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==Transportation== ===Highways=== No [[Interstate Highway System|interstate highways]] pass through Marinette. * [[File:US 41.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Route 41 in Wisconsin|US 41]] south connects with [[Peshtigo, Wisconsin|Peshtigo]]. North it continues into Michigan. * [[File:WIS 64.svg|25px]] [[WIS 64]] westbound connects with [[Antigo, Wisconsin|Antigo]] and [[Mountain, Wisconsin|Mountain]]. * [[File:WIS 180.svg|25px]] [[WIS 180]] north connects with [[Wausaukee, Wisconsin|Wausaukee]]. ===Bus=== [[File:UP 1995, Rochelle, 2007-03-11.jpg|right|thumb|200px|C&NW locomotives.]] * [[Greyhound Bus]] and [[Amtrak Thruway]] service Marinette.<ref>{{cite web |title=Marinette, WI (MWI) {{!}} Amtrak |url=https://www.amtrak.com/stations/mwi |website=www.amtrak.com |publisher=National Railroad Passenger Corporation |access-date=9 November 2023 |language=en |date=2023}}</ref> * [[Indian Trails]] bus lines operates daily intercity bus service between [[Hancock, MI|Hancock]] and [[Milwaukee, WI]] with a stop in Marinette.<ref>{{cite web|title=HANCOCK-MARQUETTE-GREEN BAY-MILWAUKEE |publisher=[[Indian Trails]] |date=January 12, 2012 |access-date=February 27, 2013 |url=http://www.indiantrails.com/sites/default/files/1490_0.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222225859/http://www.indiantrails.com/sites/default/files/1490_0.pdf |archive-date=February 22, 2014 }}</ref> ===Rail=== Historically, the [[Chicago and Northwestern Railway]] served Marinette. The CNW's ''[[Peninsula 400]]'' (Chicago – Green Bay – Ishpeming) ran until 1969 and its [[Sleeping car#History|night train]] counterpart, the ''Iron Country,'' ran until 1960 or 1961.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Scribbins |first=Jim |url=http://www.trainlife.com/articles/239/the-400 |title=The 400 |magazine=RailNews |number=398 |date=March 1997 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102145630/http://www.trainlife.com/articles/239/the-400 |archive-date=2 January 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite periodical |title=Chicago and North Western Railway Company, Table 22|periodical=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=90 |issue=12 |date=May 1960}}</ref><ref>The night train eliminated. {{cite periodical |title=Chicago and North Western Railway Company, Table 16|periodical=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=94 |issue=1 |date=June 1961}}</ref> There is currently no [[Passenger rail transport in the United States|passenger rail service]] in Marinette. Freight rail service is still available. Freight railroad service is now provided by [[Wisconsin Central Ltd.]] (WCL), the legal name of the [[Canadian National Railway Company]] in Wisconsin. The [[Escanaba_and_Lake_Superior_Railroad|Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad]] also provides freight railroad service to Marinette by means of an Agreement with CN<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=MRA Rail Update |title=Moving Michigan |date=Spring 2018 |page = 3 |url = https://michiganrailroadsassociation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2018-Spring-Rail-Update-web.pdf |access-date = July 14, 2021 }}</ref> to provide switching services to both CN & E&LS customers in Marinette and to use CN trackage in Marinette to access E&LS customers in Menominee, Mi. The E&LS line from [[Crivitz,_Wisconsin|Crivitz]] Wi. to Marinette is used by E&LS to serve a few customers there, but is primarily used by the E&LS for railcar storage. This branch was formerly a Milwaukee Road ([[Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad|Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad]] Co.) rail line. ===Airport=== The nearest airport is the [[Menominee-Marinette Twin County Airport]] in Menominee, Michigan. Historically, direct commercial service to [[Green Bay-Austin Straubel International Airport]], [[Ford Airport (Iron Mountain)|Iron Mountain-Ford Airport]], [[Door County Cherryland Airport]], [[O'Hare International Airport]], and [[Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport]] as well as connecting flights to [[Detroit Metropolitan Airport]], [[Capital Region International Airport]], and [[Gerald R. Ford International Airport|Kent County International Airport]] were provided by [[North Central Airlines]] and [[Republic Airlines (1979–1986)|Republic Airlines]].<ref name=":0">{{Citation|last1=Price|first1=Jeffrey C.|title=Airport Maintenance Standards & Air Traffic Control & Air Operations|date=2016|work=Practical Airport Operations, Safety, and Emergency Management|pages=191–271|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-12-800515-6|last2=Forrest|first2=Jeffrey S.|doi=10.1016/b978-0-12-800515-6.00007-x}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Wisconsin airline service study|last=Wisconsin. Department of Transportation.|date=1977|publisher=Dept. of Transportation|oclc=5583895}}</ref> After declining ridership in the 1980s, commercial service ceased but the airport is available for private aircraft.<ref name=":0" /> The closest airport offering commercial transportation is [[Green Bay-Austin Straubel International Airport]] in Green Bay, about an hour away. ===Ferry=== Historically, a ferry named the Ann Arbor connected the twin city of Menominee, Michigan to Frankfort, Michigan via the Sturgeon Bay ship canal in the Door Peninsula, Wisconsin. There is currently no ferry service to Marinette or Menominee.
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