A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....2

[chuck]

Nice whale back freighter. Ore carrier? Picture taken at Erie, PA?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nice whale back freighter. Ore carrier? Picture taken at Erie, PA?

No idea; just liked the work crew gathered for a photo.

[chuck]

The ship design was pretty much limited to the Great Lakes, mainly ore and grain (bulk cargo). Given Erie is PA's only city with access to the Great Lakes I assumed that's where the picture originated. Of course it may not be in PA at all. Nice picture.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The ship design was pretty much limited to the Great Lakes, mainly ore and grain (bulk cargo). Given Erie is PA's only city with access to the Great Lakes I assumed that's where the picture originated. Of course it may not be in PA at all. Nice picture.

Erie is a good guess; card was not labeled as to scene location. I'm slowly going through a folder of cards that lack a link to a location.

[J. S. Bach]

I like the inner support of the "half-axle" mounted on the steel beam under the crane/bucket hoist. Interesting idea to model.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I like the inner support of the "half-axle" mounted on the steel beam under the crane/bucket hoist. Interesting idea to model.

Yes! Quite an interesting bit of engineering. Not a through axle..... Solves shorting out issues!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[chuck]

Cabbages? A sauerkraut factory?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Cabbages? A sauerkraut factory?

No idea.

[rogruth]

Cabbages? A sauerkraut factory?

Chuck,
You can see what's on those cars? Wow! I can't tell with a magnifying glass.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Cabbages? A sauerkraut factory?

Chuck,
You can see what's on those cars? Wow! I can't tell with a magnifying glass.

My guess was some sort of ore in those jennies along with that crane.

[chuck]

"Ore cars" aren't. Those are wooden carts sitting on small flat cars.

Objects in them are roughly round and about the size of a volley ball (too big to be potatoes). I don't know of too many "ores" that are light enough to be piled that high and moved around in wooden carts. Talc came to mind but it's not commercially mined in Pennsylvania.

The "plant" they are near doesn't appear to be a smelter, at least not like any I've seen.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

"Ore cars" aren't. Those are wooden carts sitting on small flat cars.

Looks a lot like the narrow gauge ore jennies that were wooden up top and had metal frames that tilted to unload.

Objects in them are roughly round and about the size of a volley ball (too big to be potatoes). I don't know of too many "ores" that are light enough to be piled that high and moved around in wooden carts. Talc came to mind but it's not commercially mined in Pennsylvania.

Maybe it's phosphate.......or sugar beets.......or adolescent basketballs............and have no idea where this is......maybe not in PA

The "plant" they are near doesn't appear to be a smelter, at least not like any I've seen.

And, I've never seen a crane with that sort of apparatus used to unload cabbage......

It's an interesting picture.

[chuck]

Crane may not be being used for loading/unloading whatever is in the carts. There is a second line of empties in the background just coming out of the building.

They could be sugar beets except that's not a common crop in PA. The first commercial crop was harvested in 1969 in Harrisburg area. Of course if this isn't PA, all bets are off.

[Rufus T. Firefly]