Manitowoc, WI: Wisconsin Central Depot and Freight House

(Satellite, as with most passenger facilities in the USA, the buildings and tracks are long gone)

I put a blue rectangle around the depot.

1954 Manitowoc Quad @ 24,000

The roundhouse would be out-of-frame to the lower left.

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These passenger facilities west of 10th Street explain why Wisconsin Central ferries had to go so far upriver.

Dennis DeBruler-ferry

And the depot, ferry and freight house explain why WC had tracks across the peninsula.

Dennis DeBruler-bridge

A purpose of  these notes is to save this link to a nice collection of historic photos of Manitowoc, WI.

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