BW2M b

BW2M, being “backwards to Montreal” and here, it’s aggregate land.  Once it was about coal and brick coming down river and into the systems…. long before my time…. but today it’s earth products moving both ways.

You can’t have the supertall buildings of 57th etc. or the new streets and bridges without rock.

Frances stands by as the crushed Catskill is conveyed in.

 

Two loaded Witte barges wait for a prime mover

 

with what appears to be slightly different cargoes.

Meanwhile, Mister Jim pushes a barge load of sand upriver for projects there.

I’m not sure the function of this equipment.

Doesn’t this look like southern New Jersey sand?

Cement moves out and

down bound, while

salt comes upriver to nearly salt country from the ocean.

Later, Frances arrives in the sixth boro with barges from two different locations for materials for projects in the dryland boros

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who hopes he got all of that right.

 

Random Tugs 168

Summertime and the living is easy . . . and Sassafras is bringing fuel to MSC Marianna.

JRT Moran is preparing to assist MSC Busan out of its berth

Another section of Rockefeller University’s River Campus is shipping in aboard Witte 1401 moved by Emily Ann, 

passing Zachery and Jason Reinauer and

and Dean.

Crystal Cutler moves Patricia E. Poling westbound . . .

Brendan Turecamo assists MSC Busan back out

on its way

to Norfolk.

All photos taken yesterday by Will Van Dorp, who is leaving the area for a while.  Details tomorrow.