The historic steamship City of Midland 41 sailed the waters of Lake Michigan for nearly half a century, transporting railroad cars, automobiles, and passengers. After her construction in 1941 by the revered Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, the nation's newspapers and newsreel services covered her launching and maiden voyage with enthusiastic flair. In time, she became the most beloved of all the Great Lakes car ferries. She was built as the flagship for the Pere Marquette Railway's Lake Michigan ferry fleet, and signified a bold departure from traditional Great Lakes vessel design. Her sleek outboard profile, spacious passenger accommodations, and modern interior furnishings were a hit with the traveling public. By the time she was retired from service in 1988, she had served both the Pere Marquette and Chesapeake & Ohio Railroads, transported thousands of travelers as a passenger ferry, and become known as the "Queen of the Great Lakes Car Ferries."
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Presenting a collection of rare archival photographs, most of them previously unpublished, car ferry historian Art Chavez details the unique legacy of this stately ship, from the inception of the car ferries in the 1880s through the City of Midland's venerable career in the last half of the twentieth century. Chavez is the author of S.S. Badger: The Lake Michigan Car Ferry, also published by Arcadia.
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A wonderful picture of a forgoten era.,
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This review is from: S.S. City of Midland 41 (MI) (Images of America) (Paperback)
I have to admit my grandfather Theron "Tuffy" Haas is the first picture in this book. He loved the "41" and spent his life working on her. The book commemorates the era of the 'car ferry' when Lake Michigan presented an obstacle to rail traffic in the mid-west. These boats represent some of the last coal-powered steam engines in use and the "41" was the premier of her lot. This book focuses on the pictures of the the boats before her, the "41" herself and the people who built and ran her. Art has another book about the "Badger" (built in the 50's) which remains as the last boat in operation out of Ludington and still transports automobiles across Lake Michigan. Great photographs.
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Railroad car ferries (the car in car ferry refers to railroad cars, not automobiles, as in the modern American vernacular) in their simplest form appeared on the Great Lakes river systems in the 1850s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ferry fleet, car deck, observation lounge, car ferries, cabin deck, car ferry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pere Marquette, City of Midland, Courtesy Wisconsin Maritime Museum, Lake Michigan, Manitowoc Shipbuilding, Great Lakes, Art Chavez, City of Flint, Captain Barth, Courtesy Robert, Captain Robertson, City of Saginaw, First Mate, Chessie System, Courtesy Skinner Engine Company, Green Bay, Ken Ottmann, Max Hanley, Peppard Collection, Courtesy Audrey Robertson Boals Collection, Skinner Unaflow, Captain Charles, Doug Goodhue, Grand Haven, Gregg Andersen New!
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Railroad car ferries (the car in car ferry refers to railroad cars, not automobiles, as in the modern American vernacular) in their simplest form appeared on the Great Lakes river systems in the 1850s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ferry fleet, car deck, observation lounge, car ferries, cabin deck, car ferry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pere Marquette, City of Midland, Courtesy Wisconsin Maritime Museum, Lake Michigan, Manitowoc Shipbuilding, Great Lakes, Art Chavez, City of Flint, Captain Barth, Courtesy Robert, Captain Robertson, City of Saginaw, First Mate, Chessie System, Courtesy Skinner Engine Company, Green Bay, Ken Ottmann, Max Hanley, Peppard Collection, Courtesy Audrey Robertson Boals Collection, Skinner Unaflow, Captain Charles, Doug Goodhue, Grand Haven, Gregg Andersen New!
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- Steam Engine (Inside-Outside Puzzles) by Straight Edge Press in Back Matter
- Normandie: Her Life and Times by Harvey Ardman on page 19
- The Great Lakes Car Ferries by George Woodman Hilton in Back Matter
- Great Lakes by Rh Value Publishing in Back Matter
- The Public Library (In the High Street) by Graeme Kent on page 18
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