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Carferries1892
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2012
This is a channel dedicated to providing a variety of videos about the Carferries on Lake Michigan and the railroads that operated them!
SS Badger Arrives at Ludington- June 26, 2013
The last of it's kind steaming into it's home port of Ludington, Michigan. 2013 marks the Badger's 60th Season! Lake Michigan Carferry (operator of the BADGER) was recently granted 2 more years by the EPA to find a solution to it's practice of discharging coal ash into Lake Michigan.
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S.S. Spartan Carferry
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This video is a tribute to the SS Spartan Carferry that sailed for the C&O Railway from 1952 to 1979. It is a twin sister to the SS Badger (built in 1953). The Spartan was less popular then the City Of Midland and the Badger, so finding video footage is almost nearly impossible. However, I did however find some photos of the Spartan from it's heyday. Here are a few. Enjoy: Song: April in Paris-...
SS Badger Leaving Ludington 2012
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The former C&O Carferry is seen leaving the Ludington Harbor on it's 8:30 P.M. trip to Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Ride the Badger: www.ssbadger.com
SS City Of Midland 41 Docking in Kewaunee
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Title says it all! Video by: Ted Knack
SS Badger Rechristening Ceremony/Shoreline Cruise
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The rechristening of the SS Badger carferry, a former C&O train ferry that once carried rail cars but now carries passengers and automobiles. The rechristening took place on May 15, 2003 just before the Badger entered it's 50th year in service. Next year (2013), the Badger will enter it's 60th year in service! Video production by: Ken Borg
SS Badger- How It Works
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A short clip on how the S.S. Badger Carferry operates.
Les Bagley's "A Ferry Wake"
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A short film about the ferries that carried passengers and automobiles across the straits of mackinaw before the bridge. The reason I uploaded this was because many of the strait ferries were former Ann Arbor/C&O trainferries from Lake Michigan. FYI, the narrator talks very fast so make sure you're listening! Most of the video talks about the "Sunshine Coast Queen", which I'm assuming was the n...
SS Badger out of Ludington
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A cell phone video of the SS Badger Car Ferry leaving Ludington harbor. The SS Badger was the last railroad car ferry ever built on the Great Lakes. It is the largest carferry ever built on the Great Lakes with a length of 410 ft and a beam of 60 ft. It weighs 7,000 tons and was able to carry 34 rail cars. It was built in 1953 by the Christy Corporation at Sturgeon Bay, WI. It was the flagship ...
C&O's "The Golden Link" (C&O's Carferry Promo Film)
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This was a promotional film for the C&O railway's carferry operation based out of Ludington, Michigan. This film was made in 1960 during the peak or golden era of the carferries on Lake Michigan. During this era, 6 carferries were running in and out of Ludington. Today, only the Badger remains in service. However, it no longer carries rail cars, but carries leisure passengers and automobiles. Y...
Ann Arbor Railroad At Elberta- Loading The Carferries 1968-1972
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This of a film of the Ann Arbor Railroad loading the carferries at Elberta/Frankfort, Michigan during the late 60's to early 70's Video provided by: Bob Kalal
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trying to find a video of spartan in operation
Taking the badger tomorrow
It is not a horn
I wonder if we can pay a copy of that DVD
My Grandpa , Capt Charles E Robertson, skippered Her on her maiden voyage. 💗🚢
May I use this in a documetary I am producing on the SS Badger?
Glad to have found this video. I have taken the Badger many a time across the lake, although a little later than this video.
I rode on the Sunshine Coast Queen during her final year of operation with B.C. Ferries. The lady had character!
Love the idea that something designed, built and engineered long ago is still available for people to experience and appreciate. I've had the pleasure of traveling on the S.S. Badger twice and look forward to doing so again.
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My family took a trip across lake Michigan on this ferry back in the '60s... It was a great experience
2:02 City of midland 41 whistle
The late 60's,early 70's.Operated until 1982 & became history.
That's pretty awesome thank you
Now hearing how the ship makes the turn with one engine going forward and the other going backwards why didn’t Titanic do this manoeuvre instead of all engines in reverse they might not have missed the ice burg but had less amount of damage.
Why the sudden eruption of smoke? Did they fire up the soot blowers?
Just coal fire under load
The fireman would have increased the feed rate of the stokers and this created a imbalance between the fuel and air ratio (thus the black smoke). The fireman did this to keep up with the steam demand in the engine room for the main engines while they were maneuvering. Those Skinner Uniflows use a metric ton of steam while doing this maneuver.
@@Coolengineer30 makes sense thanks! Didn’t realize the steam demand was that high during the maneuver.
@matth5309 Oh, ya. Especially if the old man called down for full astern on both engines. It gets really hairy then. I used to work on the Badger for a couple of years as an engineer and every now and then we would get an extreme order like that.
