Edwin H. Gott - Pink Turns to Blue in Frigid Two Harbors

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Here is the Edwin H. Gott arriving at Two Harbors, Minnesota at sunrise on January 12, 2026. She was arriving to load taconite (iron ore) pellets at the Burlington Northern dock for delivery to Gary, Indiana. This was to be the Gott's final load of the season. After unloading her taconite at Gary, she made her way to Toledo, Ohio to begin her two-month winter layup. Two Harbors would have one more visitor, the American Spirit, before her season was also over a couple of days later.

This was one of the prettiest visits I made to Two Harbors for the shipping season, with great colors in the sky from the clouds and pre-dawn light. Indeed, I was almost upset to see the sun rise on this scene, as I was enjoying the contrast between the pink skies and the blue waters. But the rise of the sun also gave everything a golden glow, so it established a different atmosphere that was just as scenic.

I would have included a little more of the Gott's docking, but sadly the sun went behind a cloud for about 30 minutes (right after the last shot you see in this video), and none of the footage I shot after that point looked nearly as nice. I didn't want to end the video on a bummer, with a scene that had bad lighting. So it made sense to just cut it off after the Gott made her sweeping turn and was pulling in towards the dock.

The 1004-foot Edwin H. Gott was launched in 1978 and was the eighth out of thirteen 1000-footers built for the Great Lakes. She is powered by two MaK diesel 8-cylinder engines outputting a total of 19,600 bhp, making her the most powerful vessel on the Great Lakes. She has a cargo capacity of 74,100 tons. She was originally built with a short shuttle boom for self-unloading (like her sister the Speer), but that limited the number of ports where she could unload. At the end of the 1995 shipping season she was refitted with a traditional self-unloading boom. At 280 feet, her current boom is the longest on the Great Lakes, allowing her extra reach when unloading her cargo.