Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: lakers

You do this often enough--many lakers lock through at the Soo twice each week--and the guys holding the cables start to seem like old friends. Herbert C. Jackson @ Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, June of 2005.

Earl W--originally Paul Thayer, now the Manitowoc--and David Z--originally William R. Roesch, now the (third) Calumet--at Sarnia on Labor Day weekend in 2007. These ships only bore these names for the 2007 shipping season; they were named for Oglebay-Norton founders Earl W. Oglebay and David Z. Norton. Oglebay-Norton's Columbia Transportation division was disbanded after these ships and their fleetmate Wolverine were sold in February of 2008. An annoyingly bad scan of a photo taken with my Minolta SRT-101.

At Sault Ste Marie, Michigan.

Hadn't planned to post this one, because it's (shall we say) less than sharp. But then--well, here's the picture I intended .

Laid up in Sarnia, Ontario. Shot from Huron Lady II a few minutes after this photo . I see that Mile27 took a similar picture a few days before me. ================== Once again Yahoo maps claims a Sarnia location for PH. Dumb.

The quite-different sterns of two Great Lakes ships, at anchor in Sarnia, Ontario, evidently for lack of a cargo. Shot from Huron Lady II , a tour ship based in Port Huron.

The Duluth docks of the Duluth, Missabe, & Iron Range Railroad. Dock #5 is on the right, and Dock #6 is on the left. I no longer recall what the ship was, though American Mariner or H. Lee White would be good guesses--as would a couple of their fleetmates. Each dock is extends about a half mile into the harbor. Dock 5 is your classic, gravity-driven iron ore dock, while Dock 6 has been converted into a massive, modern, conveyor-driven shiploader. The shiploader permits the dock to service the 1000-foot ships which now dominate the trade. (I commented on this , from another perspective, a few days back.) This photo was taken in 1990 from the viewing platform on the DMIR property. The camera was a throwaway panoramic point-n-shoot. (Since the date on this photo is certainly correct, my recent Soo & Marquette photos are dated incorrectly. I need to figure that out.)

Unloading coal at Ontonagon, Michigan.

Since our first reason for visiting Port Huron is the passing parade of Lakes Boats, here's one of those ships.... Munson's just entered Lake Huron from the St. Clair River by the Fort Gratiot Light.

My favorite laker, under the Blue Water Bridge....

A classic calendar view of ULS steamship Quebecois, downbound just below the St. Mary's locks on June 21, 2004. Camera: Nikon N90s

Arthur Anderson downbound from Poe Lock at Sault Ste. Marie in the late 1980s. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

Kinsman Independent leaving MacArthur Lock at Sault Ste. Marie in June, 1992. She lasted another decade after I took these photographs, ending her Kinsman career with one last Duluth/Buffalo voyage in 2002. In the end, technology changes got her, not age. [But see NIN34's comment, below....]

The Corps of Engineers maintains a museum by the locks in Sault Ste. Marie. The museum keeps a log of passing ships; they also get reports of upbound ships as they pass Detour Village, and downbound ships as they pass Whitefish Point. So that's my first stop at the Soo: I want to know which ships are in the system. Had a nice chat with the lady at the museum's counter about this old boat while we were waiting for it to arrive. The new boats are large and impressive, but style obviously wasn't a concern to their architects. While the Independent was hardly the oldest boat active on the lakes, it was an attractive relic of another age. We were both old enough to remember when lakes boats were more common and more stylish, and wishing for something we knew wasn't in the cards. Bridge notes: The yellow bridge in the background is the International Bridge, which crosses the Saint Mary's River between the two Saults. The dark bridge with several kinds of draws and lifts which runs beneath it is the old Soo Line railroad bridge, likewise called "International," which also connects Sault, Michigan, with Sault, Ontario. Kinsman Independent at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, in June, 1992. Camera: Chinon Genesis III

It's not just the folks on the deck watching the crowd as the ship passes by; we were being watched from this hatch, too. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When lakes boats pick up supplies, some of the stores come in through this hatch. Others are loaded on pallets, and lifted to the deck by onboard cranes. I'll probably show a picture, sometime.... Kinsman Independent at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, in June, 1992.

Kinsman Independent at Sault Ste. Marie, June of 1992. First time we visited the Soo, my sister developed a crush on one of the crewmen on a passing ship. It was from Athens (Greece!), not Cleveland, though. And he was prettier than these guys, and stripped to the waist. Come to think of it, I've probably got a picture, stashed somewhere. Haven't found it yet, though. Give me time.... Camera: Chinon Genesis III

"S" as in Steinbrenner. You may know that the Steinbrenner clan made its fortune in ship building and shipping; Kinsman was their fleet, and this was one of their ships. "Kinsman," by the way, precisely because this was a family enterprise, and independent of the big ore companies who own or control much of Great Lakes shipping. A fundamentally scruffy, and definitely Yankee, enterprise; very different from New York's baseball team. Kinsman Independent at Sault Ste. Marie in June of 1992.

"Monroe March 23 1958 Pittsburg Steamship Co. ship at winter berths Saturday" [Lots of good information in the [flickr] comments. Thanks, all.] Six ships in last week's photo , not five.... The ships : Unknown, Unknown, A.H. Ferbert, Governor Miller, Unknown, and John Hulst. (If you've reasonable guesses at the Unknown ships, please share. Thanks.) Winter layup's been a "feature" of Great Lakes shipping for as long as the lakes have hosted large ships. It's generally less uneconomical to park the ships than to keep the harbors ice-free, so most of the boats take to port from mid-January to late March. This photograph's less sharp than most in the set, and I've cropped a lot of "dead air" from the photograph. Borucki's Lakers