Yardo's pics of however often I feel like posting them September 2018 Version

[1958 F.W.D.]

The weekend of Sept 7/8/9 I went to the wedding of a very close friend (in fact it was Ross Gabrick, the son of Robert Gabrick, many of you know to have written multiple books about transportation and trucks of various makes....) up in Duluth, Minnesota. I flew into Minneapolis and rented a car and drove up to Duluth. I was never in that part of the country before, let alone ever having seen any of the Great Lakes. My favorite part of the drive was northbound on I35 and going up that hill just south of Duluth, then when you crest the hill you look down into Duluth and the lake is all you see on the horizon. Beautiful. The wedding was something else, too. The headquarters for the wedding was at Larsmont, a resort right on the north shore of the lake in Two Harbors. Because Ross is a huge Bus nut, we took antique buses from the resort to the church on the other side of the famous lift bridge in Duluth. Then the buses from the church over to the reception at Deluth Union Depot, the old train station. It has been fixed up into it's heydey of train travel. Dinner was in the main lobby/waiting area. Then we had free roam of the train museum downstairs on the track level. The best part of all however was the private chartered train ride from Duluth to Two Harbors and back. Originally we were supposed to be pulled by tea kettle, however it suffered a fractured drive tire and had to be sidelined. So, F7 power it was. Yes, overgrown Detroit power. Oh well. 

One of the two buses, this one is the 1948 GMC, its entire life was Greyhound. The other bus was a 1960 GMC/Greyhound. I don't know why I didn't get a pic of it. 


I saw a freighter out on the Lake. This was taken from the harbor entrance, so I was told it was probably swinging on the hook until Monday morning when it would steam into Duluth or Superior, Mi. to unload. 


On Sunday I went to the Great Lakes Maritime Visitors Center, which is in the US Army Corps of Engineers building right there at the lift bridge. It is an excellent little museum (and free.) If you are into this kind of stuff, and are ever up that way, I highly recommend it. This is a model of how the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald looks. 



I saw a girl in a train car. 



I saw a 1938 Kahlenberg Diesel engine. 



I saw a two cylinder steam engine from a tugboat. 


I saw a world-famous lift bridge. They say it raises 5000+ times in a year. I believe it because in the three hours I spent in the area, it went up 4 or 5 times. I even took a video with a vessel and the bridge saluting one another with one long and two short air horn blasts. This is a tradition. I'd like to have the bridge air horn on my pickup truck.


I saw a Pterodactyl. 


I saw another lake freighter, this was at the resort. At the time I pulled it up on shipfinder, but I don't remember the name, but it is one of the "Thousand Footers." 


I saw a pair of F-7's pulling the private wedding train


I saw Duluth Missabe and Iron Range #229, a Baldwin "Yellowstone" 4-8-8-4, a smaller version of the UP Big Boy. This one is at the train station in Two Harbors. There is another one in the museum in Duluth where I got to go inside the cab. 


I saw the William A. Irvin, a retired Lake Freighter which is now a museum. I was pissed because I could not go aboard, they had the pier closed for renovations. 

[HarryS]

Great pictures. Thanks for sharing.

[Mack Technician]

Nice pics.

Spent Labor Day up there, tip of Bayfield County near Cornacopia. It really is something.

You dip your foot in the pool?

Water was 60 deg when we got there to swim. A family was kayaking off the Apostle Islands that same weekend, flipped the kayak when a storm blew. The dad and all three kids froze to death. The mom survived because she was conveniently overweight. Lake Superior is pretty, but not friendly. 

[other dog]

As Randyp would say- excellent kodiakatronomy! Looks like Ross probably doesn't worry about whether he has enough cash to pay for his purchases when he goes to Family Dollar.

[hatcity]

8 minutes ago, other dog said:

As Randyp would say- excellent kodiakatronomy! Looks like Ross probably doesn't worry about whether he has enough cash to pay for his purchases when he goes to Family Dollar.

Haven't heard from him in a while...anyone know the story

[1958 F.W.D.]

4 hours ago, hatcity said:

Haven't heard from him in a while...anyone know the story

I just went to look him up on Bookface and he is gone. 

[BillyT]

Great pics OD!

[other dog]

49 minutes ago, BillyT said:

Great pics OD!

Thank you, thank you very much!..huh?

[GreenGiant2]

I miss randy p. Antics

[HeavyGunner]

17 minutes ago, GreenGiant2 said:

I miss randy p. Antics

Amen, great guy with a phenomenal sense of humor. 

[h67st]

That #229 is huge! Very good photos.

[other dog]

On 9/23/2018 at 4:21 PM, 1958 F.W.D. said:

I just went to look him up on Bookface and he is gone. 

I saw his page, but his last post was in May.