Great Lakes outpost

Great Lakes outpost

By Brian Schmidt | July 21, 2021

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Blue diesel switcher locomotive by Great Lakes carferry boat

Great Lakes outpost

Chesapeake & Ohio SW9 No. 5251 idles by the carferry City of Midland 41 in Milwaukee in 1978. The C&O’s Milwaukee trackage was reached only by the carferries across Lake Michigan. Brian Buchanan photo

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