A couple Canada geese slide in for a landing.
The Mute swan doing a bit of preening.
A good look at those big wings.
We then went to Point Park in the city of Ashtabula, Ohio. It sits way atop of a hillside, and you can look down on the huge railroad yard of coal cars coming up from down South to be emptied at this facility. There is also a Marine and Coast Guard museum. It doesn't open till Memorial Day.
This is the front of the museum.
All the loaded coal cars are in the big yard to the right of this shot. They are then unloaded and the coal is put on a conveyor belt and carried across the river to a mammoth coal pile. It is then loaded into freighters and shipped on the Great Lakes. No freighters there that day.
This is the area where the coal comes off the conveyor belt and is piled into these huge mounds.
There is a very large dozer on top this coal pile pushing the coal over the edge.
On the back of the museum is the front portion of a tug boat.
Also from our vantage point we can see the draw bridge that will allow all the big boats access from the harbor out to Lake Erie.
I still have more pictures, and I'll put them on sometime this next week.Have a great Sunday all.
