by garbear » July 26, 2015, 9:55 am
I don't know if it's the case anymore, but when I sailed the Presque Isle would unload into the ore, for lack of a better word, trough that extended the length of the dock at the Gary Works. I'm sure with the huletts long gone now it's strictly at the hopper, but on occasion they'd be unloading behind us when we were under the huletts. And I know they would go into the North Dock, South Works and do the same. There was at least one trip we had to lay inside the Calumet Harbor breakwall and wait for them to unload. I think at the North Dock it was sometimes a slower process because the bridge rigs would try to keep the trough clean, but if they couldn't keep up the PI would have to shift down the dock to where the trough was empty. There was no hopper at S. Chicago.
I don't know if it's the case anymore, but when I sailed the Presque Isle would unload into the ore, for lack of a better word, trough that extended the length of the dock at the Gary Works. I'm sure with the huletts long gone now it's strictly at the hopper, but on occasion they'd be unloading behind us when we were under the huletts. And I know they would go into the North Dock, South Works and do the same. There was at least one trip we had to lay inside the Calumet Harbor breakwall and wait for them to unload. I think at the North Dock it was sometimes a slower process because the bridge rigs would try to keep the trough clean, but if they couldn't keep up the PI would have to shift down the dock to where the trough was empty. There was no hopper at S. Chicago.