At at time when most people are asleep a deckhand drops down onto the dock around 4 in the morning
as the
Jackson arrives at AK Steel's Dearborn Works dock on the Rouge River.
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A deckhand waits his turn to take the bosun's chair, watching what appears to be
the ghostly figure of the next man to be landed on the dock.
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Arrival at the Rouge in darkness is like entering the forge of the gods.
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The sun is just coming above the horizon as the
Jackson ties up to the dock.
Once the ship is in the right location on the dock the unloading will start.
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The contrast created by the morning sky shows a world of steel pipes, trusses and conveyors.
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Looking forward at the
Jackson at the dock.
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The ore loaded in Marquette is unloaded onto the storage pile.
It takes about five hours for the crew to empty the boat.
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A horizon full of minaret shaped smokestacks rise above the roofline of an building from an older era.
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Blast furnace shapes from the dockside.
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The ship's unloading boom holds the conveyor belt carrying the
iron ore from the cargo hold and out onto the storage pile
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The ship's unloading boom holds the conveyor belt carrying the
iron ore from the cargo hold and out onto the storage pile.
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The conveyorman checks the flow of pellets from the
Jackson onto the
storage pile.
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A shrinking pile of iron ore means the cargo hold will be empty soon.
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The
Herbert C. Jackson backing into the turning basin after delivering 22,643 GT of iron ore.
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