Niagara Tracks of the StoneBear
April 09
Ontario Province Canada
Welland Canal 1
Working in a shipyard as a teenager was one of the great learning experiences I cherish. Big ocean going ships are great! Not just in size... they are engineering at it's best. You put a high school kid in a shipyard for a couple years.... they can compete with college engineering degrees. No joke.
Up at Niagara... lake Erie ....has the falls on the Niagara river. Good for tourists. Let's go where the are no tourists... where Tracks of the StoneBear likes.
Ships can't pass on the river. On the Niagara pennesula ... almost 200 years ago, they started engineering this shipping canal. ... From Lake Erie to Lake Ontario,... and out onto the sea for international ports of the world. Everything,... every commodity, raw material that is shipped out of the industrial bastion around the great lakes.... comes through here. This is the slot.
I've always liked port towns. They were wide open social, dynamic phenomenom. There's always something going on in a port town.... the bad stuff too. It's not the small town mentality where the guys are sitting around at the seed and feed talking about if it's gonna rain. Shipping workers are hard, rugged guys.
There are 8 locks on this canal, this is #7 at Thorold, Ontario. This ship passing through was light, empty,... deadheading from emptying or to load up ahead and return or go on ahead. This ship clearing the #7 Lock is heading north onto Lake Ontario. I'd like to see the shipping manifest to see where it was headed; no telling. Northern direction would have gone up the St Laurence Seaway,... Through the Northumberland Straight, up around Cape Breton, and out into the North Sea past Newfoundland.
Was good to see this. Shipyard memories from 45 years back.
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Now i've talked about this before.... T -bird has this uncanny knack of attracting "friends" that often turn out to be the beyond wierd locals. Today, it was the Welland Canal strangler; the guy that knew way too much about what was going on around this place.
I asked "?you worked on the canal here"?
No
"?You worked on the ships and shipyards here?"
No. I just know a lot of what goes on around here.
Ooooooo K, time to go.
T- bird... he;s already staked out where he's going to hide my body... you were talking with the Welland Canal strangler.
Niagara Tracks of the StoneBear
April 09
Ontario Province Canada
Welland Canal 1
Working in a shipyard as a teenager was one of the great learning experiences I cherish. Big ocean going ships are great! Not just in size... they are engineering at it's best. You put a high school kid in a shipyard for a couple years.... they can compete with college engineering degrees. No joke.
Up at Niagara... lake Erie ....has the falls on the Niagara river. Good for tourists. Let's go where the are no tourists... where Tracks of the StoneBear likes.
Ships can't pass on the river. On the Niagara pennesula ... almost 200 years ago, they started engineering this shipping canal. ... From Lake Erie to Lake Ontario,... and out onto the sea for international ports of the world. Everything,... every commodity, raw material that is shipped out of the industrial bastion around the great lakes.... comes through here. This is the slot.
I've always liked port towns. They were wide open social, dynamic phenomenom. There's always something going on in a port town.... the bad stuff too. It's not the small town mentality where the guys are sitting around at the seed and feed talking about if it's gonna rain. Shipping workers are hard, rugged guys.
There are 8 locks on this canal, this is #7 at Thorold, Ontario. This ship passing through was light, empty,... deadheading from emptying or to load up ahead and return or go on ahead. This ship clearing the #7 Lock is heading north onto Lake Ontario. I'd like to see the shipping manifest to see where it was headed; no telling. Northern direction would have gone up the St Laurence Seaway,... Through the Northumberland Straight, up around Cape Breton, and out into the North Sea past Newfoundland.
Was good to see this. Shipyard memories from 45 years back.
****
Now i've talked about this before.... T -bird has this uncanny knack of attracting "friends" that often turn out to be the beyond wierd locals. Today, it was the Welland Canal strangler; the guy that knew way too much about what was going on around this place.
I asked "?you worked on the canal here"?
No
"?You worked on the ships and shipyards here?"
No. I just know a lot of what goes on around here.
Ooooooo K, time to go.
T- bird... he;s already staked out where he's going to hide my body... you were talking with the Welland Canal strangler.
