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Now in the Erie Canal, Tender #3 was above E3,
BB 109 encountered an unidentified SPS,
Dragon dredge worked over in Crescent Lake,
an unidentified tender worked with two barges, one was QB #14,
Tuulen Tupa intrigued and I’ll tell you my understanding of that name at the end of this post,
At Fonda on the wall stood an SPS and
tug Lockport.
Will Van Dorp took these photos, and this is the end of this post.
And Tuulen Tupa is an excellent name for a sail boat, since in Finnish–at least–it means “wind hut.”
CB is obviously “Chicago bound.”
Neither Thomas D. Witte nor Clearwater here off Mount Beacon is that, but we were.
Meagan Ann headed south with
used and abused cars on
SMM 157 for the start of their last trip.
James William pushed several loads of building materials southbound.
Rebecca Ann turned around for her next trip.
Lisa Ann worked on the bulk heading project in Troy.
Frances moved a scow south, and
Ancient Mariner too moved on.
All photos by will Van Dorp.
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Last year I called it the same but without a date. See here . . here . . . and here for all the rest.
We’ll start and end with Dylan Cooper. Is anyone shocked by this tow tube behind the small boat?
Mary Alice returns with a dredge spoils scow.
Bear?
Durham and rebar?
Remnants of the TZ Bridge. . .
and “chewing” hard on other remnants.
Stony Point Light . . .
Tug Kristin Poling heads for Jones Point, and
Dylan Cooper moves toward the tanks in Newburgh.
All photos on Monday by Will Van Dorp.
1959 Dalzellera (launched in Staten Island in 1915 as CRRJJ Bethlehem) at the Bush terminal.
SS United States at its North River Pier. Thanks to my “group-sourcing” friends on FB, I’ve learned that tank was part of “the gas regulator at West 45th Street, part of a manufactured gas plant at that site, likely operated by Consolidated Edison. Erected late 1800’s and demolished in 1965. Some “good” stuff in that ground, part of the reason it’s still a parking lot.” Also, the sign says “gas heats best”, and after WW2, a large banner hung there proclaiming “welcome home.”
1957 East River looking toward Manhattan, and
farther south and west, showing the McAllister yard. Interestingly, the Singer Building, the world’s tallest building from 1908 to 1909, still appears in the photo above, just to the right of the Brooklyn Bridge Towers.
Many thanks to Steve munoz for these photos. You can see more of Steve’s vintage NYC and sixth boro photos here.
Compare the verticality of Evelyn Mae’s “windshield” in the photo below with the rake in the next photos. The photo was taken in April 1946.
The interior photo below shows the helm and the modified “raked” windshield.
Here Evelyn Mae gets some emergency work done at the floating dry dock at Matton’s in Cohoes in July 1947.
In 1959 Evelyn Mae made a trip to the Champlain Canal.
Here’s a closeup of the whole crew.
During that trip, she went up on the marine railway at Velez Marina in Port Henry.
Steve continues with his narrative: “Circe was a sister boat to Evelyn Mae. She is up on beach in Mill Basin Brooklyn after hurricane of Sept 1944. I was told by my uncle that these pics were taken after hurricane of 1946 or 1947, but apparently no hurricane hit NY in those years as per internet.”
“[This was] the last year the yacht club was at Mill Basin because the City of NY condemned the property so a builder could build lots of houses. So the vacant land in background of pic is now all houses. In 1955 the yacht club moved to Paerdegat Basin. My grandfather, Frank, was instrumental in obtaining a 99 year lease from the city as he was working at the NY Dock Company in Brooklyn and “knew” NY City Marine and Aviation people to help with obtaining the land. Midget Squadron Yacht Club is still there today (internet) as well as the Hudson River Yacht Club on the other side of Paerdegat Basin, which was there in the 1950s also.”
Many thanks to Steve for this look to the past, when summer boats” were just gorgeous wood.
More decades-old sixth born photos to come.
There are summer yachts, and then there are summer yachts of yore, those ones magnificent back then and then magnified by time. Evelyn Mae, platform for these posts from last month, is of this second and extraordinary sort. Photos and reminiscence come from Steve Munoz.
Enjoy the photos and I’ll tell you more later in this post and in subsequent ones.
These photos were taken at the Midget Squadron Yacht Club in Canarsie, Brooklyn.
When I asked Steve if he knew the manufacturer, here’s what he said: “The builder’s plaque at the steering stand said built by Fleetwing, Greenport, LI, NY, built 1928, 5 of them built as sisters. My grandfather bought it (used) after hurricane of 1947 when it was up on the beach.”
