Badger Ferry

Badger Ferry

Lake Michigan, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 2009

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Coal pile that powers the ferry.

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it takes 4 truckloads for a round trip, 60 miles across the lake and back again.
They back in and dump it down the same hole where rail hopper cars used to be dumped.

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Rails are still in the ferry.
No rails on the apron.

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Link to ferry web site: Badger car ferry across Lake Michigan

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Link to my original site, with no advertising, and a complete chronological list of my pages of ALL sites,
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wrote Aug 5, 2009