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| Kaye E Barker |
Monday, September 28, 2015
Kaye E Barker arrived Duluth at 16:40
A painters pole helps get an elevated view of the Kaye E Barker as she rolled into the Duluth Shipping Canal this afternoon.
Moonbeams, Boats and Bridges -- It doesn't get any better then this
As the Full Moon tracked across the sky towards an eclipse, it's reflective beam highlighted another "Superior" evening in Duluth.
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| Paul R Tregurtha |
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| Paul R Tregurtha |
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| Federal Mattawa |
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| Lunar Eclipse |
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Harbor History -Duluth Fog Horn
Listen to the old horn!
Story contributed by Zenith City Online
| by This Day |
On this day in Duluth in 2006, members of Duluth’s TOOT (“ReTurn Our Old Tone”), who had purchased Duluth’s old fog horn, dismantled the horn. Duluth had relied on a fog horn from 1885 to until the 1970s—some folks loved it, others hated it. The 1885 signal was updated with steam-powered whistles in 1901, locomotive […]
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| The diaphone fog whistle as it appeared inside the South Pier Lighthouse. (Image: X-comm.) |
Friday, September 25, 2015
History - Grand Island East Channel Light
Grand Island East Channel Light
by Terry Pepper
by Terry Pepper
Location: Southeast tip of Grand Island, Michigan (north of Munising off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, see map below.) Year Built: 1867 Cost: $16,000 (about $255,000 today) Original Lens: Oil-fired steamer lens with a 49-foot focal plane. First Exhibited: August 15, 1868 Second Lens: Fixed white Fifth Order Fresnel lens (1869, range 13.25 miles) Fog Signal: None […]
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