Incan Superior, Duluth, MN; June 9, 1992
For 18 years beginning in 1974 the Incan Superior rail car ferry operated between Superior, Wisconsin, and Thunder Bay, Ontario. It was operated for the Canadian Pacific to provide a quicker alternative to the CP's circuitous route between these two points. Five tracks on its deck could hold 26 fifty-foot long rail cars.
The ferry slip in Superior was just west of the Midwest Energy Terminal where BN unloaded unit coal trains for transloading into Great Lakes vessels. The Incan was a nice little diversion between rail action as it could be "chased" across the harbor between the ferry slip and the Aerial Lift Bridge at the east end of the harbor. This view is from the point just east of the Aerial Bridge showing the outbound Incan heading into Lake Superior.
Incan Superior, Duluth, MN; June 9, 1992
For 18 years beginning in 1974 the Incan Superior rail car ferry operated between Superior, Wisconsin, and Thunder Bay, Ontario. It was operated for the Canadian Pacific to provide a quicker alternative to the CP's circuitous route between these two points. Five tracks on its deck could hold 26 fifty-foot long rail cars.
The ferry slip in Superior was just west of the Midwest Energy Terminal where BN unloaded unit coal trains for transloading into Great Lakes vessels. The Incan was a nice little diversion between rail action as it could be "chased" across the harbor between the ferry slip and the Aerial Lift Bridge at the east end of the harbor. This view is from the point just east of the Aerial Bridge showing the outbound Incan heading into Lake Superior.