Cleveland lift bridge with the ugliest tub on the Great Lakes and a bottle train

[@NSNorfolk]

And there is the Superior Avenue Bridge in the background and a great shot of the Terminal Tower at 7:16.... I so miss home.....

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you!

[@patkirchner1443]

Still looks like some alien ship out of a Star Wars movie😝

[@Jim-hw1xr]

Those kayakers sure are paddling away. And what's wrong with that tug. It's cute.

[@shariys1]

Nothing wrong with the tug. It's that gawdawful barge!

[@suzannemarienau2760]

Nothing wrong with the barge either.

[@rdhd99]

Born on Cleveland but I've never been there I should go one day

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Wendy park is worth a visit, nice safe place to watch boats, trains, planes, fish or people watch. When we go it’s an all evening thing.

[@christopherd2100]

I'm sure she handles her duties neatly. And I should mention that for all the ugliness of the larger vessel, the tug is sharp looking. *Edit, the one in front.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Yes the G rugs are a great looking fleet! Most of the Grand River Navigation boats look good but this one is a very utilitarian workhorse!

[@sugaredrat3747]

She may be ugly, but she is still a beautiful asset for the company. She was the only ship I saw one day, several years ago. Different tug and fresh paint

[@RioJudy]

I think Scott’s title to this makes him the shitbag of year. He’s likely some old guy who has no clue of what’s valuable in life and what isn’t. He isn’t.

[@fishfuxors]

Ashtabula looks like Darth Vaders pleasure boat.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Lmao

[@clevelandrailfan9776]

I always love eating at shooters that restaurant over there and watch the trains

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

I need to take my wife there sometime

[@Smilecollector120]

I love in a train town and a big fan of trains. The bottle train was a 1st for me

[@rosebelle3148]

The tugboat was just getting a head start on the Christmas spirit with the color scheme.

[@samonator6546]

The owners of those tugs have a very creative color scheme. They are easy to spot!

[@jimsonbrown9768]

Wish someone would do a video on some of these vintage tugs.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

I would like to if I lived closer to the lakes

[@KH-uc6pj]

Late reply, but here is a video from the Great Lakes Towing Company (owner of the red and green tug in this video) about their tugs over the last 120 years! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGGXnoGglJyahpo

[@kelvintorrence5994]

That big grey ship is a floating dry dock ship I believe

[@jessejaymes8684]

It’s called an Articulated Tug and Barge or ATB.

[@aspiceronni4462]

No shit I thought Duluth had the only aerial lift bridge.

[@mikeabbey8301]

love the look of great lakes tugs

[@railpast]

Great video. Have to go there one day.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you

[@railpast]

I know the video is sped up in places but a lot of crazies out there on the water. :-)

[@ralphaverill2001]

Say "ugliest tub" ten times fast. Hah! I knew you couldn't! The ugliest tub is being hauled by a beautiful old tugboat.

[@caseylimbert266]

The only ugly tub I saw was the Nautica Queen

[@roylehew3164]

95 tankers, 2 engines the tankers must have been M.T.

[@peterstricker1484]

It’s so ugly it is actually beautiful.

[@jamesnemecky2823]

I've been on some rust buckets on the lakes, that vessel is the ugliest. Thank God for the tugs. They pulled us out of many jams on the lakes.

[@MrExionne]

The train passing on the bridge makes a sound like a great rap beat.

[@nora2344]

Yes 😊😊😊

[@Bobby-Love]

Rap?

[@eat_a_dick_trudeau]

I thought that as well!

[@WilmerCook]

She loaded!

[@danielsprowl1998]

Yeah the barge and tugs have nothing on the the old great lakes freighters.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Sure would have been nice to see the Manstee repaired instead of them buying the Ashtabula!

[@TOTALCAMARO]

She definitely not ugly she’s unique ❤

[@kdwaynec]

LOL We get 2½ minutes of a train crossing the bridge 1:23 at normal speed, then it gets cranked up to high speed when the bridge and the boats start moving. Otherwise, fine video.

[@Geminifan20]

Don't call it ugly

[@andybrugman3619]

its not a ugly tug at all

[@loubc2515]

The big boat doesn't want to go Little boat says you have to 😀

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Haha

[@connieembury1]

The first train had some unusual cars on it. What are they?

