Pere Marquette Railway
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The Pere Marquette Railway (reporting mark PM) 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, and the Canadian province of Ontario. Its primary connections included Buffalo; Toledo; and Chicago. The company was named after Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Ste Marie.
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Headquarters | Cleveland, Ohio |
Reporting mark | PM |
Locale | Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, New York, and Wisconsin |
Dates of operation | 1900ā1947 |
Successor | Chesapeake and Ohio later CSX |
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Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1ā2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
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