FROM THE ARCHIVES: On this day last year, Dann Marine tug Sapphire Coast ran light down the North River, passing Hoboken’s Lackawanna Terminal. Sapphire had been up in Yonkers, assisting with sailing a dry bulk barge at the sugar refinery there and was returning to the harbor. The sugar plant had operated in Yonkers for over 100 years but closed permanently at the end of 2025. We continue to see Sapphire on the river though occasionally moving cement barges to and from the cement plant further north in Ravenna, NY, but a year later finds her docked at a cement terminal in Boston with a cargo brought up from Baltimore. The Lackawanna terminal is one of two rail/ferry terminals still standing on the Hudson River and the only one still operating as a transportation facility. It was built as the terminus of the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad and later served the same role for Erie Lackawanna after the merger and then for the nationalized Conrail and now NJ Transit. Ferry service ended in the 1960s but resumed under NY Waterway in the 1980s. The historic looking tower is actually a replacement built about 20 years ago as the original was removed in the 1940s.