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Blast furnace conveyor system.

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Piles of coal, slag, and limestone(?) at the mill.

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Blast furnace.

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It's hard to read in the photo but this tugboat's home port is Grosse Pointe Farms. Grosse Pointe Farms is an upscale suburb north of the city. This may be someone's idea of a joke.

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Blast furnace at the Severstal River Rouge steel mill where we met the boat. This used to be owned by Ford.

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Merry Christmas.

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This is where we parked the car. They sell charts, books, deliver mail to ships, and run the pilot boat. Not exactly in the nicest part of town but they have a fenced lot...

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This appears to be an emergency steering station at the stern of the boat. I never asked about this, not sure if it still works.

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Approaching the Severstal steel mill.

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Scrap steel.

(25994) Computer in the guest house. There is a wireless access point out of the picture to the left. This access point is bounced off t

(25815) HyperLink Tech "Backfire" wifi antenna

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This bell never rang. Probably a good thing.

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Disembarking.

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Unloading.