HEY Mac. You got it bass ackwards. The caboose goes on the other end. I miss seeing a caboose at the end of a train...It just doesn't look right with out one.
The posts about the Edmund Fitzgerald made me think of the William P. Snyder, a 562' long ship that was originally built in 1906 to carry iron ore on the Great Lakes. She was eventually renamed the Medusa Challenger and converted to carry portland cement on the Lakes and often visited Chicago to drop off her bulk cargo to the dismay of road and pedestrian traffic. Read this article to learn why she seemed to have a jinx on Chicago's bridges- https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/...er-bridge-killer-barge-medusa-challenger.html They never wrote a song about the Challenger but there was a short film made about her, Joe Mantegna's first film. https://rarefilmm.com/2023/04/medusa-challenger-1976/
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