It's new life for a locomotive with a storied past. After nearly five years, restoration has wrapped up on the Daniel B. Harrington, a steam powered locomotive from one of Port Huron's early railroads. Not unlike many other things, project manager T.J. Gaffney tells WPHM the pandemic was to blame for several setbacks. "We were in the home stretch in 2020 when. everything shut down," said Gaffney. "It really, pardon the pun, took the steam out." The Harrington was the original locomotive of the Port Huron and Northwestern Railway and had been in long-term storage at the Port Huron Museum since the early 1990s. Restoration work on the locomotive began in 2018 at SC4 and is expected to be moved from the college to the Wrigley Center sometime in the coming weeks. "We needed to look to a new community partner and the Wrigley Center has been such an amazing project," said Port Huron Museum Community Engagement Director Andrew Kercher. "We are very
New life for an old light, which is also Michigan's oldest, and located right here in our own back yard. The Fort Gratiot Light Station was the recipient of a $25,000 grant from the Michigan Lighthouse Assistance Program this past year with matching funds coming from the Friends of the Fort Gratiot Light Station. St. Clair County Parks and Recreation Director Dennis Delor says the funds were used to refurbish rooms at the very top of the lighthouse. "These are the rooms where you can see the light flash and the room below it," said Delor. "This way when guests come up into the tower, they can see up into the lantern room and see also the ceiling, (which) is now exposed." The Michigan Lighthouse Assistance Program is funded through sales of specialty Michigan license plates. Both the lantern room and the watch rooms were restored to their 1930s appearance. Also receiving attention was the lighthouse keeper's duplex which last year received a new roof. The F