High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pere Marquette Railway (reporting mark PM) was a railroad that operated in the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada. The railroad had trackage in the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and the Canadian province of Ontario. Its primary connections included Buffalo; Toledo; and Chicago. The company was named after Father Jacques Marquette S.J. (1637–1675), a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan`s first European settlement, Sault Ste. Marie.