Great lakes RR car ferry drawing/plans needed

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can anyone help me out with this I'm going to model the 1959 era and the area will be around the Michigan great lakes ect ect area and need help with finding plans or drawing of the great lakes car ferries that fit that era thanks for your time and any help is appreciated

[jakeloyst]

I know there was some was some articles a while back in mainline modeler, now out of print but maybe someone has them

[c415rock]

HI Vince,

What area of Michigan are you looking to model? That will determine what plans you will need. For example there is a Detroit river car ferry, A Straits of Mackinaw ferry or a Lake Michigan car ferry. If you want a Lake Michigan car ferry what port are you looking to model? That will determine what roads boat / boats plans you will be looking for. Next question is how detailed of drawings are you looking for? I know I have a set of drawings for the City of Milwaukee. Which was a GTW boat and is a museum ship now. I think I have general arrangement drawings for the Viking and the AKA. Both of these were Ann Arbor boats. These drawings give overall measurements but are not detailed. If you are looking for drawings of the Spartan,Badger, or the City of Midland there are drawings in the back of the Arcadia Press books for these boats.

www.arcadiapublishing.com/9780738523040/SS-Badger-The-Lake-Michigan-Car-Ferry

www.arcadiapublishing.com/9780738532530/SS-City-of-Midland-41

www.arcadiapublishing.com/9780738583204/SS-City-of-Milwaukee

www.arcadiapublishing.com/9780738534299/The-Ann-Arbor-Railroad

Just let me know what you are looking for and I will do my best to help you out.

Erik

[T]

Also here

fleetsgreatlakesfreighters.com/

www.boatnerd.com/pictures/pictures.htm

www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/buffalo.htm

www.lakerart.com/links.htm

Tom

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thanks Tom most of the list you posted is 2 new for me as I model the fall of 1959.

thanks Erik that is exactly the boats I'm talking about as I was thinking of doing an Ann Arbor style HCD diorama with a big boat  backed into the dock so any drawings or info on those boats would be very much appreciated

man I hate being broke

[sbhunterca]

You might want to contact The Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston, Ontario:

www.marmuseum.ca/index.php/research/about-the-collection

They have an amazing archival collection including many sets of drawings (for example, a couple of CN's Prince Edward Island carferries). They may have exactly what you need.

Steve Hunter

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thanks all I have found some plans to work from just need to get the courage up to start building my great lakes car ferry

[morey2001]

April 1978 MR has drawings for the City of Milwaukee.....in 1/2 N scale I believe...also Donald Manlick has photos online somewhere of an HO Great Lakes ferry and a Detroit River boat he also built

Chris Morey

[largemike]

If you can find a copy of the video "Vignettes of the Ann Arbor Railroad", it has a section with these boats in it, including a short walkaround inside the freight car hold, watching the loading and unloading of freight cars, the on deck loading apron and on the cabin deck of the City of Milwaukee. Lots of good detail scenes if you want.
Seeing these boats being loaded/unloaded and the side list they had, it's amazing they didn't capsize, although I know a few did from time to time.
As I played the video, I would pause the tape and just take a photo of the scene with my camera, so I would have quick reference photos to build with, although I never will, as I'm planning on modeling the ACL, SCL, GM&O, Frisco & L&N around Birmingham AL now.
Large Mike

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LargeMike like you my modeling has changed from modeling the great lakes and n scale to the present era of 1980-82 in ho and modeling the mid & lower midwest to the gulf & on into Florida. with my freelanced KCW that took over my original freelanced road the Indian Rock.