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		News Photo Gallery August 31, 2009

 

Welland Canal - Eric Holmes
Tug Lucia and barge Caribbean downbound below Lock4	Another view	Stern view	Canadian Prospector upbound below Lock 2	Stern view
Duluth-Superior - Tom Caine
Cason J. Callaway arriving Duluth harbor	Firing up thruster engine	Callaway carries cargo of limestone for C. Reiss dock	Marinus Green at anchor off Duluth	Joseph L. Block at Murphy Fuel waiting to discharge limestone at CN
Edwin H. Gott loading taconite at CN Missabe	Callie M. picking up scow at Hallett 8	Fog lifts and reveals Duluth landmark antenna farm
Clelia II approaches Duluth piers outbound	Making turn for piers	Clelia II will return twice in September	Pilot Boat Sea Bear	Canadian Progress waits at Port Terminal for berth at SMET
American Century loading western coal at SMET	Joseph L. Block at CN Missabe	Block unloads limestone into the hopper	G-tug Kentucky fires up	Kentucky made up to Marinus Green
heading for Port Terminal
Recent Detroit Traffic - Mike Nicholls
Marinus Green at Morterm in Winsdor.	Beluga Efficiency loading coke at Nicholson's Ecorse.		Scrapping of the ex-rail barge Detroit at Dean Construction Yard in La Salle, ON.	Maumee downbound off Marine City, MI.
Sedna Desgagnes downbound off Marine City, Mi.
Sunday following the Whistler - Dave Bessant
Whistler passing Brockville in the morning, downbound.	Whistler stern view with dive boat	Whistler passing Maitland, appearing empty, sitting high in the water with her hatches open.	Entering the Port of Prescott and discovering Cuyahoga being loaded.	Just one of the loading devices
Whistler passing under the Prescott Ogdensburg International Bridge	Cuyahoga tied up and being loaded as Whistler head downstream behind her.	Two loading streams being watched by a crewman and the Cuyahoga?s unloading equipment above.	Distant view of Cuyahoga being loaded at the Port of Prescott with some nameless pile of green material	Whistler moving past Cardinal, having passed the remnants of the Galop canal system, used before the Seaway.
Whistler approaching Iroquois Locks, appearing about to tie up	Whistler changed direction and heads into the lock	Whistler Bow with some idea as to her size vs the lock worker	Whistler bridge close-up with crew	Tire marks (bumpers) on the side of Whistler
16 Whistler accommodations and stack and lifeboat	Whistler heading out of the locks at Iroquois	Whistler stern	Whistler maneuvering around the green buoy	Whistler got this far in the time it took to get a hot dog and coke at the stand
The wreck of the Conestoga at Cardinal, a wooden hulled propeller driven steam freighter which caught fire in 1922 along the Galop canal.	The plaque for the Conestoga, a popular dive spot	Cuyahoga as I head back to Brockville, still loading	Cuyahoga close up, two loaders per conveyor of gravel perhaps	Federal Danube downbound past the town of Prescott
Federal Danube in the distance behind the old ferry piers at Prescott	Federal Danube heading under the International bridge with the windmill, site of the Battle of the Windmill in 1838	Rt Hon Paul J Martin in the distance, viewed from the lighthouse at the Sandra Lawn Harbour, Prescott	Rt Hon Paul J Martin passing near Maitland at the Kemira site
	Tug Tony Mackay at Maitland, also downbound	Closeup
Brockville and Iroquois on a rainy Saturday morning - Dave Bessant
Eider upbound past Blockhouse Island			Beluga Efficiency passing under the Prescott Ogdensburg International Bridge, downbound	Vega Desgagnes approaching the Iroquois Locks
	Valves and Fire fighting nozzle	Life boat	Exiting the lock
Heading towards Cornwall	New Signage at the Iroquois Locks for the 50th Anniversary of the Seaway	Beluga Efficiency moving inch by inch to the Iroquois lock	The pennant of Freese Shipping, owners of Beluga Efficiency	Crew guiding Beluga Efficiency along the lock walls
		Heading to Cornwall and points east	The Iroquois Dam that maintains the level of lake Ontario; currently the pleasure boats pass right under the gates of the dam as there is no difference in the level of the water on either side of the dam.

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