Lake & Rail: (Satellite)
Marine "A": (Satellite)2 of several photos posted by Karen Limardi from a boat tour.
[Marine "A" in the left foreground and Lake & Rail on the right.]
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| a Janice Smith: Are they used or empty? Brian R. Wroblewski: Janice Smith there are 5 active elevators here & one in caretaker status. 2 for grain & 3 for cement are still operational. |
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| b Brad Bailey: Poor old Columbia. It appears she has slid back into languishing in a back slip. It doesn't appear that her new owners are making any progress towards her rehabilitation. On the other hand her sister ship the Ste. Clair appears to be moving right along despite a fire that burnt it to the waterline. They are making great strides in resurrecting her. Hate to see either of them gone from the Detroit river scene. Doubly sad since the Columbia is pretty much still fully intact as true floating history of another time but at least the Ste. Clair might yet rise again and be a part of the Detroit river scene one day if it the majority of it will be a recreation. [Karen's post has some closeups of the Columbia.] |
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| Justin J. M. Higner shared a Lloyd Schrack post Dinga Walton: Where? Dennis DeBruler: Dinga Walton Marine "A" in the foreground, https://www.google.com/.../@42.860791.../data=!3m1!1e3..., and Lake & Rail in the background. |
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| Roger Durfee posted Was in Buffalo, NY yesterday (05-01-2025) and noticed this boat while droning Silo City, so took the bird down a little to grab some photos. It's the SS Columbia, one of only two remaining excursion steamships like this, launched in May, 1902. There seems to have been several efforts to save/restore this vessel, but as you see, things don't look good. Too bad, as the other remaining one like this, the SS Ste Claire, had a bad fire in 2018. Edit to say the Ste Claire is being redone after the fire with good progress being made. Candice Stoughton: SS STE CLAIRE is being rebuilt and almost completed. John R Witt: Candice Stoughton but it was not able to remain on the federal registry of historic places as they are not rebuilding it to original spec. Columbia is the only steamer left that as of now is original. The owner still has a glimmer of hope but it’s a longshot. I photographed the entire Columbia from bow to Stern and top to the engine room. |
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| Jay K. Frederick commented on Roger's post ❤I grew up on the Detroit River in Amherstburg, Ontario, looking out my front window at Boblo Island - LOVED Columbia and Ste. Claire and rode both of these girls countless times over the years. I was actually part of the Canadian contingent on the restoration team that was trying to restore Ste. Claire (before it was sold to the doctor who owned it when the fire broke out). Here's one of my pics of Columbia in her hey day, down bound to the boat dock on the island, opposite Amherstburg's "King's Navy Yard Park" - circa 1978(?). Originally designed by Frank Kirby, they were the two remaining triple-expansion steamships on the Great Lakes. The owners had their own distinctive whistle tone designed; the Columbia's whistle was a single tone, while Ste. Claire's was a dual tone. I SO MISS THESE TWO GALS!!!😢😢😢 |
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| David Shannon Boyd commented on Roger's post Glad to have enjoyed a family trip or two - to the Island and my Dad took this photo of her up in Port Huron. |
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| Fahim Ali posted Elevators along the Buffalo River, 1930's Brian R. Wroblewski shared The American, Marine 'A' & Lake & Rail, Buffalo, NY. Laker is the United States Gypsum. |
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| Ellen Foy Mruk posted via Dennis DeBruler "[This would be looking South with American on the right and Marine "A" on the left. Lake & Rail is out-of-frame to the left.]" |
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| 1950 Buffalo SE Quad @ 24,000 |
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| Jerry M Malloy posted The older Kinsman Independent at the Lake & Rail Elevator on the Buffalo River, Buffalo N.Y. This is not the Ernest Breech. Because the river does not have a great flow rate on normal weather days, early mornings would sometimes bring mirror-like conditions to the surface. Standing on the river bank one would almost feel like you could fall into the sky! Richard Wicklund: Pictured is the 2nd Kinsman Independent (2), the former Richard V. Lindabury of U. S. Steel's Pittsburgh fleet. The 1st Kinsman Independent (1) was the former Francis E. House also of the Pittsburgh fleet. The Breech became the 3rd Kinsman Independent. (I am admin. of the Steinbrenner fleet on Facebook.) Karen Limardi shared |
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| Jerry M Malloy posted Cuyahoga unloading at the Lake & Rail Elevator on the Buffalo River, Buffalo N.Y. Marine "A" Elevator in background. Sept. 2012 Richard Wicklund: For a very short time as the J. Burton Ayers, it served in Kinsman colors in 1973. |
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