There are more photos in PM Ferry Dock in Port Huron, MI.
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| Brendon Baillod posted This is an uncommon view of Black River at Port Huron, Michigan. a large fleet of vessels is moored, perhaps for Winter layup. A large three-masted topsail schooner is shown on the left, a rarity after 1900. |
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| Association for Great Lakes Maritime History posted An image from a dry plate negative of the Black River in Port Huron, Mich. circa 1900-1915 (Image Source: Library of Congress – Detroit Publishing Co. Collection). According to the collection notes added by Charles Seavey and Charles Ipcar in 2015, the vessel on the left is the William Brake after it had been re-rigged as a ketch. The vessel’s hull is also showing signs of warping. [The description continues with a history of the William Brake.] |
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| Charles Geletzke Jr. posted I think this might be my favorite C&O (PM) photo that I, personally, ever took. On June 3, 1974 I was able to climb up on the C&O's Drawbridge over the Black River in Port Huron, Michigan and shot this photo of their yard looking south. (C. H. Geletzke, Jr. photo) Rob Kitchen: On the left, in the background, is the C&O car ferry dock, and on the right, in the background, is the GTW car ferry dock. Friends of the Pere Marquette Railroad Bridge, Inc. shared |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on the share A comment by Rob Kitchen confirms that the left ferry dock is C&O/PM and the right one is GTW. |
GTW built a 19' 10" tunnel under the St. Clair River during 1888-1891. But the autorack and 85' auto-part cars introduced in the late 1960s were too tall to use the tunnel. So GTW and Pere Marquette reintroduced ferry service. The ferries were also needed to handle cars containing hazardous materials. The introduction of double-stack container cars increased the ferry traffic. So a 31' diameter tunnel was opened in 1994 just north of the old tunnel and the ferries were again retired. [DeBruler]
Nov 1872: Car ferry service began between Sarnia, Ontario, and Port Huron with the ferry Saginaw.1902: Pere Marquette Railroad began Port Huron-Sarnia car ferry service.
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| Screenshot [Note the Abt Trunnion bridge in the top middle of this photo. Of course, the PM ferry dock is in the bottom middle.] |
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| Screenshot, PM + GTW, this was the same photo as above but the video has panned and zoomed in on the photo |
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| Screenshot, two ferries are in town. Is an auto train destined to Canada expected to arrive soon? |
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| Screenshot, again, it is autorack cars that could not fit in the tunnel. |
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| Screenshot, the video has additional ferry photos |
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| Screenshot, this is a video of a ferry in Detroit. I include it because it shows how three flat cars were used between the locomotive and the autoracks to keep the locomotive's weight off the apron that floats up and down to match the height of the ferry. Note the high-and-wide truck beds on the ferry to the right. They were also probably too big to fit in the tunnel. |
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| Charles Geletzke Jr. posted Here is a view of the east end of GTW's Ferry Yard in Port Huron, Michigan taken on July 18, 1989. (C. H. Geletzke, Jr. photo) Charles Geletzke Jr. shared |
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