrak: Chicago, Illinois – Milwaukee, Wisconsin [1982] 1980-1983 Marylander: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Reading Railroad, and Central Railroad of New Jersey