The 1947-built, 630 ton crane, is shown in this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/telstar/2266107/ IIRC, it has since been dismantled after the deactivation of the Navy Yard; perhaps Tony can

I think a better alternative would be to scan the books into PDF files which could be loaned without the burden and danger of shipping the actual books. If each owner scanned their book and added the

Cranes are included in the wikipedia photo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_(BB-61) and there is some track and, on the center-left (double-click and enlarge the photo) are two railroad

That must have been one big crane (is it still there?) IIRC, an Iowa Class main turret weighed in at 2700 tons, the equivalent of a WWII destroyer. Each of the four Iowa Class sisters had three of

There is a photo of the Iowa in dry dock in San Francisco in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_(BB-61). That wasn't a routine stop. After repairs, I bet there was a good chance it was

Tony, Ah, yes, Hunter's Point. Once during the War, IOWA was drydocked at Hunter's Point, I'm sure I recall that. (She was so new, she didn't reach the Pacific until 1944, seems strange she'd drydock

Many of the railroad tracks serving the piers, drydocks, etc. at Hunters Point can be seen on Google Maps. Search for Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, CA, zoom in on some of the docks and

Gene, the original Intermountain O scale models represented the two types of seams. The IMWX HO scale model only represents the crimped seam and I think this was repeated in Intermountain's HO copy of

Mark Pierce wrote: All very true, Mark, but the questioner asked about places the IOWA might have visited. I would certainly doubt either Alameda or Mare Island on a routine basis, but perhaps

Richard, Richard, now you've gone and done it!!! I guess I shouldn't be surprised, though, as a resident of "Cali" (it just registered to me today that the News Media is apparently recognizing

I was trying to be careful not to identify the_ hopper.Some of the better hoppers,for the money, and again in my opinion ,are the Stewart and Accurail triples.The Tichy hopper is also pretty good.Some

Richard Townsend asks: No. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_of_Maine Time to return to frt cars. Mike Brock

Really off topic. Been there.? It is near Freeport.? The result of a glacier many moons ago. http://www.desertofmaine.com/ Rich Orr

Across the bay in Alameda there was also plenty of railroad track serving piers and warehouses servicing ships at the Naval base there (former home of the USS Enterprise). Also, there is still a good

I assume this is a reference to Mt. Desert Island, home of Acadia National Park. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, Oregon

Yea, verily. In 2005 this group discussed the Rutland's Alburgh (Vt.) coal trestle and related topics, including use of hoppers to move things other than coal. A search of the archive for "Alburgh

Rob-- Thanks for putting things into perspective and giving me a good chuckle in the process. Someday, I'd love to travel (as would my daughter) to your "West". All the best, Steve

Do you think time of the year had anything to do with off road hopper shipments? I would think that during the summer railroads would want to use their own cars. I saw a NYC steam era video on TV

Sure. According to Gehrke's "Freight Traffic Geography of the Seaboard Air Line", in 1950 much of the petroleum delivered to Florida got to Tampa by ship, was loaded into tank cars there. Al Brown,

So what do you think the answer is, Ben and Armand? As to "best models out there", it's no Kadee model but if you consider the price I think it was pretty good for the money, at least before