Whiskey Island, Cleveland OH- Photo shows freighter being unloaded at the ore docks. This is done by Clam Shell Buckets. Each bucket will pick up from 12 to 17 tons of ore in one bite. The buckets load is weighed automatically, between 8 million...
Cleveland OH- Photo shows a clam shell bucket filled with ore after it has been drawn from a lake freighter hold and about to transfer to railroad cards. Such a bucket will pick up from 12 to 17 tons of ore in one bite. The buckets load is weighed...
View of a lake steamer bringing automobiles from Detroit MI to East 40th Street docks in Cleveland OH for distribution. Several different makes are in the cargo. Several boats carrying automobiles ply between Detroit and Cleveland.
Located in Morrisville, PA, this image "shows the giant steel plant rapidly taking shape. In the foreground is the water-filled slip where ocean going carriers will bring ore from foreign countries. Back of the slip, center, are unloading docks,...
General view of the docks at the Gary Works of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, largest US steel subsidiary at Gary, Indiana. Shows the hulett un-loaders in operation. The operator sits in a cab just above the grab bucket and controls the...
Hulett ore unloaders pick up 17 tons at a time-battery of four hoists at Pennsylvania Railroad docks in Cleveland relieve a big steamship of its cargo almost as quickly as a truck driver gets rid of a load of coal. Four moths almost as wide as a...
Unloading scrap at Port Henry, New York. Steam locomotive crane equiped with a electromagnet unloading a barge at the docks of the Port Henry blast furnaces
The old method of unloading ore carriers on the Great Lakes. Hand shoveling the ore into buckets to be lifted from the hold and transfered to the docks.
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad; 27 Water Street at the foot of State Street; Architect: Henry Hobson Richardson; Date built: 1887; On back: " The Railroad Station, New London, Conn., was built in 1887 and is interesting not only as the...
