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    The ship is a bulk carrier with a helopad. Those pipe-like things may enclose conveyor belts used for loading bulk cargo (wheat, corn, coal, ore, etc.) on ships. The waterway looks like an excavated channel with riprap on the far bank. The steeply pitched shed roofs suggest the buildings are in a snow zone. Can’t tell if this scene is domestic or foreign, but the vegetation (tho hard to see clearly) is consistent with the Pacific Northwest, so I’m gonna guess Port of Kalama.

  2. 2

    I’m not sure what’s above the bank across the channel, but there appears to be a staircase going down to the water with a small ranch house directly behind it, and somehow I feel that’s an important clue. This sure looks like Columbia River landscape.

  4. 4

    Looks like handymax sized geared bulk carrier – unfortunately there are thousands of them. Haven’t identified the livery yet

  5. 5

    It’s a 4 hatch handy, with whirlie’s. Cargo appears to be either Salt or cement. Appears that the crane is either unloading or leveling cargo. I suspect that it is unloading. There are no loading pipes( Bueller’s etc) at that dock.

  9. 9

    @6 Nothing that big gets above Bonneville Dam anyway. I’ve no clue, so someone else gets it this week.

  14. 14

    I’m looking in Louisiana right now – though anywhere on the Gulf coast, or as someone above note, intercoastal waterway, could work. Great Lakes, too. There are SO many little nooks and crannies like where that ship is berthed. I feel like I’m missing a big clue, because otherwise it’s a mindless needle-in-haystack search, and I know Lee wouldn’t do that to us!
    I’m not convinced the roof are all that peaked, indicating the snow zone as RR suggested (though it seems that RR is ALWAYS right, in my experience) ;)

  15. 15

    looks like water on the other side of the railroad at the top of the picture. shipping canal and salt flat or water separated by a railroad. hmmmm.

    not erie, suez or panama canals, that i can tell.

    i think the “low end” construction on the buildings is a clue – metal barn sheds, not a major port facility.

    the pitch of the roof may not mean snow – it may have to do with the auger system. you have to have the right pitch to let gravity work.

    a 4 hatch handymax for bulk. could be anywhere, but I’m liking the Gulf idea, LibSci.

  18. 18

    I looked around Sacramento a bit, though not completely comprehensively, and didn’t see it (obviously).

    Oh yeah – Lee said is wasn’t on a river – and I think that leaves out the whole Sac delta system (though I guess SF Bay, San Pablo bay might still count.

  22. 22

    wes – i buy that. it seems that these suckers tend to be where there’s a good deal of sand dredging or industry with a need for sand (ship painting, sand blasting, etc)

    Lee: where are ya dude? Oh, for the love of a clue!

  24. 24

    Hmmm…
    West coast, obviously, but maybe gulf coast of Florida, if Lee is evil ;)

  26. 26

    That was my first thought also – upper SF bay, Valejo, up by the mothball fleet, Martinez, etc.

  29. 29

    Oh – somebody mentioned salt – what about the Morton salt ponds at the south end of SF bay? I didn’t see it there, but may have missed it

  30. 30

    there are two of these that I see around here. both near Glacier Northwest plants – one in oregon and one on the duwamish.

    i have one word for you: cement! ;)

  31. 31

    Puddy thought the Erie Canal system but up close the pictures turn black and white.

  33. 33

    Not all of the canal is “small” Wes. Some of it was integrated into the natural river system

  34. 34

    Port Sutton, FL. East side of Tampa Bay. Far more urban than immediate context suggests … and far shorter “canal” than we were thinking.

    LINK

  35. 35

    … and what I thought was a dark wetland on the other side was actually a pile of coal or something.

  39. 39

    @37 christi s
    Yes he’s evil. But so’s the new bing maps version; the link I posted @34 uses the “classic” version, a little easier to control the viewpoint.

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