I search for “Fleetwing Greenport” brought up this Motorboating article from November 1928, p. 154.
A few pages farther on 159, I found this unrelated but stunning image for a GarWood advertisement.
Anyhow, a bit of farther searching tells me I’ve been inside the old Fleetwing Shipyard building in Greenport.
More Evelyn Mae to come. Many thanks to Steve for sharing these stories and images.
Over 11 years ago I did the first post called “tractors,” and back then I never imagined what the “2” in the series would consist of. It’s summertime–click here for soundtrack–and let’s see those tractors! By the way, most of the photos below I took in Canandaigua NY last week at the annual “steam pageant.”
This is mostly a photo post, but a little text. How many “crew” do you think are operating the tractor below? Answer at the end of this post.
Do you suppose someone had Mardi Gras in mind in parking these three?
Weights come in handy in pulling contests.
“Orchard” tractors must be inspired by Ferrari lines, or vice versa? Here’s a short history of McCormick-Deering.
Here’s a history of Birdsall Engine.
Before GPS-guided tractors, controls had style.
Here’s some history of the Silver King and related Plymouth industry, now all gone.
This is a dedicated piece of equipment; it can plow and nothing else. Rumely made this machine, which required a driver/engineer to operate and another person under the un-deployed sunshade to ensure the plowshares didn’t foul. For a massive Rumely plow demonstration, click here.
When the steam traction engine moves at less than 5 mph, technology can be this basic . . . re: steering for
this tractor.
And here’s the answer to the “crew” question posed before this top photo . . . he’s the engineer, she’s the driver, and baby–wearing her mud boots–is apprenticing.
Oh . . . but this blog is tugster, not tractorster, so let’s return from the detour. Here from a month ago are some more pics of the christening on the the sixth boro’s newest tractor tug,
an equally family event.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has left the boro and has scheduled a number of posts in a queue until it runs out . . . or I have some new photos and wifi to post them. If no posts appear for a few days, it just means I’m enjoying a wifi-free dimension, might even get trapped there. And since wifi is needed for the manual process of moving a wordpress blogpost to FB, look for me at tugster.wordpress.com, not on FB.
A few weeks ago I posted photos erroneously identified as Dorothy J, even though plain as day Robert IV was on the bow. That’s called distraction. But the photo below, plain as day, is Dorothy J. Here was Dorothy J on a foggy morning upriver almost two years ago.
Plain as day again . . . Rebecca Ann in the KVK eastbound, and again
in a photo from Bob Stopper, plain as day way up the Erie Canal just below lock E27 with a barge loaded with reef fodder. Here are previous photos from Bob.
Frances pushes a loaded scow westbound on the KVK, and
Janet D moves a spud barge over to the westside tower of the VZ Bridge, about to duck behind Sider Miami, previously known as Asian Prosperity.
Tug Ireland (renamed Hoppiness) has left the sixth boro for good
and is currently in the fresh waters of the Erie Canal, where I might see her soon.
Closing this post out, it’s an unnamed (to me) tug pushing a deck barge at the intersection of Hell Gate East River and the Harlem River. The bridges there are the Triborough and the Hell Gate.
Thanks to Bob for his photo from Lyons; all other photos by Will Van Dorp, who will be leaving the sixth boro tomorrow for a lot of weeks.
File this under “NOT Jay Leno’s Stanley Steamer,” but maybe Jay could get interested in the hybrid, part of which started life as a 1953 International 3/4-ton truck.
But it zoomed up, quiet as steamers are.
I would imagine my only problem driving this could be the distraction factor; I’d be watching the hot and gleaming moving parts.
An open fuel locker would be allowed here.
Enjoy the rest of the story.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who enjoyed an afternoon at the 59th annual running of the event. I first attended what must have been the first year of the show . . . way back in 1960.
Here are previous truckster! posts.
All photos in this post come from Paul Strubeck, who has started a blog here called vintagedieseldesign.
Mary H is the right size to serve the fuel storage in Newtown Creek, a renowned location in the sixth boro. Here are previous posts I’ve done there.
The first oil refinery in the US was sited here, and that industry fouled it, given attitudes at that time toward the environment and disposal of chemical waste.
Today a lot of commerce happens there from oil storage to scrap metal processing.
The creek has its advocates, these folks and others. At its headwaters lies Bushwick, not for everyone but vibrant in its own way. Here’s a post I did last fall after a tour on land and on the water of Bushwick.
Again, thanks to Paul for these photos.
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