Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: duluth

CN's locked up the viewing tower at the parking lot overlooking Missabe's Duluth Docks. Boo. Hiss. Bah. Rats. And a long string of bad words.

Superior Harbor. Like most of the photos from this cruise, this one had some exposure issues; fixing those made things pretty grainy. I do like the composition, though.

Duluth-Superior Harbor, with a gorgeous sky above and Lake Superior in the distance. The Missabe (now CN) ore docks protrude a half-mile into the harbor in the foreground, and Midwest Energy's millions of tons of coal across the way. Shot from Duluth's Skyline Parkway, where (as usual) we were about to get lost. Not real sure how this got to be so grainy, but I rather like it anyway.

Rather young visitors to Duluth's Canal Park, watching us head out into Lake Superior's fog.... That's the Corps of Engineers building at the Ship Canal behind them.

Another Duluth-Superior photo, this one of the curvy high-level bridge that carries US-2 across the harbor. This bridge replaced a similarly-curvy bridge (great pix; go, look) which was much nearer water level. Dick Bong was a WWII fighter pilot, from Poplar, Wisconsin. Bong was credited with shooting down over 40 Japanese aircraft and was considered the United States Ace of Aces . He died in an aircraft testing incident in Burbank, California, on the same day as the Hiroshima bombing. Over the years I've taken several tours of this harbor . During one of those tours the guide made quite a point about the bridge--named after a Pacific War hero and crossing the world's greatest iron-shipping harbor--being built of Japanese steel. Ah, irony.

Duluth, Minnesota

Superior, Wisconsin. Looks peaceful, doesn't it?

Thought I'd play with Bibble's Andy plugin a little. This one's fairly conventional--imitating Tri-X printed on Agfa Multicontrast paper. Superior, Wisconsin.

With the Great Lakes ship American Integrity for a background. Duluth-Superior Harbor; Integrity was loading at Midwest Energy Terminal. Best LARGE , of course.

We spent a couple days in Duluth, last week. This photo taken from the Vista Queen .

A bunch of DMIR SD-9s and similar locomotives, all lined up at Proctor Yard (above Duluth) on an August day in 1990. Camera: Throwaway Kodak panoramic

Duluth Harbor Tour circa 1990. Now known as by Manitowoc; I showed you this ship as Earl W just a about a month back.

Meteor, long a museum and permanently parked at Barkers Island in Superior, seen from a Duluth-Superior Harbor Tour circa 1990. Scanned from a slide, likely taken with a Minolta point-n-shoot.

Lee A. Tregurtha's worn several names over her long career. For a few years in the '80s she belonged to Rouge Steel and bore the name of the owner of the Detroit Lions. She's seen here in the Duluth Ship Canal in 1988.

August of 1988, at the Duluth Ship Canal. This ship, known as Lee A. Tregurtha since 1989, has had a long, complicated, and delightful career; see the Boatnerd site's writeup for a summary. This is my favorite ship on the Lakes. The Rouge Steel fleet had a terrific paint scheme; Tregurtha's current (Interlake/Lakes Shipping fleet) paint job looks comparatively dowdy.

Museum ship in Duluth, Minnesota; photo taken in August of 1988. Posting this today largely because this ship is not the Irvin.

Been reading about the history of the Duluth-Superior harbor for the past few days, which sent me looking for photos. This one dates from 1990 and shows tug Essayons at, I think, the Bunge Dock on Duluth's Rice Point. I shot it from the harbor tour boat with a cheap point-&-shoot camera. Essayons was originally Corps of Engineers tug, as her name suggests (that name's the Corps' slogan, which can be translated "Let us try.") The vessel was later sold to Zenith Dredge, and later yet to a private owner who planned to convert her into a waterborne B&B. Since I've not been able to find dates for those transactions, I'm not sure who owned her when the photo was taken. In the late 70s she was converted from steam to diesel power. Her old powerplant is on display at the Duluth Marine Museum, the installation of which is discussed here . A couple years ago she sank in this slip at the age of 101 years. This was her second sinking, I'm told, and the third major mishap of her career. When we visited Duluth in 2009 all that was visible was the top of her cabin and most of the stack .

Great Lakes Towing's Duluth-based fleet. One of many they've stashed at strategic points around the Great Lakes.