Behold the Mighty Meteor!

Behold theSS Meteor, at 119 years old the sole surviving whaleback freighter, and now in Superior, WI, moored in, um, mud apparently. (I actually took these pictures a couple weeks ago, but haven’t got around to looking at them till now.) My interest in anachronistic technology led me to view this glorious Victorian creation, which actually served on the Great Lakes from 1896 until 1969. The whaleback ships were invented by uncanny Gaelic engineer Alexander MacDougal, who built them on his ow...