The Incredible Story: The World's Farthest Inland Port - 2300+ Miles! 

I love Duluth. I moved here from California five years ago with little but the shirt on my back and a guitar in hand. Though I was far from prepared for the winter to come (having been a southerner then Californian my whole life) the people of Duluth (and Superior) embraced me and gave me a foundation in this beautiful area. Everyday I wake up and thank my lucky stars that I found this place. Yes, even when it's 30 below!

Born and raised in Hibbing…it was always a big trip to go to Duluth when I was a kid

Here's my favorite story about Duluth. My wife was a teaching assistant in art history at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. The professor would talk about a work of art and then tell which museum it was in. One day a student came to see my wife, wholly exasperated. She said, "The professor keeps saying these works of art are in Duluth. I'm from Duluth, and I know they aren't there." And my wife had to explain that the professor had been saying "the Louvre."

Great historical story about Duluth! You guys are the best!

Always doing a great job exploring , educating, and entertaining. Thank you both.

I’m sitting on my Porch in Sandusky Oh. Enjoying this episode as I have your others. Jay Cooke, best known as “The Financier of The Civil War”, born here, was also a major player in the early development of Duluth. He was the first to build a grain elevator there expecting that to bolster his investment in the rail line you mentioned. He, along with others went bust in the 1873 panic. I used to go to Duluth to see what I called the hidden industry. My son worked on the “Lakers” in an industry I worked in. I unloaded both The Anderson & The Fitzs in the summer of 1975. If you’re fascinated by “ the hidden industry “ you should go to Duluth & watch the boats roll in off the big lake! Each visit to Duluth drew me back. It’s a wonderful little town. As I like to say, they don’t call these lakes great or nothing! Good stuff Vikings. Keep it up!

Was not born there, moved to Duluth (with parents of course) when I was six. Moved to Minneapolis for steadier work when I was 28. So I consider myself a Native of Duluth. Worked at Fraser Shipyards for two years 1974 - 1976. You showed a brief view of what used to be Barko Hydraulics, also worked there from September 1973 to May 1974.

America s other Coast The great Lakes. Thanks great job

Sorry about the camera mishap, but a good video none the less. Most people in the US have no idea that the majority of our iron/steel making gets its ore from Minnesota. The iron mining was pivotal through two world wars and the industrial revolution, and most of that ore came through Duluth Superior, the Twin Ports. I don’t get up to Duluth as often as I’d like to, it’s a great place to visit. The powers that be are working on reestablishing daily passenger rail from The Twin Cities to Duluth, I’d go up there more often if this service was available now.

Thunder Bay resident here, Duluths sister city in Canada. Ive been to Duluth more times than i care to count because its only 3.5 hours away? I have also been to 38 states and I actually still look forward to Duluth than any other destination in Canada or the US. In the summer it is in my mind the nicest place to be. The lake is a natural air conditioner and there are so many more things to do and see than in Tbay. Its like being on a freshwater ocean and the hotels along the waterfront are the place to be.

Thank you for this wonderful history lesson! This was one of my favorite places to go during the summer.

Visit Duluth often. Have not heard a few of these stories. Thank you for taking us along.

Excellent video! As a driver I have been to Duluth AND Superior more times than I'd like to admit.... One time about 10 years ago I left the Twin Cities to deal with the Enbridge tank farm in Superior. It was 90 degrees and humid when I left the cities. In Superior it was foggy and about 50 degrees!! Damned glad to wear a Nomex set of coveralls that day!!

Duluth would be my favorite goal. I like to watch videos of ships passing the Duluth Canal. Some of which have appeared in my vicinity some weeks later. The canal is an ideal location, and even its NE direction is adding to this. There are still two big old steel bridges with gondolas here, one across the Kiel Canal and another one across our river, some miles away from home. Both are still in use, but of course there are bridges and a tunnel meanwhile that actually made them obsolete. A lift bridge with a horn, giving salute to passing ships, seems to be unique to Duluth, though.

You do a great job with your videos. I always look forward to them.

"Let's go up *this* river.", Restless Vikings a thousand years ago.

Great recovery from the “time lapse” miscue. Your subject matter and delivery are exceptional. Explore on my friends.