@@Coolengineer30 funny that you mention the Badger. I took a trip on it in August 2022. It’s what started my fascination with steamships and the carferries especially. I’ve always been into all things mechanical and couldn’t get enough of the ship. How did you like working on the Badger? I’ve been trying to get hired on there in an entry level engine room position but can’t get much of a response from them.
A home for the oldies.
When it's done ferrying, she would make a great yacht!
Excellent video...always wondered what happened to the Vacationland.
I keep forgetting to ask when I watch these videos on steam ships. Is the water supply for the boilers carried on the ship, or is water drawn from the body of water the ship is in? Excellent video. It was really cool how the telegraph machines are used, and how the crew interacts to keep the ship moving, or to slow and stop the ship.
On ships I worked on we distilled our own boiler water, not sure if that is done on the Badger.
The Badger has, or at least had a water softener for boiler feed water. Potable (drinking) water is supplied by hooking up a fire hose in Ludington to fill the tanks.
And remeber kids, you can still ride the Badger today!!
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The wife and i took your boat to wisconsin and it was great... lol wisconsin did not have good pizzas but we loved the trip and recommend the trip to anyone with about a thousand dollars and some tome off work.
It is quite strange that Wisconsin doesn’t have good pizza considering the it’s the land of cheese.
The Badger, The Spartan, The City of Milwaukee, The Atkinson, The Ann Arbor (The Viking), Pere Marquette, The City of Saginaw, The City of Flint, The City of Midland...
I'm impressed that a recipricating steam engine can be so docile and easy to control.
Took the Badger from Ludington to Manitowoc about 2 weeks ago. Can’t say enough good things about the entire experience!
Yep. The Great Lakes are no joke!
How many knots? I missed the point of why passengers need cabins?🤔
He stated 18mph so a little over 15 knots. The longest route, Milwaukee to Ludington, took approx 6hrs so not sure why you'd want a cabin
I sailed on the Badger while it was still transporting rail cars. I believe it was the GBW that provided the means to load the ferry with rail cars at that time. I have traveled on the Badger many times but it was the late 1980s or early 1990s when I sailed on her with the rail cars. I do not know when they stopped shipping rail cars but I imagine it was the early or mid 1990s.
When did it stop working with the railway and why? Today, we can see traces of the tracks on Badger's deck, and many cars are loaded over them.
I wheeled/helmed these vessels when I was a young man. The last time I took the bull bye the horns was in June, 1978. The SS Badger 43, Ludington to Milwaukee and back! I also wheeled/helmed the SS City of Green Bay (ex SS Wabash) working for the Ann Arbor Railroad. All vessels were built to break ice in the Winter months.
¿How many passengers can in carry? ¿What is your maximum speed?
Many WWII escort carriers and other warships had Skinner Uniflow engines. It could be that these engines were from a scrapped warship.
They were built for her.
WAS THAT A FUCKING BREAKFAST DRIVE-IN AT THE BEGINNING??
Dude sounds like my dad!!!
Happy, civilized, regular, hard-working, real actual people! That is what we used to have before the rabble rousers destroyed it!
Notice how this is yet another historical record of the once proud and great white civilization that is now in 2022 well in the process of being undermined and dismantled.
Thom Hawley, one of the narrators is my first cousin.
Well done, cool stuff
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In God Prayers they will once again ship Railway cars again by boats
Thank you for sharing this excellent video. I am writing the sequel to my novel Finding Cristina (yes, no "h" in Cristina!) and needed a good idea how steam engines work.
It was shown in a diagram but the chief engineer did not mention that these engines are Steeple compound engines. Each crank has two pistons. The top one is small in diameter, it takes steam at boiler pressure when on full speed. The lower piston is much larger in dia. And is on the same reciprocating piston rod, traveling same distance and speed. It is called the low pressure piston and it receives the exhaust steam from the HP PISTON. Each piston is double acting so they produce power going up and down. There gland seals at the bottom of the cylinders. I saw these engines however I worked on a Skinner Unaflow 4 cyl engine that was not steeple compound. It had high pressure pistons only, less efficient. It ran 118-120 rpm. At full speed. Can not remember if the Badger engines are 4 or 5 cyl each. Considering the horse power they mentioned I would say 5 cyl ea.
@@henrytupper6959 , the steeple compound engines are 4 cylinders.
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Is the sparring still running the lake and bake
Nice, no shots of the motor? 😎
This must have been produced in 1993. Badger was first put into service in 1953.
Still running during the season.
It was made probably around 1996 or so. Chuck Cart wasn't the Chief engineer until then. Bob Roach was Chief in 1995 but was sick and died in 1996 if I remember correctly.
You can also see the SS City of Midland through the pilot house windows as the ship is performing the turn for docking. It was towed away in 1997