Talk:William L. Mercereau

Inconsistencies in article compared to the train ferry article
Looking at Train ferry it mentions that An early train ferry was established as early as 1833 and The first modern train ferry was Leviathan, built in 1849. plus Although others had had similar ideas, it was Bouch who first put them into effect.

This article says Mercereau developed the technology of loading a complete railroad car full of freight directly onto ships as one unit. and ''in the 1890s, technology was introducing the idea of just loading the complete railroad freight car onto the ship instead of transferring its contents to ship holding tanks. The package steamships with bulk holding tanks had carried freight this way since 1882, but this antiquated technology became obsolete. The railroad car ferry then came about, and the first ones were wooden craft.''

Reference 3 has the title Idea Of Carferries Got Its Start Here in 1897 which, again doesn't match the Train ferry pages. The date that they refer to is 1897 which is when the first steel ferry was entered into service which is probably what they are referring to which makes me concerned about using it for this article. Gusfriend (talk) 09:38, 20 October 2022 (UTC)


 * In the article I wrote, He was also known as the 'father of the railroad on the water' because he brought to fruition the idea of loading the complete railroad car onto cross-lake ferries for transportation as a complete loaded freight car unit. using Reference 12. Reference 3 is used for Mercereau's biography information. I don't see an issue with either of these references.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 13:32, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

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