Can anyone identify this flatcar?

[NS3322]

Does anyone know the history behind this flatcar?
It is sitting just outside the True Value in Ontonagon, Michigan.
When I visited in 2016, I could not locate any reporting marks.

[James Sofonia]

I looks to me like it needs a trip to Traverse City Beacon!

[Super Chief]

I asked a gentleman in Syl's restaurant over breakfast the same question, he thought had something to do with the ill fated tug barge operation that the State forked a lot of money into that went belly up. The flat was some how used in the large building on the waterfront. I remember the tracks from the yard narrowing down to one crossing the street by the True Value and continuing inside that building.

[NS3322]

I asked a gentleman in Syl's restaurant over breakfast the same question, he thought had something to do with the ill fated tug barge operation that the State forked a lot of money into that went belly up. The flat was some how used in the large building on the waterfront. I remember the tracks from the yard narrowing down to one crossing the street by the True Value and continuing inside that building.

Syl's is a great place!
Not much I could find on the barge operation (everything is behind a paywall). Did it have something to do with Smurfit-Stone?
Funny that the flatcar was the only thing that survived from the operation.
Did you happen to figure out the heritage of the flatcar?

[CAT345C]

The state back in the 80s or 90s commissioned a ship builder in Ontonagon to build a new rug and barge car ferry to run out of Frankfort. Half way through the project was mixed and the tug and barge were sold to somebody else. I believe they ended up in Seattle. It was supposedly scrapped in the 2000s