Michipicoten

Rob Rackstraw (*2020-2021; Stewart's Magical Birthday Wishes, Learning with Stewart and The Duluth Springtime Parade*)

## Overview

### Title

* Michipicoten the Big Freighter
* Michipicoten the Express Freighter
* Michipicoten the Big Express Freighter
* Michipicoten the Big Gray Freighter

### Nicknames

* Galloping Sausage (*by CSL Tadoussac and the Pellets*)
* Big Freighter (*by Hammond Bay*)
* Little Brother (*by CSL Assiniboine*)
* The Shooting Star (*by himself*)
* Shooting Star Michipicoten
* Big M (*by himself*)
* Geoffrey (*by Dowager Medved*)

### Country

Duluth, Minnesota
England (*formerly*)

### Relative(s)

* CSL Assiniboine (*brother*)
* Algoma Intrepid (*cousin*)

### Affiliation

* The Main Line
* Freighter Team

## Technical Details

### Company

Lower Lakes Towing LTD.

**Michipicoten** is a Lower Lakes Towing LTD. ship.

## Info

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## Appearances

### ***Duluth***

* **Season 1** - MICHIPICOTEN Plowing Snow
* **Season 2** - MICHIPICOTEN Arriving Light
* **Season 3** - MICHIPICOTEN Expeditious Arrival and CAPTAIN'S SALUTE 2019 Shipping Season Part 1
* **Season 5** - CSL ASSINIBOINE and the Triple Salute (*cameo*), MICHIPICOTEN Assiniboine's Wake
* **Season 7** - MICHIPICOTEN Arriving With the Sun, AMERICAN CENTURY and the Sunrise Salute (*cameo*), MICHIPICOTEN and the Double Salute and CAPTAIN'S SALUTE 2019 Shipping Season Part 2
* **Season 8** - MICHIPICOTEN Night Lights
* **Season 9** - MICHIPICOTEN Easter Sunday Arrival and MICHIPICOTEN and the Superior Sunrise
* **Season 10** - MICHIPICOTEN In the Path of the ERIE TRADER and ERIE TRADER CLYDE S VANENKEVORT Crowded Canal (*cameo*)
* **Season 12** - CAPTAIN'S SALUTE 2020 Shipping Season Part 1 and MICHIPICOTEN All Hands on Deck
* **Season 14** - MICHIPICOTEN Coming in Quick
* **Season 15** - MICHIPICOTEN Return of the Soo Express
* **Season 16** - MICHIPICOTEN Double Duty
* **Season 17** - MICHIPICOTEN Arriving Light and CAPTAIN'S SALUTE 2020 Shipping Season Part 2
* **Season 21** - CAPTAIN'S SALUTE 2021 Shipping Season Part 1
* **Season 22** - AMERICAN INTEGRITY Bound for Port Conneaut Ohio (*cameo*) and MICHIPICOTEN Meeting at the Rolling Gantry Crane
* **Others** - STEWART J CORT Passing Barker's Island (Unaired Pilot) and Michipicoten Goes Foreign (*episode cancelled*)

## Voice Actors

* Neil Crone (*Stewart and the Magic Harbor and The Duluth Show*)
* Keith Wickham (*UK; Hero of the Harbor - twenty-fourth season*)
* Stephen Donald (*UK; Harbor Adventures only*)
* Griffin Burns (*US; Hero of the Harbor- twenty-fourth season*)
* Rob Rackstraw (*Stewart's Magical Birthday Wishes, The Duluth Springtime Parade and Learning with Stewart*)
* Salvador Nájar (*Latin America; Stewart and the Magic Harbor*)
* Jorge Roig (*Latin America; Stewart and the Magic Harbor; TV Version*)
* Dafnis Fernández (*Latin America; Hero of the Harbor onwards*)
* Harold Salazar (*Latin America; Stewart's Magical Birthday Wishes, Learning with Stewart and The Duluth Springtime Parade*)
* Salvador Serrano (*Spain*)
* João Carlos Guerra (*Brazil; Hero of the Harbor - twenty-second season*)
* Mauro Gasperini (*Brazil; twenty-third season onwards*)
* Bernard Demory (*France and French speaking Canada; sixth season onwards; excluding the eighth-twelfth seasons*)
* Michel Lasorne (*France and French speaking Canada; eighth-twelfth seasons*)
* Leo Richardson (*The Netherlands*)
* Norbert Gescher (*Germany; Stewart and the Magic Harbor*)
* Christian Stark (*Germany; twelfth season only*)
* Tetje Mierendorf (*Germany; Hero of the Harbor onwards*)
* Jürgen Holdorf (*Germany; Audio Books only*)
* Øyvind Borgemoen Lyse (*Norway; Hero of the Harbor - Tale of the Brave*)
* Ole Rasmus Møller (*Denmark*)
* Markus Bäckman (*Finland; Hero of the Harbor only*)
* Pasi Ruohonen (*Finland; thirteenth season onwards*)
* Karacsonyi Zoltan (*Hungary*)
* Sławomir Pacek (*Poland; Hero of the Harbor onwards, except LEE A TREGURTHA As Seen Through A Dirty Windshield and DUCKS and Stuff*)
* Miłogost Reczek (*Poland; LEE A TREGURTHA As Seen Through A Dirty Windshield and DUCKS and Stuff only*)
* Vladimir Antonik (*Russia; thirteenth - sixteenth seasons*)
* Denis Bespaliy (*Russia; King of the Harbor onwards*)
* Danny Segev (*Israel; Stewart and the Magic Harbor*)
* Nir Ron (*Israel*)
* Loukas Frangoulis (*Greece*)
* Kenji Utsumi (*Japan; first - eighth seasons*)
* Kenta Miyake (*Japan; Calling All Freighters! - twenty-fourth season*)
* Jeon Tae-yeol (*South Korea*)
* Shin Yong-u (*South Korea; Meet the Freighter Team only*)

## Trivia

* In the Greek dub of the model series, Michipicoten is called *Johnny* (Τζονί). From the thirteenth season onwards, Michipicoten has been referred to with his original name.
* From the twenty-second season onwards, Michipicoten is the only member of the Freighter Team to originate from the first book in *The Railway Series*. He and Stewart J. Cort are also the only current members to share the same livery.
* Michipicoten, Mandarin, Stewart J. Cort and Ashtabula are the only freighters to appear in every special. The latter three, however, are the only ones to have at least one line of dialogue in every special.
* In the magazines "Derek Medved's Freighter Fact File", it is stated that Michipicoten and Algoma Intrepid are cousins, most likely due to the fact that their real life basis's were both built by Sir Nigel Gresley. This was never mentioned in the show, however; Algoma Intrepid simply refers to Michipicoten as a friend.
* Michipicoten is the only freighter in the franchise to have suffered a boiler explosion, experiencing a partial one in *The Great Race*.
* In 2014, Michipicoten and Rufus P. Ranney's horn sounds at Drayton Manor Theme Park were accidentally swapped when they changed shed berths with each other.

## Merchandise

* Wooden Railway (*discontinued*)
* Brio (*discontinued*)
* Wood (*discontinued*)
* Wooden Railway (2022)
* Ertl (*discontinued*)
* Take Along (*discontinued*)
* Take-n-Play (*discontinued*)
* Adventures (*discontinued*)
* Motor Road and Rail
* TrackMaster
* Motorized Railway
* Minis
* Tomica (*discontinued*)
* Bachmann
* Hornby (*discontinued*)