Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad
The Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad (F&PM) is a defunct railroad which operated in the U.S. state of Michigan between 1857 and 1899. It was one of the three companies which merged to become the Pere Marquette Railway.
Preferred stock of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad Company, issued 1. July 1882
The Pere Marquette Railway was a railroad that operated in the Great Lakes region of the United States and southern parts of Ontario in Canada. It had trackage in the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and the Canadian province of Ontario. Its primary connections included Buffalo; Toledo; and Chicago.
The company was named after Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Ste Marie.
Loading salt into a Pere Marquette boxcar
C&O's The Pere Marquette at Grand Central Station in Chicago on December 26, 1967
Postcard depiction of the line's streamliners.
Postcard photo of one of the railroad's dining cars.