TRRS 541: Arthur M Anderson Loading Iron Ore Fines @ LS&I
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- čas přidán 22. 02. 2020
- 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.
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- Primary: Sony FDR-AX53 4K Camcorder
- Aerial Platform: DJI Phantom 3 Advanced Drone
- Radio Scanner: Uniden Bearcat BC125AT
- Edited with: Cyberlink PowerDirector 16
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This is a great video! I work in Burns Harbor on a blast furnace that this mighty ship was bound for. Very cool!!
My favorite Great Lakes ship ... the Hero Queen of the Lakes! Still looking good, out there getting the job done. ❤
I’ll go on record and say that you produce some of the very best Railroad content on the net, period. Excellent work once again!
+Dave Bottita I'll second, third and forth that. The vote is unanimous.
A drone? Okay, now you've gone too far. LOL Man, you make the best videos about trains. PERIOD! I also love the facts and figures you present as well including links to maps. You're top notch! These videos have been great to watch during the Covid-19 isolation. Thank you soooooo much!
Your videos are the best. There is a serene quality to them that makes them so enjoyable to watch. Often times I'll play one of the longer ones to help me fall asleep and it always does the trick.
I heard the Arthur M Anderson was at dock indefinitely a few years ago, and some suggested she was more likely to go to the scrapper than back out on the lakes. Great to see her in revenue service again!
The day she is retired she needs to be docked at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum.
@@reedermh agreed!! She needs to be preserved. She is too much a piece of history to just be cut up...🥺
Of all the classic lakers remaining, I have a hard time believing, that the Anderson will end up scrapped.
If only this vessel could talk !!! I would listen all day !!! Great vid !!!!
Drone segments are awesome. I like the educational information during the videos too. Keep up the good work.
Great video. The quality of your videos is excellent.
Another great video! Thanks Alex.
Another Yooper hear, I lived in Marquette for several years as a young man. Played on the ore docks and fished around the upper dock. Great memories!. Thx. for the video!!
Great video. Very interesting the way these ships are loaded. Especially right from the railroad cars.
Excellent Alex.
Great job, Alex!
Excellent narration as expected from any TRRS video
Awesome video bro as always. I love it!!
Amazing. I did not know this ship was still in service. Good video quality as well.
Nice to see you still have an iron and steel industries no for long here in UK
Great videos of rail and associated industries
Keep producing them keeps me occupied wilst in lock down
Thanks again from UK
Very nice .. thank for important video
Watched from Japan 🇯🇵
Amazing video thank you for the information!
I live in the city that this was filmed. Its incredibly rare too the Anderson come to Marquette, let alone any ship in that fleet (Great Lakes Fleet). As a matter of fact, I've never seen a ship from that fleet in Marquette since I moved here 11 years ago, and the day the Anderson was here I wasn't in town. It would've been nice to see her
Thanks for another Well done video.
Excellent video (well actually all of your videos are). Always liked this boat & its association with the Edmund Fitz. I subscribed today :)
Great video! Years after living in Little Lake, we moved to Paradise, Michigan. I grew up in Paradise for most of my childhood. As a result, I know about the Edmund Fitzgerald. My mom told me the Edmund Fitzgerald when I was 8. I was 2 years old when the Edmund Fitzgerald sunk. I learned about the Arthur M. Anderson by going to the Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point. As you know by now I’m a Yooper. I currently reside in Chicago. The thing is, I didn’t venture too far from the Great Lakes.
Very interesting. Thank you for posting
Great job!
This really puts into perspective how massive the Great Lakes freighters are. You have these big railroad cars full of iron ore... and they look like toys compared to the Anderson.
And the 1,000 footers dwarf the smaller vessels like the Anderson, as large as it is.
Great video!
Very interesting. Thank you.
Didn't she just come out of mothballs this year? (again)
And this is one fantastic, beautiful video! Thanks
Very cool video.
I remember as a kid picking the taconite off the tracks to use in my wrist rocket. Glad they can reclaim them, there was a lot on the tracks.
Thanks!!!
I remember at the BAYTOWN, TEXAS EXXON DOCKS, while unloading a oil tanker, they offloaded unevenly and sank the ship.
This Is A Very Enjoyable Video. I Learned A Great Deal.
From the video from the video and after doing some digging online, here's what I would say makes up the low-grade product that's shipped out:
Low grade ore = Overs (oversize pellets) + Fines (undersized pellets) + Rejects (pellets that are misshapen, broken, contaminated, _et cetera_) + Debris (small amounts of track ballast, _et cetera_) + Reclaimed ore (pellets sucked up from the tracks).
Cool video thank you 😊
The color of this video is excellent 👌
It was to see the Anderson's rare visit to Marquette hope she will return
Holy gee whiz this is amazing!
