But a big part of the Great Lakes' charm when I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s was the hard-working iron-ore boats that traveled its waters. The boats carried ore, coal, grain and limestone ...

It was the penultimate boat ... the Great Lakes, according to George Wharton on boatnerd.com. It's maiden voyage in 1977 was from Lorain, to Superior, Wisconsin, to pick up a load of iron ore.

The situation was dire in April with Great Lakes freighters still mired in ice and millions of tons of Minnesota taconite iron ore sitting in ... That’s allowed boats to carry heavier loads ...

The situation was dire in April with Great Lakes freighters still mired in ice and millions of tons of Minnesota taconite iron ore sitting in ... That’s allowed boats to carry heavier loads ...

We all realize thousands of people visit Duluth every year for the express purpose of seeing a massive ore boat chug under the ... a library of books about Great Lakes shipping, and in just ...

As one of six children, we normally went with our mother, who loved to drive throughout the Great Lakes, to meet the ore boat at such Great Lakes ports as Conneaut, Gary, South Chicago ...

An ore boat that appears to have turned around ... Alexandre Boulé told the News Tribune. One of the Great Lakes Fleet of boats, the Callaway is owned by Canadian National Railway.

ArcelorMittal is calling for more federal investment in the Great Lakes to ensure it has clear ... Marie, Michigan that gives ore boats safe passage to the steel mills that ring Lake Michigan's ...