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The company was founded in November 2005 by Kevin Ruble, a nationally active railroad consultant, who purchased a CSX line running north from Grand Rapids to Ludington and Manistee. The railroad maintains its trackage to 40 mph (64 km/h) standards, and operates, as of 2008, seven EMD GP38-2 and EMD SD40-2 locomotives.
The company was reincorporated on March 12, 1917, as the Pere Marquette Railway. In the 1920s the Pere Marquette came under the control of Cleveland financiers Oris and Mantis Van Sweringen . These brothers also controlled the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate), the Erie Railroad and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway , and ...
St. Louis Bridge Company: Illinois and St. Louis Railroad and Coal Company: SOU: 1865 1889 Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Consolidated Railroad: Illinois South Eastern Railway: B&O: 1867 1870 Springfield and Illinois South Eastern Railway: Illinois Southern Railway: MP: 1900 1920 Missouri–Illinois Railroad: Illinois and Southern Iowa ...
Wisconsin Central Company: Pere Marquette Railroad: PM: 1899 1917 Pere Marquette Railway: Pere Marquette Railway: PM PM 1917 1947 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: Pere Marquette Railroad of Indiana: PM: 1903 1907 Pere Marquette Railroad: Pinconning Railroad: NYC: 1879 1880 Saginaw Bay and Northwestern Railroad: Pleasant Bay Railway: CN/ NKP: 1898 1899
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 carrier was incorporated by a syndicate under the general laws of the States of Michigan and Wisconsin and acquired by consolidation the property of The Mackinaw & Marquette Railroad Company and the charter rights granted to the Sault Ste. Marie and Marquette Railroad Company, The Duluth, Superior and Michigan Railway Company, and the Wisconsin, Sault Ste. Marie & Mackinac Railway Company.
The C&WM's first new line was a 37-mile (60 km) extension south from New Buffalo to La Crosse, Indiana, which opened in November 1882.In 1884 the C&WM bought the White River Railroad, which it had previously leased, which controlled a 29.86-mile (48.06 km) line from White Cloud to Baldwin (where it joined the Flint & Pere Marquette).
In 1892, the railroad contracted with the Grand Rapids firm of Pelton & Company to construct this depot. Work began in May and was completed by July, with the first trains running into Charlevoix in June. In 1900, the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad merged with two other railroads to create the Pere Marquette Railroad. The railroad promoted ...