Michigan has a long list of rail plans, according to Kliewer, one of which is to increase frequency on the Blue Water, Wolverine and Pere Marquette routes. “The more frequencies you have, the ...

Lake State Railway on Thursday (Aug. 21, 2025) unveiled a new heritage locomotive honoring the predecessor Pere Marquette ...

Railway Age’s 2021 Regional of the Year and 2018 Short Line of the Year, has rolled out a locomotive in a heritage scheme ...

Michigan Department of Transportation, or MDOT, received up to $500,000 per corridor to update and develop intercity rail corridors in the Great Lakes State. (Federal Railroad Administration/WWMT ...

Members of the Port Huron Yacht Club are set to vote Sunday on plans to remove the Pere Marquette Railroad Bridge. The measure allow the board to spend up to $300,000 for the removal of the bridge ...

Later that year, the James C. Acheson Foundation offered Friends of the Pere Marquette Railroad Bridge up to $35,000 in matching funds to repair and maintain the the bridge, with then-Yacht Club ...

Early in the morning on Sept. 9 of that year, the Pere Marquette 18 left Ludington, Mich., carrying close to 30 rail cars and 62 crew members, for the short trip to Milwaukee.

After 110 years at the bottom of Lake Michigan, the SS Pere Marquette 18 was found off the coast of Sheboygan by two Minnesota shipwreck hunters.

Michigan State University Press will bring out Graydon M. Meints' new book, "Pere Marquette: A Michigan Railroad System Before 1900" this summer.

Marquette was among the first European travelers to explore the area in the 1600s. References to the missionary are a permanent fixture throughout northern Michigan.

Potter was a son of Dr. H. C. Potter of Saginaw, now 80 years old, and one of the builders of the Père Marquette Railroad, and a brother of the late William F. Potter, President at the time of ...