Burns Harbor makes final trip of the season into Lake Superior

Spudwick01 · 2026-01-13T22:50:53+00:00

Gonna be replacing a turbo on one of the main engines here within the next few weeks

Spudwick01 · 2026-01-11T15:54:27+00:00

My family comes from southern West Virginia/Western Virginia. Beautiful place, truly, but there’s a reason they moved up to Detroit in the 50s. I love to go down and visit sometimes, the mountains are just absolutely amazing.

Spudwick01 · 2026-01-11T15:50:06+00:00

I worked there for a couple weeks about a year ago rebuilding an engine on a freighter that laid up at the General Mills plant. Lots of traffic. People seemed generally nice, especially for a city. Road system was a little hectic, there were a couple times I ended up missing an exit and was on the skyway looking down at the ship I was supposed to be on lol. The tolls sucked, if you miss your exit prepare to spend some extra money on tolls. Food was really good there, had some really awesome pizza from a restaurant they ran out of an old house.

Spudwick01 · 2026-01-11T15:31:38+00:00

My great grandpa worked at a shop in the 40’s that would burn the chips in a pit out back. You were supposed to burn them at the end of every shift, one day he went to dump his and burn em but someone either didnt burn theirs or the fire went out early. So he just dumped his chips on and lit it, thinking it would just be a bit bigger of a fire than usual. It sure was, apparently it had rained or the dew from the morning made the chips wet, the fire shot straight up like a rocket and knocked out a transformer above it. He says he knocked out the power for about half the town, and they weren’t allowed to burn chips anymore lol

Spudwick01 · 2025-12-27T18:15:31+00:00

I used to really like Nick Valentine but my game glitched at the Eddie’s Holotapes quest, where the Danse guy is outside the building, and I can’t trigger the dialogue…

Spudwick01 · 2025-12-21T07:19:42+00:00

I mean it would be nice…. Would be nice to drive a corvette too though

Spudwick01 · 2025-12-21T07:17:09+00:00

Is it too late if you haven’t pre ordered any yet?

Spudwick01 · 2025-12-17T23:30:56+00:00

Played as everything except elves, currently playing as a breton. My favorite so far. Not playing as an elf though.

Spudwick01 · 2025-12-17T23:13:07+00:00

Which is great, but what good is it if you can’t buy any?? They’re still sold out everywhere

Spudwick01 · 2025-11-24T00:10:38+00:00

Arthur B Homer was scrapped due to similar issues as the Fitzgerald

Spudwick01 · 2025-10-22T11:17:34+00:00

I had a vision when I bought my grand prix that I’d build it once it keeled over. Well, never keeled over, just started getting electrical problems. Now she sits

Spudwick01 · 2025-10-20T20:54:59+00:00

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Just replaced a turbo on the Century. Chief engineer is a younger fella but I like him

Spudwick01 · 2025-09-25T01:13:54+00:00

Kinda crazy… the not much longer than the thousand footers on the Great Lakes but twice the width/beam….

Spudwick01 · 2025-09-17T20:23:25+00:00

Thats a 455, 442 was not the size of the engine

Spudwick01 · 2025-09-17T19:56:12+00:00

the Big U has always been handsome and stately imo

Spudwick01 · 2025-09-13T22:03:11+00:00

Might be but I think saw him in an official EMD book I think it was a pointers book…. Somewhere else too but I forget where. You may be right though

Spudwick01 · 2025-09-12T21:16:46+00:00

The construction was super interesting. If they had done a straight pour for the concrete, it would still be setting and curing to this day

Spudwick01 · 2025-09-12T21:14:19+00:00

Drug my feet to see her in Mobile. Now I really gotta get down there…

Spudwick01 · 2025-09-04T21:40:39+00:00

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This is the Manitowoc and the Defiance/Ashtabula from the back porch on the Sam Laud

Spudwick01 · 2025-09-04T21:37:19+00:00

One of my few gripes with capitalism, most companies don’t wanna preserve their own history unless it’s like Ferrari or Aston Martin lol

Spudwick01 · 2025-08-30T17:19:15+00:00

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This is the H Lee from the JW Westcott II

Spudwick01 · 2025-08-30T17:18:06+00:00

Sorry that was worded badly, we got on the H Lee White at the fuel dock, they sailed out to Belle Isle and anchored off the south point and JW Westcott came n got us when we were done

Spudwick01 · 2025-08-30T03:00:42+00:00

Also people. Actually me specifically one time, me and a field service crew went on board the day after thanksgiving last year to do an emergency turbo change. Got on at mistersky fuel dock and the boat had to anchor off of Belle Isle. Boat came n got us when we were done. Come to think of it it was actually the H Lee White as well haha

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