[@scrapbmxrider16]

Hauling molten steel from a steel manufacturer to where it will be poured into useable steel

[@piktureit]

Wow your camera is amazing

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you

[@piktureit]

My pleasure

[@HFD51719]

I want that green and red tug

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

You can buy one I’m sure!

[@vernwallen4246]

I went to Cleveland once and it was closed,never went back.Wahahahaha.

[@phillipgarrow2297]

What was in those weird looking railroad cars at the beginning of the video

[@amandahuggandkiss2998]

Bottle train coming out of the steel mill. Molten steel in each bottle heading for the pour.

[@DruSteel69]

Very cool! 👍🏽

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you!!

[@PrenticeBoy1688]

I couldn't make out the name of the pusher tug or the barge. ATB setup, I assume?

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

The tug is the Defiance and the barge is the Ashtabula.

[@PrenticeBoy1688]

@@ScottTaipaleRail I should've known. I don't think the Defiance has pins ... so this would be a notch setup.

[@judyschroeder9840]

Love the tug!!

[@ArchTeryx00]

What's the big beast used for? Bulk hauler?

[@epistte]

Its likely hauling taconite(ore pellets), limestone, gravel or salt

[@jstoli996c4s]

The Buffalo River in downtown Buffalo isn't quite as beautiful or functional as this, but thank goodness for Canalside and the Naval Park.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

I have not been to buffalo yet

[@jstoli996c4s]

@@ScottTaipaleRail I highly recommend it, especially during the summer or fall. Buffalo has come a long way in the past 10 years.

[@BessemerLakeErie902]

Nice video! How do you access the bridge?

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you. Get off Rt 6 at Edgewater park, turn east and go past the marinas and sewer plant. Wendy park is back there and it is public access. 24 hours a day if you’re there “fishing”

[@BessemerLakeErie902]

+Scott Taipale Lol. Thanks for the info. Also, is the first train from the Cleveland Commercial Railroad?

[@BessemerLakeErie902]

+Scott Taipale Ok. Thanks! Also, what railroad was featured in the beginning and do you know of it’s schedule by chance?

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Flats industrial railroad in Cleveland

[@pwilliable]

Looks like a lot of Ohio Oil

[@jordanwilkison895]

cool i like the old ship to

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thanks

[@brianroberts815]

Should call this video A long, long train on a bridge. Ant that Towboat isn't really ugly. Pretty typical actually.

[@MrSTOUT73]

... you must really like to watch train cars.

[@dooleyhiggins3674]

Anyone have an idea what GLT charges ($) to tow a job like this?

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Interesting question that I don’t have the answer to

[@shariys1]

Now that is a cool bridge ... and you're right, that old girl ain't too pretty! 😂😂

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Hopefully next time I go there NS runs a few more trains and there will be a more attractive laker!

[@shithead_garage]

An attractive laker would be the Edward L. Ryerson, but she’s currently in permanent lay up sadly.

[@daddyrabbit835]

You called it... that thing is pretty horrible to look at. It kind of looks like the Manitoulin. It makes the John D. Leitch look good.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Some barges look good but this is frankentub

[@shariys1]

@@ScottTaipaleRail 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣

[@argtv1007]

@@ScottTaipaleRail frankentub excellent thank you for the laugh Sir.

[@TOTALCAMARO]

Ugly tug? SHe’s not ugly lol

[@shariys1]

You ain't a-kiddin' about ugly! What does that rusty old thang haul besides rust?

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Salt and gravel mostly

[@shariys1]

No wonder it's rusty ... 😉

[@netrhyda8761]

Agreed!! Ugly as can be!! But a nice video. ;)

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you!

[@Lauramv1]

*tug*

[@johnhurd6243]

Tub... boat.... the big grey thing

[@orionharmon6017]

People on their boats on the great lakes just doesn't know where do they wanted to go, they keep coming back to the Cuyahoga Norfork Southern lift bridge. This probably makes the bridge operator in his drawbridge exhausted because apparently he maybe getting sick and tired of letting these boats in and out of the flats east bank. He just wanted to keep the lift bridge down for once because their could be Norfolk Southern trains approaching that's heading their way. 👉🚂🚋🚃🚋🚃🚋🚃

[@johnhurd6243]

English is hard.

[@orionharmon6017]

@@johnhurd6243 Well not for me, english is easy and other languages are difficult is speak into it.