Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: passenger

Although we didn't ride the K&K railway excursion (a timing issue, mostly), a few days later we boarded a train in Titusville and rode along the Oil Creek valley (PDF). This is a truly historic area--the petroleum industry was born here--and the tour did a decent job of introducing that history. It's rather like a mining area's saga, with boom towns and speculators and colorful characters. Now mostly wilderness, and ruins. George Bissell, after whom the car is named, was an oil industry pioneer. The photo was taken, I believe, at the tour's Petroleum Centre stop.

Passenger ship Nantucket Clipper and 1000-foot lakes boat Oglebay Norton downbound at Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, sometime in 1998. This is my Chinon Genesis at its best. I reached through the fence, pointed it at the ships, and let the camera get the focus right. It generally handled these situations right; over the years I learned to trust it. Of course, if I tried to do this nowadays I'd likely get shot....

"July 10, 1939 Steamer Varmonic [sic--he may have writ Harmonic, which is still wrong] Canadian S.S. docking at ft of Brush St. Detroit Mich" Mr. Borucki got the name wrong for this ship--and that location is now occupied by RenCen. CSL Northern Navigation's Hamonic travelled between Detroit, Sarnia, and Lake Superior Ports from her 1909 launch until she was destroyed in a Point Edward fire on July 17, 1945. There were no casualties, as the crew acted quickly to abandon the ship. Northern Navigation's ships were deliberately styled to look like ocean liners. This ship was reportedly named for company president Harold C. Hammond. It perhaps helps to know that all three ships in the fleet had names which ended "ONIC"--the others were Huronic and Noronic. Borucki's Lakers

"North American docked at Mackinac Island July 17, 1938" Passenger steamer North American was launched at Ecorse, Michigan in 1913 for the Chicago, Duluth & Georgian Bay Transit Company and cruised the lakes for the Georgian Bay Company until 1963; in 1964 she did ferry service across Lake Erie for Canadian Holiday of Erie, PA. She sank off New England in 1967; the wreck was located in 2006 . North American was 280 feet long; I've been unable to find her passenger capacity. Her slightly-larger sister ship, South American, had a similar career. The Mackinac Island harbor's changed a bit in the intervening decades. I've been unable to determine the identity of the smaller passenger ferry alongside North American. Borucki's Lakers