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City tax records show that it is still owned by the Lakehead Pipeline Company, LTD. (Probably a subsidiary of Enbridge).

Green's Marine Directory of the Great Lakes, 1938 edition says the dock (Pittsburgh Coal Co at the time) had two McMyler "whirlies" with 75 foot booms and 2 ton clamshell buckets and one McMyler "whirley" with a 48 foot boom and 1.5 ton bucket. Overall unloading capacity was 1800...

As BigRiver said, it will be the Sequoia. However, the Sequoia might not get to the lakes until 2024, depending on how things go at the shipyard in Curtis Bay.

The McKeil barge Huron Spirit also has a similar system using end loaders to push bulk material to the self-unloader grates. However, being a deck barge, the end loaders and unloading grates are on the main deck, and not in a hold. And of course the barge often handles non-bulk cargos, like steel co...

Boatnerd's users spoke with their actions. For a variety of reasons, users did not like the Wordpress-based discussion board. Based on where they post, they appear to prefer to use this older phpBB format. From a moderator's viewpoint, the Wordpress discussion board would receive 100 or so spam mess...

The Ahnapee and Western Railway, which connected Sturgeon Bay to the national rail network stopped serving Sturgeon Bay in 1968. So if any steel does come by rail, it would have to use another mode from Green Bay or vicinity to the shipyard.

The Moran Iron Works facebook page had a few photos of them loading components on the barge at Roger City recently. One of their recent newsletters mentioned that they were fabricating components for a movable bridge in Virginia. But the components don't really look like bridge components, so I have...

Are you sure it delivered something? The photos I saw of it online coming up the Seaway sure looked like the barge was empty. And Moran Iron Works was hauling stuff to the port from Onaway in the past few days. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10166528383320398&set=pcb.10160428602378656

So if your item has a tracking number, it tells you the basics; where it’s last been scanned and it’s ultimate destination… but is there a way to determine which container your item ends up in along its travel stages or even which cargo ship? I’ve seen online that you can track cargo ships in real ...

In a related question, how come the DTE powerplant's dock in Monroe was never dredged to a full depth of 28+ feet? Its not just the dock area. Western Lake Erie is shallow so you have to go out roughly 10 miles to find 28 feet of water. The USACE project depth for Monroe 21 feet, a number that only...

How deep is the water where these wave buoys are located and how far from shore are they? Do all great lakes have them? Thank you in advance. I think the map below shows the location of most buoys on the Great Lakes that measure and report wave heights. If you zoom in at particular locations you ca...

When will Algoma no longer need taconite? Past articles stated that the two electric arc furnaces are expected to come online in 2024 with a transition period thereafter. Initially they were hoping for 70% of the production to be from the EAF's by 2026. However, I think that initial estimate for a ...

How can you mesure wave hights If you are wondering how buoys measure wave heights, they use electrical sensors called accelerometers. They measure the vertical acceleration of the buoy. And if you ever took a calculus class, you may recall that if you integrate acceleration once, you get velocity,...

The ATB Intregrity/G.L. Ostrander and the Alpena cement plant were shown for a couple of brief moments on the NBC Nightly News Tuesday Oct 18th but not for good reasons. Stock footage of various Lafarge facilities around the world was used to illustrate a news item about Lafarge pleading guilty to s...

They hit a seawall in the Calumet River in September 2020. What you saw were the repairs done in Toledo a few days later. USCG Incident Report: https://cgmix.uscg.mil/IIR/IIRSearchResults.aspx?ActID=ZTJ/7SGhS8g= Recent photo by Michael Hull: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10221031517474671&...

To Guest from UK and Mr Link....I think we talked about this before but what is your take on the insurance situation for the Blough....thanks guys Marine insurance is a topic of great mystery to me, so I'll be of no help explaining it. I do recall that 20 some years ago the railroad side of Canadia...

Loading gypsum for Port Colborne Hi Roger, Looking at an image of the area where the Mark W. Barker is docked, there's several silo structures at the dock where she's currently moored.but I don't see a pile of gypsum. Is the gypsum being loaded from the silos, or are they being trucked in and loade...

Tugs in Muskegon July 2022. Barbara Andrie and Rebecca Lynn plus Sarah Andrie, Colleen and Katie G. McAllister (not sure which is which).

Just confirming that the option to post photos on these boards is functional once again. Use the "Attachements" tab, and be sure to wait for the photo to completely load. The "Status" will turn into a check mark once the photo has been loaded. Photo is of the Mark Barker on July ...