Publisher Dean K. Fick of Montevallo Historical Press did a first-rate job on the reissue, made even more challenging by a major relocation, job change, and recent marriage. That's the reason for the delay in the previously announced release of the book. ...This highly anticipated new version of The Great Lakes Car Ferries will be well-received, and will undoubtedly introduce a new generation of enthusiasts to what was a remarkable era in North American railroad and maritime history. --Arthur Chavez, car ferry historian and marine columnist for the Pere Marquette Historical Society; author of the pictorial history, S.S. Badger: The Lake Michigan Car Ferry, and the upcoming S.S. City of Midland 41, both part of Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series. Read the complete review.

With this utilitarian principle in mind, shipbuilders around the Great Lakes and elsewhere built an amazing variety of vessels to get the job done quickly, efficiently, and safely.

George W. Hilton's The Great Lakes Car Ferries tells the story of these boats and of the hardworking, heroic men who day after day, year after year, battled mechanical problems, ice, and bad weather to get the cars safely across the water.