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Greetings fellow lakeboat lovers! I'm Ken Larsen, a model
railroader and Great Lakes
industry enthusiast. I am currently constructing an HO scale
model of a steel mill, complete
with blast furnaces and, yes, an ore boat. The ore boat model,
named the "Victoria", is a
fictional model painted in Cleveland-Cliffs livery. You may view
pictures of her at:
http://www.trainweb.org/ironrail/oreboat.html
Even though my current home is in Maryland, a part of me still lives
in the Detroit suburb
of Farmington where I grew up. My father used to take me
sailing in his 16-foot "rebel" on
Lake St. Clair every summer weekend during 1966-67, allowing me to
see a lot of ship
traffic. I still can remember the chart on the sail club
lounge's wall that showed all of
the different stack markings for the various U.S. and Canadian laker
fleets. I also made
several tours of Ford's River Rouge facility in Dearborn; it was
here that I became hooked
on steelmaking.
-Ken L.
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