TRANSPORTATION · HISTORICAL MARKER

Fish and Rails

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From the 1880s to 1931, hatcheries used railcars to move fish to planting sites. Workers transferred fish from ponds to ten-gallon milk cans and then to a specially modified railcar. Michigan’s last fish car was the Wolverine.
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