Pere Marquette (C&O train)
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The Pere Marquette was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Pere Marquette Railway and its successor the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway between Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan. It operated fr
A postcard depicts the Pere Marquette departing Detroit in the late 1940s.
The Chesapeake and Ohio's Pere Marquette, near Gary, Ind. on November 26, 1965
Chessie (train)
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The Chessie was a proposed streamlined passenger train developed by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in the late 1940s. The brainchild of C&O executive Robert R. Young, the Chessie would have operated
Pere Marquette (C&O train)
…Company to establish new streamliners between Grand Rapids and Chicago. This equipment was surplus from another of Robert Young's projects, the abortive Chessie, a proposed luxury streamliner. In 1950 new equipment from Pullman-Standard replaced the 1946 cars, which the C&O sold to the Chicago and Eastern…
#500, one of three Class M-1 steam turbine locomotives delivered to the C&O for the Chessie. The locomotives proved unreliable and were quickly scrapped.
The line issued this postcard depiction of the train's observation car with dome.