Steam Railroading Institute
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The Steam Railroading Institute is a non-profit organization that preserves, restores, and operates historical railroad equipment and items. Located in Owosso, Michigan, it was founded in 1969 as the
Steam Railroading Institute building in Owosso, MI.
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Pere Marquette Railway
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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
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…rolling stock. In the late 1950s, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Chairman Cyrus Eaton sought to donate No. 1225, a steam locomotive recently retired by the Pere Marquette Railway, to Michigan State University's College of Engineering so the students could work on a piece of real equipment and keep the locomotive from the scrapyard…
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, the Pere Marquette.
Postcard of one of the railroad's dining cars.