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- July 11, 2022, 3:27 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Engineers and boiler operators
- Replies: 4
- Views: 854
Re: Engineers and boiler operators
Can't answer that question. But the State of Michigan seems to have three job categories that are constantly being advertised: 1) elevator inspectors 2) traffic signal electricians (They want a licensed electrician with a commercial drivers license willing to be on call 24/7) 3) boiler inspectors (w...
- June 24, 2022, 3:46 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Farewell Diamond Jack
- Replies: 2
- Views: 755
Re: Farewell Diamond Jack
That would be J and K Steamboat Company of Grand Ledge. https://www.michiganprincess.com/Our-Boats They currently have three riverboats in service: the Michigan Princess on the Grand River in Lansing, the Grand Princess based out of Grand Ledge (but truck-able to other inland water locations) and th...
- May 11, 2022, 9:57 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: ship recycling in Port Colborne
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1021
Re: ship recycling in Port Colborne
Of course I can't seem to find any photos right now, but in the past have seen photos of several large winches at the yard. Probably salvaged towing winches from tugs. The lines are often run through multiple blocks to increase their pulling power, and they are tied to ground anchors behind the winc...
- April 25, 2022, 12:43 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: m.s chi cheemaun
- Replies: 1
- Views: 422
Re: m.s chi cheemaun
This article posted today states that they still hope to meet that schedule: https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/ ... ay-5295949
- April 20, 2022, 4:06 am
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: ID of car ferries?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 588
ID of car ferries?
I ran across this unidentified photo in the online digital collections of the Holland (Michigan) museum. It shows to railroad car ferries and I'm almost certain it was taken in Windsor, Ontario. The layout of the tracks and adjacent street make me think it is either the Canadian Pacific or Michigan ...
- April 20, 2022, 3:50 am
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: End of Port Reports
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1019
Re: End of Port Reports
Denny, Just in case you haven't seen the good news, another volunteer stepped in to continue the port reports. For now at least.
- April 18, 2022, 1:44 am
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: today in great lakes history
- Replies: 1
- Views: 698
Re: today in great lakes history
To my knowledge DeTour never had a railroad, common carrier or otherwise. James Hannum's book In the Pines - Volume III (An atlas of logging railroads in the UP) shows the closest logging railroad networks out one that worked out of Raber and one on the east end of Drummond Island. And of course the...
- April 7, 2022, 7:18 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Ojibway
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3398
Re: Ojibway
McKeil has built up a pretty substantial fleet in the past few years. Have they taken away a significant amount of grain tonnage from LLT? McKeil ships are frequently in Thunder Bay, but I haven't been paying attention to what they are hauling and their destinations.
- April 5, 2022, 6:07 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Ojibway
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3398
Re: Ojibway
It could be the Michipicoten, which has seen a fair amount of deviation from her regular Soo Express run in recent seasons due to the Algoma Steel contract and demand being a little different. And this haul (as well as the demand for coal at the Soo) is likely to go away entirely once Algoma Steel ...
- April 4, 2022, 9:01 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Mark Barker unloading system.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1868
Re: Mark Barker unloading system.
I believe McKeil's barge Huron Spirit has a similar, if less robust system that dates back to its days hauling salt from Mexico to San Diego. One trip it might be carrying a bulk commodity to be unloaded via the boom, the next steel coils stored on the flat deck. https://youtu.be/SWquX8kCzS8?t=130
- April 1, 2022, 10:22 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Alpena to Whitefish terminal
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1327
Alpena to Whitefish terminal
Per AIS, it looks like the Alpena left Alpena tonight with a destination showing as Whitefish, which is likely their Whitefish terminal near Little Current. Looks like Bristol Bay spent the day breaking ice from Georgian Bay to the terminal. Ice charts still show fairly substantial ice coverage in t...
- March 29, 2022, 7:45 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: manistee tow
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1727
Re: manistee tow
I know nothing about such things, but towing a big ship with a little tugboat like that looks pretty sketchy. How do you control a huge ship like that in the wind and ice and currents without you and your tugboat ending up somehow crushed like a grape? The Beverly MI is hardly a small tug. If I'm n...
- March 27, 2022, 5:19 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Badger over-nighter ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1233
Re: Badger over-nighter ?
Their schedule shows that they will be doing nighttime sailings from June 10 to Sept 5 this year. But during that time frame most rooms are booked by the general public and would not be available for a group function. The Boatnerd Badger gatherings have in the past been done outside of that window, ...
- March 27, 2022, 12:49 am
- Forum: Model Building
- Topic: Cliffs Victory Blueprints
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3964
Re: Cliffs Victory Blueprints
I just saw this thread (Its now March). I was told several months ago (on a Facebook page) that the assets of Bearco Marine are still around. The current owner had to retire (which lead to closure) and is trying to sell the company. Ideally to someone who would take it over and continue the product ...
- March 19, 2022, 2:29 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: U.S. Passenger Vessel Services Act
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1908
Re: U.S. Passenger Vessel Services Act
The answer to your question is in the PVSA FAQs you cite. They are not breaking the law. The act specifically says cannot transport passengers between US ports. If a voyage begins and ends in the same port then they have not transported passengers from one US port to another. Yes, if a passenger di...
- March 14, 2022, 2:20 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: U.S. Passenger Vessel Services Act
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1908
Re: U.S. Passenger Vessel Services Act
Both vessels were built by Atlantic Marine Corporation at Jacksonville and are now part of the merger of American Queen Steamboat Company and Victory Cruise Lines. They were renamed last December. Both are eligible for reflagging to American registry under the Jones Act, so that is another possibil...
- March 14, 2022, 1:37 am
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: U.S. Passenger Vessel Services Act
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1908
U.S. Passenger Vessel Services Act
American Queen Voyages is advertising two 16 day round-trip cruises this June out of Chicago. The scheduled vessel is the Ocean Navigator (former Victory II). https://www.victorycruiselines.com/cruises/lakeside-treasures/ Considering that the vessel is foreign flagged (Bahamas), I'm curious as to ho...
- March 12, 2022, 10:28 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Harvest Spirit heading to the Soo
- Replies: 3
- Views: 943
Re: Harvest Spirit heading to the Soo
Strictly a guess on my part: perhaps it is moving steel coils. Per archived AIS observations, it shifted docks in Windsor (ADM to Morterm) on March 4th, then left for Nanticoke in March 6th. Spent several days in Nanticoke then arrived at Monroe on March 10th or 11th. Now apparently headed to the So...
- March 9, 2022, 2:41 am
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: Canadian National palns sale f Great Lakes fleett.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5105
Re: Canadian National palns sale f Great Lakes fleett.
A footer could not deliver to Dofasco in Hamilton, but they do currently deliver to Stelco in Nanticoke and there's no reason a Canadian-flag ship couldn't do that same route. As far as Algoma Steel in the Soo, the Indiana Harbor made a delivery there last year and I believe carried only a partial ...
- March 1, 2022, 4:01 pm
- Forum: Information Search
- Topic: uss_kobe in lorain. ohio
- Replies: 1
- Views: 698
Re: uss_kobe in lorain. ohio
Good question. The best I can tell from online sources is that everything is still idled. The US Steel/Kobe partnership ended in 1999 and the mill was split into two entities, with US Steel retaining the pipe mill and Republic Steel gaining the blast furnaces and bar mill. In 2013 Republic put a new...