The Meteor is the world's last whaleback steamer -- not counting the shipwrecked ruins that litter the bottom of Lake Superior. Starting in the late 1880s, a 44-boat armada of the strange-looking freighters and barges with pig-nosed snouts hauled Great Lakes iron ore, grain, sand, gravel, fuel and even ferried cars from Detroit...The full story is at the StarTribune.
The 366-foot, 2,500-ton boat was hauled out of Lake Superior in the 1970s and beached on Barkers Island, where it's open to the public for summer tours starting this weekend...
"History wasn't much fun back in high school, but when you grow up, you realize just how important something like this is...."
Update: The video was apparently autostarting for some readers of this blog, so I've moved it to below the fold:
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