MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - 20 Oct 2019

The Arthur M Anderson is perhaps the most well-known ship currently sailing the Great Lakes, famed for her role in the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. She was the last ship to have radio and radar contact with the doomed ore carrier during that November Gale in 1975.

Today the Anderson is owned by Canadian National’s Great Lakes Fleet subsidiary, and thus is a regular for the ore docks of Minnesota, rarely calling at the LS&I.

She’s here today to load iron ore chips or "fines" as they’re sometimes known, a low-grade product consisting of pellets dropped and then reclaimed along the railroad, or which fail to meet size specifications at the mine during the pelletizing process. The ore will still be turned into steel, but it sells for pennies on the dollar compared to standard ore.

Curious about how the railroads in this video are laid out on the map? Check out my Google Map Overlay of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Railroads, via this link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GeS...

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