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ANN ARBOR RAILROAD - CARFERRY ROUTES

ANN ARBOR RAILROAD - CARFERRY ROUTES

Port of Frankfort, Michigan ( Elberta, boat slips) connecting to:

1)

Kewaunee, Wisconsin connecting with Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western (GB&W) - 1892 to

2)

Menonminee, Michigan connecting with Wisconsin & Michigan; Milwaukee Road; Chicago Northwestern - 1894 to 1970

3)

Gladstone, Michigan connecting with Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic (Soo Line)
Also stopped at Excanaba, Michigan Municiple Dock for a call for passengers.  After service was discontinued from Northport, Michigaan to Gladstone, Michigan, by Manistique, Marquette & Northern, the Ann Arbor purchased the apron which was brought to Frankfort and used at the west slip.  Service was transferred from Gladstone to Manistique, Michigan in 1898 and officially suspended in 1902.

4)

Manitowoc, Wisconsin connecting with Wisconsin Central (Soo Line); Chicago Northwestern - 1896 to embargoed in 1973 by laying up of the Arthur K. Atkinson in 1973 with a broken crankshaft on the port engine.

5)

Manistique, Michigan connecting with Manistique & Lake Superior; Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic (Soo Line) - 1898 to 1968
Manistique & Lake Superior purchased by Ann Arbor RR in 1911.  Line abandoned in 1968 for lack of traffic.

Web page by Henry F. Burger 11/8/2012