Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: badger

From SS Badger, backing into her home port.... This marvelously busy structure is Lake Michigan Carferry's docking facility at Ludington.

Cars arriving for loading onboard SS Badger in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Badger holds about 180 automobiles and over 600 passengers; she seemed to be nearly full this trip. The physical layout of the loading area makes it difficult for passengers to take a good photo of Badger at either end of the voyage, so we'll go with this one. A very grey day, at this point.

The Coast Guard sent this cute little boat to join us outside Ludington and follow us into the harbor. Doubtless on a Homeland Security mission. Looked like a fun mission. From the deck of SS Badger

A big truck. Looking down at Lake Michigan from SS Badger. There's a substantial gate, but it had been raised at this point as we were nearing the Ludington dock

From our little (one night) Ludington vacation, last July. Explored! #415 [10/21/13] Thanks, everyone!

SS Badger's sister ship, photographed from inside Badger as we disembarked at Ludington. Both ships were originally built to carry trains across Lake Michigan for the Pere Marquette Railway. Changing railroad practice made them obsolete; Badger's current daily trips carrying autos and tourists were originally a secondary function for PM's fleet. Actually, Spartan is less a sister at this point than a spare parts store, I gather. While Lake Michigan Carferries talks about putting her back into service, it's difficult to imagine when or how that will happen.