Boatnerd Discussion Forum

Thanks for the dinosaur clouds Jon Paul! I can smell it in my mind's nose now. I had reminders of coal machinery throughout my yout going to an elementary school that didn't convert the heating plant 'till 1979.

Excellent photos Jon Paul, thank you! Just a side note, the Hennepin was hand fired to the end.

all that smoke and black soot was the reason my mother hated to see a boat on the saint clair river after she had put her wet sheets out on the line to dry. russell island was a great place to grow up during the summer months.

Great pictures indeed. Thank you Jon Paul this is the stuff I love to see,old steamers plying the waters in a time when I would have liked to have been on one. Thanks again and keep them coming.

Some great historical photos on the News Photo Gallery this morning from Jon Paul Michaels.

Lots of smoke.

- Don