Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: Harbor

Grand Marais, Minnesota; August of 2006.

And a Star Line boat in the background. Photo taken 6/18/2006 from the St Ignace boardwalk.

At her home port, the Great Lakes Maritime Academy in Traverse City. Photo taken 9/25/2006.

The remnant of Manistique's old railroad ferry dock gives a bit of historical context to some brand-new condominiums. I'm no fan of waterfront condos; in general, they ruin historic waterfronts. But that doesn't mean I won't buy one when I retire. The railroad ferry mostly connected the Manistique and Lake Superior Railway with the Ann Arbor in Elberta , but for a time it also had a Pere Marquette connection at Northport . The railroad failed in 1968. As recently as 1992, the ferry dock was pretty much intact .

Duluth harbor, from the pilot house of former US Steel Great Lakes Fleet flagship William A. Irvin , in August of 1988 (I think.) The Irvin was retired in the late 1970s, and has been a museum in Duluth's harbor for the past two decades. That's the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge , of course, near the center of the photo. The ferry sharing the channel with the the Irvin is Wenonah . Wenonah's now one of the boats ferrying visitors from Grand Portage to Isle Royale, but I don't know what she was doing in 1988.

At Frankfort (foreground) and Elberta, Michigan, in 1991. The ship had recently been appointed a National Historic Landmark. City of Milwaukee was built in 1930 for the Grand Trunk Railway, and ended her career in 1981 when the State closed down the Ann Arbor Railroad ferry operation. She sat there in the Frankfort harbor for nearly two decades, then moved to Manistee. She's functioning now as a museum . The alert reader will notice that the two sites I've linked to show slightly different dates for "built" and "retired." Such is life, I guess.