That's Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad, for those who don't know. The dock's also known as Presque Isle and as Marquette Upper Harbor. It extends into Lake Superior near Marquette's Presque Isle Park and its purpose is to dump ore brought by the railroad from the local iron mines by the into ships.
If I lived in Marquette I'd be there every day during the shipping season (which ended last night, by the way).
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I scanned a roll of film earlier today which seems to contain a couple days' images. On the first day I took a photo at the mine in Republic, then captured this one, then found my way to the top of Marquette Mountain (it's a ski hill) and took a couple pix from there. The second day was more ambitious, with several pics apiece around Escanaba's rail yard, at Republic's mine, and of a ship loading back here at the dock. On the whole I like this set so I'll be posting more over the next two or three days.
I'm guessing these were taken in July or August of 1990, but it could be some other early-90s summer. The film processor's packaging has no useful dates.
But a curious thing: Last May I scanned a similar roll of film. The photos aren't the same photos, but they were clearly taken at the same times and places. It's as though I was swapping cameras and duplicating every little photo session. That seems real unlikely--although I've long carried a pocket camera on outings, I really don't use it the same way I use my main camera. Nonetheless, it looks like I did that on this date.
Ah, mysteries.
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Escanaba's power plant, with the Escanaba ore dock in the distance. But this photo's really about that gate, and the barbed wire in the foreground.
I expect I'll post a somewhat better view of the dock tomorrow.
July or August of 1990, I think. Scanned from a Kodak Gold 100 negative.
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A ship named Presque Isle at the LS&I dock (often also called Presque Isle), Marquette, Michigan; summer of 1990. Technically the "ship" is an integrated tug-barge, but for all practical purposes this one's a ship. FWIW, they're named after different Presque Isles; the ship's namesake is on Lake Erie.
I rather like the way Old Glory caught what seems to be the only ray of sunshine.
One last photo from the roll of Gold 100 film I scanned a few days back. Camera was probably my Chinon Genesis 3.
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