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Unfortunately the route you want to take is not a very feasible one. While there is certainly an amount of cargo still moved on the New York State Canal System, it is primarily used for recreation, and the chances of a cargo moving from the Atlantic all the way to Lake Superior via that route is ...

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DCN

To me it looks like the cribbing the locomotive and tender are on is actually a stack of flat cars minus their trucks.  It also looks as if there are a bunch more stacked up on the dock.

DCN

Saturday evening (9-25-21), Algoma Conveyor is off the North Entry showing a destination of Hancock.  Looks like she is stopped out in the lake at the moment.  AIS past track doesn't seem to indicate a split load, at least not that I can see.

DCN

I believe the first of them, the Algoma Innovator, is inbound from the north end of the canal right now (Sunday morning 9-19-21).  I believe it delivered a partial load in Duluth before coming to Hancock.

 

DCN

I don't know if any fleet has taken a serious look into an all electric laker. I have often thought that the lakes would be a good place to pioneer such technology in a large vessel as even the longest runs are shorter than most ocean voyages and so the opportunity to dock and recharge batteries, or ...

As somebody who has been visiting Boatnerd since the oakland.edu days (and that's going back a bit) I can say that yes, this new version is going to take a little bit to get used to, but to be honest a "healthy" website that is "community oriented" like Boatnerd is you want to be dynamic, ever ...