Nice job again, even with the video issue. Chuck and Poppins, you do great service for us all. We live in florida full-time now, and we're not able to travel back to the Great Lakes very often, so your programs are much appreciated.

Duluth is on my bucket list for sure, looks amazing especially during summer. Gotta see those 1,000 footers coming through too.

As often happens, I learned something interesting from your video! I have been to Duluth/Superior a few times. usually a night stop before a trip up the Northshore (which I highly recommend). I did not know that was a man-made canal like Rock Cut SE of SSM. Duluth has a great transportation museum and Superior has the last surviving whaleback freighter (another great thing to visit while there).

It's great learning something new. Thanks for sharing this history.

Always interesting, you guys! 👍

I always learn something new, Thanks. Keep them coming ,,,,Pete

Always take a warm jacket with you to Duluth even in the summer.

For us Minnesotans, Duluth is our little mini getaway. Love visiting a a few times a year. Once in the summer when it's warm, once in the fall to see the colors, and then in the winter to go to snowboarding on Spirit Mountain.

This guy has a good voice

I’m coming home now from our adventure, be home tonight. Yours has an advantage in that your knees aren’t killing you. Well done!

Was there about 4 years ago. Enjoyed watching the ships come and go.

Great video even with the hiccup. Just read an article about Allan Williams and his contribution to our highway system and roadside rest areas. And guess who was quoted? Chuck from the restless Viking! I was like, “hey, I know that guys work!”. Thanks for taking us along on your adventures Chuck and Poppins!

Great video. Yes, the best grade iron ore on the Iron Range pretty much ran out, but they found a way to process low grade ore into pellets called taconite, which is being shipped today in large quantities to the steel mills further east.

Great video…I’m from Sault Ste Marie…I love to go down to the park at the end of my street and watch the boats sail past

Recent new subscriber. I Really enjoy your content and video quality. I learn from your work. I have been to many places you two videography. Keep up the great work. Boe

Thanks for the insight and history on this area, the canal, and the bridge. The special master salute by the Anderson in remembrance of the Fitzgerald each anniversary was especially interesting and notable.

Visited there last August. What a really neat place. Beautiful country.

Fascinating! I've passed through once before, but I feel I should definitely go back to explore Duluth. Great bumping into you tonight, Chuck. Keep up the great work guys!

I drive through Duluth everytime I head off on a Restless Viking inspired trip to the U.P. Thank you... Greetings from Breezy Point Mn

Great video guys, enjoyed it and learned a lot. Take care !!

Great video! The part about the horns was super interesting.

I enjoy your history lessons. Greetings from Holland MI.

I've always fancied hopping across the Pond to visit the lakes region and northern USA.

DRV & Poppins have done it again 😎 Chuck is actually a Duluthian? 😬 Keep on keepin on!🤠

Great video even with the technical difficulties. Keep making them.

Love Duluth! Being a Minnesotan is great. Such much to see!!

Wow, guys, I can't believe how much new-to-me Duluth info you packed into this episode! (And I have been there for business and pleasure many dozens of times!) Surprised you didn't mention the Viking ship or do a stand-upper there! Really fun video, thanks! 😎✌️

Wow, from Ohio to Duluth, you and Poppins get around, lol. Love the channel guys. Can't wait for the next one. My father-in-law lived in Bessemer and it was a long way from Montgomery to there. Stay safe

Nice production , thanks❤

Thanks a bunch for your video! I learn something new every time from your channel. I looked up Duluth, MN. American is a beautiful country. Keep up the good work!

Interesting stuff! Can still learn something everyday. Good job with this.

Whoa ! 😱 i never thought of THAT ... i know Little Girl Pt is the furthest spot in Michigan - - - but the West End of the Great Lakes ? ❣️👍 'think I'll go up the Keweenaw & visit the northern most point of US 41 🚗💨

I think the change of setting at 5 min actually improves the video. It makes a nice change and gives a chance to show more old photos.

Thanks for the Duluth history lesson Chuck didn't know you lived there I'm gonna be there tonight for the next 3 days any suggestions on things to do/see? Thanks for all your work with Poppins very informative fun to watch🤔😉👌

Another Great one. Thank you

LOVE your history lessons.

