PERE MARQUETTE RAILROAD LANTERN ADAMS & WESTLAKE COMPANY Pere Marquette RR 1895

This is a RARE Vintage piece of Railroad History made by THE ADAMS & WESTLAKE COMPANY for the PERE MARQUETTE RAILROAD. This lantern is marked THE ADAMS AND WESTLAKE COMPANY CHICAGO NEW YORK PERE MARQUETTE, first PAT. Date MAY 28,1895, last date JAN. The lantern is numbered 2293.

The brass burner is marked ADLAKE PATD APRIL 27, 1909, and is in good working condition. The Corning clear glass globe is embossed Pere Marquette in a rectangle, PATD DEC 30, 1902 NO. No cracks some small chips and cast bubbles and chips around the rims. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It had trackage in the states of.

And the Canadian province of. The company was named after Père (French for Father).

Loading salt into a Pere Marquette boxcar. The Pere Marquette Railroad was incorporated on November 1, 1899 in anticipation of a merger of three. Based railroad companies that had been agreed upon by all parties. It began operations on January 1, 1900, absorbing the following companies. Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad.

Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western Railroad. Chicago & West Michigan Railway.

At Grand Central Station in Chicago on December 26, 1967. The company was reincorporated on March 12, 1917 as the. In the 1920s the Pere Marquette came under the control of. These brothers also controlled the. New York, Chicago & St.

And planned to merge the four companies. The C&O has since become part of.

Named its passenger train between. The train in the movie (not the same train in the popular children's book) was a model of #1225 based on measurements and recordings of the 1225. It is the locomotive that. Said was the inspiration for the book, having seen it as a child when it was on the.

The locomotive was scheduled to be at the premiere in Grand Rapids, where the writer was born, but was canceled because of interferences with the schedule of CSX. It is now housed and maintained at the.

#1223 - A 2-8-4 "Berkshire" displayed at Chinook Pier in Grand Haven, Michigan. Special fact: #1223 is the oldest surviving example of the 2-8-4s in America. #1225 - A 2-8-4 "Berkshire" operational by the Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso, Michigan. Special fact: #1225 is the real steam locomotive that made an appearance in the Warner Bros movie the "Polar Express". On July 20, 1907 an excursion train carrying 800 passengers from. This was Michigan's worst rail disaster. To Alexis, Ohio and via trackage rights over. Partially now part of the. Between Baldwin and Ludington in use with. And Saginaw to Midland used by Saginaw Bay Southern, with the rest of the line removed in 1991; the ferry closed in 1990. And (via trackage rights over various lines). By C&O in 1989, most tracks removed; Wellsboro to La Crosse in use by the. Was the basis for the Pere Marquette's longest route, the Chicago-Bay View. Between Grand Rapids and Manistee and by the. Between Grawn and Williamsburg, with the rest abandoned in 1982. And St Thomas east to.

Via trackage rights over the. Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway. Trackage rights over CASO from.

Via two routes and to. Mostly abandoned between 1951 and 1988, some sections in use with the. Postcard depiction of the line's streamliners. Postcard photo of one of the railroad's dining cars. A Pere Marquette Flyer circa 1910.

Ad for a Pere Marquette cruise to Duluth, 1905. The Pere Marquette operated a number of.

, were an important transportation link avoiding the terminal and interchange delays around the southern tip of Lake Michigan and through Chicago. Their superintendent for over 30 years was. Postcard illustration of sinking ferry 18, with ferry 17 coming to its aid. On September 10, 1910, Pere Marquette 18 was bound for.

Near midnight, the vessel began to take on massive amounts of water. The captain dumped nine railroad cars into.

The Pere Marquette 17, traveling nearby, picked up the distress call and sped to assist the foundering vessel. Soon after she arrived and she could come alongside, the Pere Marquette 18 sank with the loss of 28 lives; there were 33 survivors. Her wreck has yet to be located and is the largest unlocated wreck of the Great Lakes. The item "PERE MARQUETTE RAILROAD LANTERN ADAMS & WESTLAKE COMPANY Pere Marquette RR 1895" is in sale since Sunday, January 26, 2020.

This item is in the category "Collectibles\Transportation\Railroadiana & Trains\Hardware\Lanterns & Lamps". The seller is "railcarhobbies" and is located in Warsaw, Missouri. This item can be shipped worldwide.

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Brand: Adams & Westlake Company