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In my VERY early years it was the Grand Trunk which turned a daily sand train in Muskegon Michigan. Later it was the Manistee & Noreastern (known by the locals as the Manistee and Nowhere Else) which ran by my grandfathers fruit farm in Manistee and Onekama, Michigan. During my high school years, my (later) father-in-law operated the Ludington & Northern, a wholly owned subsidary of the Sergeant Sand Company. They hauled sand over a five mile route from the sand dunes of Lake Michigan to an interchange with the C7O in Ludington. The sand ended up at the Ford River Rouge plant in Detroit or at a Libby Owens Ford glass plant. <br />Then of course there were the C&O carferries which operated out of Ludington to Milwaukee, Manitowoc & Kewanee Wisconsin. They ran 7 boats, 'round the clock 24-7 for a lot of years. One boat the SS Badger still operates from May - October hauling cross lake auto and truck traffic from Ludington to Manitowoc.
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