In southern VT and NY there was a Rutland Car Ferry. I cant find very much info on this car ferry
Run down to your library and borrow their copy of The Rutland Road by Jim Shaughnessy - it is the resource on the Rutland. Unfortunately I don’t have a copy of my own.
My SPV atlas shows a possible Rutland ferry link out of Colchester Point to South Hero.
I didn’t find anything on a Lake Champlain ferry in a quick look through my copy. Hard to believe hardcover books were ten bucks in 1964! (This book is out again in a newer softcover edition, by the way.)
The route between Colchester Point and South Hero Island was actual railroad line, built on a fill.
Do you have any idea at all where either one of the end points was supposed to be? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of such a ferry, at least not in modern (in ferry terms) times.
(Come on, Nanaimo, we’re counting on you!)
The Ferry was in the Ticonderoga Area…There is a cable guided ferry there today but there was also a railroad car ferry that linked the Rutland with the D&H. The lake is very deep here at 700 feet which is deeper then Lake Ontario(And they say that Lake Champlain is not one of the Great Lakes)