Milwaukee, WI: C&O/PM Car Ferry Dock and City of Saginaw 31

(Satellite, the ferry dock slip has been filled in)

Barry Sell posted

Damage to the Municipal Car Ferry Terminal

Photographer

Brown & Rehbaum

Photo of the damage done to the Municipal Car Ferry Terminal in Milwaukee by the car ferry CITY OF SAGINAW 31 (blt 1929).

Date of photo

1943-12-03

Because of this photo (via uwm via uwm "CITY OF SAGINAW 31 (yr. built 1929) being loaded with rail cars, parking lot to the left of the loading operation. At dock - CITY OF SAGINAW 31, background CITY OF MILWAUKEE (yr. built 1930)"), I believe the dock was the "notches" in the northwest corner of Jones Island in the topo map below. The building below appears in the right background of that photo and helped confirm the docks location. Like the GTW car ferry docks that the CITY OF MILWAUKEE was probably headed to, the Pere Marquette interchanged the freight cars with the C&NW.

Street View

1958 Milwaukee Quadrangle @ 1:24,000

Photo via pmcarferries via pchswi  and  PM31

Barry Sell posted
Stern view of the City of Saginaw 31 in floating dry dock
Ship: City of Saginaw 31 (constructed 1929)
Black and white photo of stern view of the screw rail ferry, City of Saginaw 31, in floating dry dock at Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Todd Neff: Burned here, 7/29/71. Over $1 million in damage. Sold for scrap in 1973.