A Story of Natural Iron Ore on the Great Lakes 

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SUPER memory!

Okay, now THAT is COOL

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Yep the dust washed right out. One thing I learned when I was out-stationed up on the iron rage is never take your white uniform shirts to the local laundry mat... they come out pink. The miner's work cloths are washed there and the ore dust is just trapped in the washers. I had to wear a worn uniform shirt for 4 trips before I got home to washed the ore out of my other shirts. They came out nice and white.

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I was based in HIB for 4 months. Had my bike there too. Did a lot of riding when the weather allowed. There are so many places out of the way to just "go" that sometimes you get the creepy feeling, "Maybe I shouldn't be here..."

You could have stopped at the Tiden mine in Ishpeming MI and toured it, also the working pocket dock in Marquette MI. Would have saved you 5 hrs of driving time. Copper mining in the Keweenaw peninsula is another rich history too. Calumet once had over 100 thousand residents. The Calumet opera house is still open.

@@stantaylor3350 I've already been to all those places. Wanted to add Hibbing to my list. Also spent time in Duluth and Superior watching ships.

Glad you enjoyed it... I was based in Hibbing when I flew for NWAirlink... not really a place or time I wanna go back to. Good people- just not my kind of place.

@authorwes LOL, yeah I understand that! I was born in Duluth & we lived just south of the Iron Range, so some sentimental historic interest. AND I agree after having been away for decades, no real interest in going back(long term anyway).

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My pleasure! I try not to gurgle.

My wife would kill me...

At some point they will start making them again.

@@johnstudd4245 we can only hope!

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Don't know for sure. You may want to go on the Boatnerd Facebook site and ask.

In the early days the steel mills were in central PA and the railroads connected them to the Lake Erie shore at Ohio ports. The coal was mined in south central states, but was needed in the upper lakes and the railroads connected at western Lake Erie ports- so that how the stage was set.

@@authorwes makes sense. There was a foundry in my town until the 90s where they used to make props and anchors. It was a huge building. Across the sound, Russell Brothers had their yard. There's a small peninsula made from slag ( well, probably 1000 ft long) and there's still large oak beams that were the slips that protrude into the depths.

@@authorwes Thanks for the great informative video. As a native of Erie, PA, I remember the ore carriers wintering in the middle of Presque Isle Bay in the 1960s-'70s. I also remember when Litton Industries built their facility in Erie to build the 1000' Stewart J. Cort and the barge portion of the 1000' barge/tug Presque Isle. (The tug was built elsewhere.) The former Litton dry dock is now the home of Donjon shipbuilding and repair. One small correction on your comment above. Pittsburgh, PA once a steelmaking giant is located in southwest Pennsylvania, not far from Ohio and West Virginia. There isn't much of anything of note in the middle of Pennsylvania with the exception of Penn State University in State College, and Altoona which was once a hub of locomotive repair activity for the Pennsylvania RR. Other than that the middle of the state is mostly forest, farms, and small towns. I am looking forward to the video about the Hullett unloaders.