That place is on my bucket list of places to explore

We recently visited Duluth Harbor and the surrounding area. It was the trip of a lifetime.

Hometown is across the water from Duluth. Videos like this reaffirm how lucky we are to live in a place like Duluth.

That is interesting. In 2009 AD I took my father-in-law to see the entry of the Erie Canal near Albany,

Amazingly done!

I knew a lady who came from Duluth. She got bit by a dog with a rabid tooth. She went to her grave just a little too soon. Flew away howling on the yellow moon. Sad story. Miss her

interesting history, well done peeps!

Nice. Thanks for the history. I hope to get up to Duluth for a visit after I retire… or maybe before! It looks like a really relaxing place to live. 🤗🥰🙌👍

As a native of Duluth, thanks for making a great video of this!

WELL DONE ! I WAS INTERESTED ALL THE WAY THROUGHT WATCHING THE VIDEO !

Love Duluth!

Olson here. My father‘s great uncle was a ship captain on the Great Lakes lived up in Lake superior somewhere there’s a little Viking and all of us.

Fantastic video, I live 30 minutes north of the St Lawerence river in Ontario, while golfing at Iroquois Golf club, the course activities stop for a few seconds every time a laker goes past, we usually see about 2 upstream and 2 downstream in 18 holes. Duluth port is an amazing fact. Love to see it sometime, watched livestreams from Duluth. Thanks for sharing.

"Marshall Alworth" also known for constructing the Alworth Building in duluth, developing massive real-estate holdings in and around the city of duluth and developing the iron mining industry on minnesotas iron range and whose family built the Marshall Alworth Planetarium at the University of Minnesota and established the Marshal Alworth scholarship fund in his memory.

thanks for the interesting of history especially about the Boeing family/corporation and the sister ship to the Edmund Fitzgerald (fair winds and smooth seas mates).

Found your link on Lowell First Look and I love your channel! I grew up in Lowell and now I live in Midland. Just love the channel!

I enjoyed my trip to the area in 2017. There is a nice rail museum not far from the canal.

Much Love to you two. My favorite channel!

Grew up in Duluth. My mom was a waitress for Joe Huey's cafe We were a struggling family with 8 children, and Joe made sure his cooks made extra soup so my Mom could bring what wasn't sold home to us. Left home at 16, and have been back 4 times, the last time was 1983.

Wow, awesome video! I just subscribed based on this video alone- such interesting subject matter, beautifully done.

great video! I love the Great Lakes and wish I could live/spend more time there (Im from the Deep South) The Great Lakes are an incredible asset to the US and Canada. I'm glad to see that Duluth has turned the corner and is undergoing a Renaissance

Great content!! Makes me want to explore that area of the country sometime!!

Great video! We’re looking forward to checking Duluth out on our war around the north shores of Lake Superior soon!

Wow! Love these videos! Keep up the great work!

One of my fav places to visit in my home state!

I only know Duluth from the game Ticket To Ride. Nice to learn a bit more about the place. One problem with that bridge design is that it limits the height of the ships. Depending on the rest of the canal's dimensions this might not be an issue, but deepening a canal is probably easier than redoing that bridge for more height. I know because near where I live they're lifting all the older bridges on a canal so the barges can fit an extra level of containers.

Thank you for the history lesson, enjoy the ship arrivals/departures on you tube

Love learning thank you.

Interesting history! I grew up in southeastern PA so I’ve never really learned any history in the Midwest

I am watching this on July 13, coincidence because that's one of the dates in the video

Very interesting video.

Excellent video. Nice almost no music.

Thanks for this video ❤

You make a good team

The Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railway moved huge tonnages of iron ore from the Iron Range mines to Duluth using some of the most powerful steam engines ever built, later replaced by diesels. When we lived in BIrmingham, England one of our neighbours had been a ship's radio operator, and had been to Duluth on his ship. He told me that on entering the Lawrence Seaway, the ship's toilets all had to be locked so no sewage went into the river, and temporary chemical toilets installed on deck. The sewage had to be removed at specific points on the sail to Duluth and back to the Atlantic. He never told me what the ship loaded with at Duluth. Would it have been grain ? I don't think it was an ore carrier ship.

