S.S. Badger
The S.S. Badger is the last coal-fired passenger steamship in operation in the United States. She has provided a fun, reliable and affordable shortcut across beautiful Lake Michigan for more than 60 years and has transported millions of passengers since her re-birth in 1992. In 2016 she received the nation’s highest historic honor when the Department of Interior officially designated the Badger as a National Historic Landmark.
Additionally, the Badger is extremely unique in that she is an NHL [not the hokey kind] that moves. The 410ft. S.S. BADGER can accommodate 600 passengers and 180 vehicles, including; RVs, motorcycles, motor coaches, and commercial trucks during her sailing season. Originally designed primarily to transport railroad cars, this grand ship and the people who serve her have successfully adapted to the changing world since she first entered service in 1953. More
The on-board video shown on the Badger as she plies Lake Michigan. Watch
You can reserve your place on the unique adventure this summer. Here
I enjoyed that. I sent the link to my son who is a marine engineer.
How cool is that. I would love to do that someday.
The reason the coal ash collection system was highlighted in that video was because there was a huge environmental outcry as the prior procedure for decades was dumping it in the lake. They were going to shut it down. That saves some people a lot of time and miles as you have to otherwise either drive up and through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula or down through Illinois and Indiana and then up through Michigan’s lower.
Very interesting documentary. When I saw that it was 14 minutes long, I wasn’t sure that I wanted to watch it, but the video was over before I knew it.
hell, I “Roll Coal” with my F-2Fitty every day. I am glad to see that a ship is still doing it Old Skoole.
FUCK the Left and their Environmental-Industrial Komplex
Keep it under the radar. We don’t want the GREEN loons finding out about the Badger.
Now we’re reduced to traveling in COAL-FIRED electric cars. 😉
I’ve ridden it every year for the last 30 years. It saves me from having to go through Chitcago with my travel trailer to get home.
Why don’t people just take the train, like to Hawaii?
Because the waves make a fast train very difficult to ride and a slow train takes a long time
It would be “cool” if someone bought the S.S. Badger and retrofitted it like:
https://magazine.washington.edu/feature/uws-liquid-nitrogen-automobile-could-put-electric-cars-out-in-the-cold/
Powering ships with hydrocarbons results in nasty pollution. Cryo-drives would eliminate pollution if the air liquification plants ran on clean energy like nuclear or geothermal.