Very cool. Noticed that there are come CEFX/Cit units delivering the rail cars. Wonder if they're purchase or lease units. As an aside. EXCELLENT drone footage! Most of the videos of Arthur M Anderson I ever see are when she's pulling through a bridge into a harbor and tooting her horn. Although I had read up about the Edmund Fitzgerald incident prior.
The locomotives are on long term lease to the LS&I
very cool
She really is one of the prettiest lakers.
Nice ship, when i build a model ship it will be this one.
ive been there a ton but rarely see one there
That ship has a sad story as she was the last to witness the Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew alive
Any chance you could get access to video the unloading of bulk ships to see how it's done. Unloading at mill is probably not rail related in any way but would be very interesting to see...Thanks for another great video.
Clever Ship Loading method.
Hi Alex, I was wondering how you shot this video and where you had to stand for these great shots. Another good video!!
It was shot with a drone and I was just standing along the shoreline
How do they get it out?
Great video , you seam to go thru great trouble filming all this . You’re obviously into trains , do you work with them ? , How old are you?
Thank you very much , enjoy your videos !!
the one thing I don't understand is how the crew gets the 2 rear most hatches off when they are at least 10 feet above the spar deck, some on the Lee A Tregurtha.
I was wondering, this too. So I took a look, and if you pause this video right at 1:30 or so, you can see that the two rearward hatch covers are mounted on rails and are simply slid off.
I believe they would use this system on the main deck, but there is not enough room for it, as many hatches have to be stacked one on top of the other.
Great question, I learned something too!
The old girl still looks good
Where will this ship sail to, ??great videos, from S Wales in the UK
Why didn't they build steel mills right where the ore is?
My uncle worked on the boiler on that boat
How do they unload all that iron from the ship when it gets to Burns Harbor? How long does it take to unload?
The ship holds are hoppers which drop onto a conveyor belt, which ends up on the unloading boom you can see above the deck. They can unload in around 8 hours.
@@ThornappleRiverRailSeries -- Thanks! I'd love to see that operation (hint hint).
@Steven Van Niman -- Yeah, I found one not long after posting my comment...
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This is either in canada or the usa
so they send people to pick up pellets along the RR tracks?
Yes they have a machine that picked them up periodically.
@@ThornappleRiverRailSeries there must be a lot dropping off to make it worthwhile to create a vehicle to pick up the pellets, since these pellets aren't top grade to start with.
I like train videos videos on CZcams 👍
А как выгрузка ?
Just curious... any idea why the Anderson flies the American flag when it's Canadian owned?
She is managed by an American management firm and has been allowed to remain under the US flag. Her Canadian owners are rather hands off.
Canadian companies can not operate in the US as a Canadian company. They have to do it through a US subsidiary. Hence why CN keeps all of their US railroads alive. Since these ships almost exclusively operate between US ports, CN has to keep these boats under US flags.
@@GEES44DC IDK, I can think of lots of Canadian-owned companies operating in the USA.
@@moaski And those divisions are done through US subsidiaries or other entities. CN does not officially do business in the US as CN, it's legally done through one of their US subsidiaries.
How many railcars does it take to load the ship ?
300-400 or so for a typical laker.
@@ThornappleRiverRailSeries , Thanks for your reply
What’s your real name kid? I have some questions I wanna ask you.
My email is on the channel page.
That's amazing! how long of a life span do these big freighters have? This ship must have payed for itself many times over.
Indefinite. Since they're in freshwater, their hulls stay in great shape.
With good maintenance they might last 2000 years on their original engines, although at some point I could see Interlake Steamship and CN convert their ships to Diesel-electric (hybrid) propulsion to make them more efficient than their current setup which is the traditional Diesel-mechanical system.
@@electric7487 2000 years ? dude what are you smoking? I want some.
@@johnstudd4245 I was joking.
...when the Gales of November turn shitty...
She turned around without assistance from a tug ?
Yes. Great Lakes freighters are equipped with bow thrusters, giving them significant maneuverability capabilities without tug assistance.
with a load of iron ore 26,000 tons more....
What was the name of the steel mill ??
I think he meant ArcelorMittal. czcams.com/channels/5yJEf3y_0dB5hLCr7zR7-w.html
Arcelor Mittal's Burns Harbor Works
"With a load of iron ore 26000 tones more the the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty"
What a pity about the voiceover.
I love your lakers
I'm al zo a fan of your big and long (beasts) of trains
But (and this is not more or less my own opinion )
I find listening to this voice is irritating, and yes I know about the Fitzgerald
But that was 45 years ago !
But its just some nobody's opinion
Not something you see every day