Great lake boats, a good video

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Shot of the day... In the foreground the John G Munson receiving supplies from the Ojibway Supply Boat... They are downbound loaded with ore from Marquette and headed for Indiana Harbor... Behind them is the CSL St Laurent upbound headed for Thunder Bay likely for grain to bring to somewhere in Quebec along the St Lawrence Seaway... then at the very back there is the AlgoCanada tanker moored at Purvis Marine limited offloading petroleum (gasoline) Soo locks.
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   / Great lake boats, a good video
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How to they unload the grain boats?
Kinda depends on the boat used. Some that do not have a self-unloading system the elevator will have a grain vac or scoop type crane.
 
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On this day in History, the St. Lawrence Seaway officially opened in 1959.


(also, 1974 a pack of Juicy Fruit gum was the first item ever to be scanned with a bar code, and 1975 Sonny and Cher got divorced. Also some other minor stuff like the beginning of the Berlin Airlift and the Civil War Battle of Mechanicsville ;) )
 
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June 1909, at the Canadian Lock on the St. Marys River, Soo Michigan, they experienced a free flow through the lock after an upbound freighter breeched the lower operating gates. A photographer trapped on the south side of the lock captured this image. As you can see, a free flow through a lock creates a rapids within the chamber making it impossible to navigate.
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