I been to Duluth twice, but sadly no ships came in while I was there. I do watch some of the youtubers that do ship videos.

My father while on a business meeting in Toledo met the HR director who hired the crew for the Fitzgerald. That HR director said he thought of that crew everyday of his life as it was a small community of specialists and everyone knew each other working the lake cargo.

North America has by far the greatest and most useful system of waterways in the world! Duluth is one of the really impressive ports! I would question the assertion that all of the “good” Iron was mined and state that the Iron and Steel industry abandoned northern Ohio and the Upper Ohio Valley more or less isolating the remaining resource.

Fascinating.

Very interesting thanks

I love your history lessons..!.. and that this was your birthplace how cool is that !, I really want to go there and check everything out ..I love watching the boats ( on other peoples videos ) just makes me want to go even more , anyways great job in covering this bit of history

LOVE Duluth. Lived There For A Year. Wonderful City, "The San Francisco Of The North". Area Was Called Spirit Mountain By The Native Americans Because When You Get An East Wind Coming Over Lake Superior A Thick Fog Develops, San Francisco Like, That Blankets Duluth. We Had Fog So Thick For Two Weeks In June That You Had To Drive With Your Headlights On At Midday. Duluth Stretches Out Thin Along Lake Superior Shoreline, With Ethnic Group Enclaves Anchored By Their Catholic Church. East Duluth Was Interesting Because There Was A Railroad That Split It In Half, With The Serbians On One Side And The Croations On The Other. And Disliked Each Other. A Croations Woman I Knew Used To Tell Stories About Her Father Telling Her He Better Not Catch Her Dating Any Serbian Boy Across The Tracks, So The Joke Was They Immigrated And Came Half Way Around The World To Settle Right Next To Each Other And Hate Each Other The Very Same As They Did In Europe. The Enemy You Know!? Duluth Had Wonderful Parks And In Particular Parks That Were Loaded With Winter Activity. A Hockey Rink In Every One. Many Taboggan Runs, Even Ski Runs And A Luge Run. Duluth's Park Point Beach Stretches For Miles, And Had Great Swimming, IF The Wind Was Coming From The East. If Coming From The West The Warm Water Would Get Pushed Out Into Lake Superior And Ice Cold Water Would Bubble Up And Replace And You Would Freeze Your Nuts Off! Except It Didn't Bother The Locals At All! Duluth's Zoo Was Outstanding. And The Best Asian Restaurant I Ever Went To, Called A Taste Of Saigon, Was In The Canal Zone! Even Impressed My Japanese Guests. University Of Minnesota Duluth Always Had A Big Hockey Game. And Downtown Duluth Had A Skywalk That Allowed You To Walk The Entire Downtown Indoors, A Must In 40 Below Winter! Loved The Stone Buildings In Downtown Duluth. And A Drive Along The North Shore Provided Tons Of Rivers And Falls To Hike! What A City! What Memories. Another Great Job You Guys!

Very interesting. I’m a fan of your videos.

Before all of the dams were in place you could take a steamboat from New Orleans to Great Falls, Montana. It was actually a steamboat that rescued the US Cavalry survivors of the Little Bighorn via the Missouri, Yellowstone, and Little Bighorn rivers.

Great video, I visited Duluth and the North Shore in 2022 with my family and we all loved it. From the Duluth Ship Canal all the way up to the Gunflint Trail in Grand Marais, it was so beautiful. We drove all the way to the Gunflint Lodge and the Canada border up there. Along the way we visited Gooseberry Falls, Split Rock Lighthouse, Palisade Head, Black Beach, Grand Marais and so much more. It took us a week and we took the S.S. Badger across from Ludington Michigan to Manitowoc Wisconsin. And then back again on the way home. I have so many great pictures and videos of that trip. This is Day 1 of the vacation video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vqh3lOHDx5w.htmlsi=_u7F_PyAFhxHu-N_

I’m from Welland. The seaway is minutes from my house. Great video

Sweet video keep up the good work eh.