Milwaukee Wabash Terminal
Line to be Extended to Benton Harbor, Mich., and connection made by car ferries.
Milwaukee, Aug. 15 - The announcement was made by officials of the Wabash line who are in the the city today that Milwaukee is to be made the terminal of the Wabash Railroad through a car ferry connection with Benton Harbor, Mich. The line of the road from a point near South Bend, Ind., will be extended to South Bend, and from there to Benton Harbor
A system of car ferries will be run from Benton Harbor to Milwaukee. Terminal facilities will be intalled on property on the lake front which will cost in the neighborhood of $5 million.
NY Times - August 16, 1903
Some miscellaneous railroad history tidbits around Burlington, WI and the surrounding area.
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