We toured the S.S. City of Milkwaukeee which is a national Historical Monument/Park located in Manistee, Michigan, USA. The first City of Milkwaukee went down in a storm. This was railroad car ferry and these only a few of the pictures we too--probably about 200 pix! It was VERY interesting. The man in two of the pictures who is not Biker Buddy was out tour guide. He gave us SO much information!!!! I could never remember it all, I should have taped it! One thing he told us was that the lifeboats never saved any lives because they took too long to deploy. The railroad car ferries saved the railroad a lot of time and were very important until new tracks and hubs were laid through Chicago and then they became obsolete. The SS Milwaukee was one of the best and fastest and had engine improvements that allowed it to be more cost effective and therefor ran longer than many of the others. 7/10/08
Been away for a couple days. And--advance warning--am leaving Saturday or Sunday for Upstate NY for a week.
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You know I could be wrong about this but several years back we went across Lake Michigan, and I think maybe we left from roundabout Milwaukee, on a ferry with Pat and her hubbie Marlow. The ferry was very old though but presumably it was not this one. Must have been about 1995 I reckon. We carried on to Detroit and visited Greenfield Village which was where Marlow had his hear attack. Spent most of the rest of the holiday at the hospital in Ann Arbour and Geoff and I had to drive the car back again to Eau Claire. We went right through Chicago in the rush hour.
City of Milwauke certainly looks a great old ship and very interesting.
I got LOTS more pix--this one is pretty OLD, older than 55 I think (?) I forget--too much info.
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