水 The abandoned Temiya line in Otaru now serves as a park, with the old yard housing the Otaru City Museum
木 Sapporo's Olympic Big Hill, 102m inrun on top of a 145m slope
金 Back to Hell! In terms of size, Noboribetsu Jigokudani blows its Beppu counterpart out of the water
土 Statue and old warehouse on the Otaru canal
日 My best shot of the famous Hakodate night view - it was so busy, I only saw the narrow city sight from the bus going down!
月 The train deck of the former Seikan ferry Hakkôda Maru at Aomori, followed by ramen and a private gongyo prayer with Noriki and Keisuke
火 Kabushima-jinja at Hachinohe, a shrine placed on a seagull breeding ground - that white sludge isn't snow!
BTW I am bitterly aware of the image quality drop-off. I'll do a follow-up post regarding the camera. It's OK, but it has its limits, and one thing I've never had before and didn't anticipate.
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As touched upon in previous Saturday Movie Nights, British Railways had a number of sea-going interests, the most obvious being the regular cross-channel ferries they ran between Britain and the Continent. This film looks at a typical day's operations, with emphasis on three services: the Dover-Boulonge service carrying motorists and their vehicles; the Dover-Dunkirk night ferry, carrying the London-Paris sleeper train over this part of the route; and the Zeebrugge-Harwich ferry, carrying wagons from all over Europe to the markets of London.
CN car ferry Lansdowne is pictured on the Detroit River at Windsor in May 1964, loaded with open autoracks full of new vans. Lansdowne was the last sidewheeler paddle boat operating on the Great Lakes, originally built in 1884 and taken out of service in 1970 when she blew the cylinder head of her port engine. After that, it had a varied life as a restaurant (with a pair of former Milwaukee Road Skytop Lounge cars on its deck) and was tied up at several US ports and allowed to deteriorate. She was scrapped in 2009. Photo by Bill Thomson.
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Having visited the museum ship Mashû-maru in Hakodate, I made sure to see the other preserved train ferry, the Hakkôda-maru, when in Aomori. In fact, it was the very next day! I took a morning boat, and had time to wander in the afternoon.
Like the Mashû-maru, the Hakkôda-maru is permanently moored where it would have docked when in service, out behind Aomori station, with the train tracks continuing only a few hundred metres before reaching the shore. Unfortunately, a big road bridge blocks the view of this layout from the station overpass, but at least we get a close-up of the linkspan, the ramp that was used to roll wagons on and off.
I was somewhat concerned that this ship would offer more of the same, but a lot of more work has been done to the Hakkôda-maru to allow visitors to get around. On this boat, the train deck was accessible, and they have a few wagons on display! The green floor has been added, and normally the rails would protrude, making it a risky place for the public; as mentioned before, passengers would not have been allowed here in service, they would have disembarked their train and boarded the passenger decks directly.
This is the kind of access I was hoping for on the Mashû-maru, and the Hakkôda-maru really scratched the Speyer itch, as the engine rooms and even the funnel can be explored! On the picture at the very top, you can just make out a few people standing on the funnel, now turned into a viewing platform. Going up there among the exhaust pipes was not what I expected, I thought the interior would have been gutted!
Of course, the passenger areas and the bridge are accessible on Hakkôda-maru, and the crew's quarters at the bow have also been preserved. Half of one deck is a local history museum, harking back to the Shôwa era and activities that happened around the Seikan ferry. So overall, the Hakkôda-maru is definitely the superior experience of the two memorial ferries, but if you're in Hakodate, show the Mashû-maru some love too - it's the only one with a horn!
Of course, both ships had a bell, which is still in commission. Giving a gentle ring feels like bringing a bit of life back to the vessel, or paying respect of sorts for its years of service.
Tiburon, California c. early 1900's before the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. The connection of Marin County to San Francisco and Alameda was by ferryboats, which ferried even trains! The Ukiah would be rebuilt to carry automobiles and passengers, be re-christened the Eureka, and is today preserved and on display in San Francisco.
