Seatrain Ships
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Doug Pillow
Back in1971 I was an Able Seaman Cardeckman on the Seatrain Texas. We were running New York(Edgewater NJ) TO San Juan Puerto Rico. Each cardeckman had a deck of railroad cars and one track on the main deck. Each watch you had to check the chocks on each car and the turnbuckles on the tiedownson on each car.They were tightened as needed. The cars were winched to the main elevator for hoisting to main deck where they were craned off. A very interesting ship,she was old but stout built pre World War Two. Doug |
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Charlie Vlk
All- Popular Science and Popular Mechanics are a source of many good railroad (freight car) images and articles. Fascinating look into the past when people were interested in how things worked and doing things with their hands. Quite a contrast to today’s “Popular Science” which is more of a catalog for Sharper Image with opinion pieces on technical and scientific issues. Charlie Vlk
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io
Seatrain Ships At the risk of going overboard on this topic, here are some links with more information, photos and diagrams on the Seatrain car ferries. The film is especially interesting. Bob Chaparro Port of Hemet, CA ++++ Popular Science Article, 1929 https://books.google.com/books?id=bCoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA53&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=true Popular Mechanics Articel, 1947 https://books.google.com/books?id=0N4DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA122#v=onepage&q&f=true Film: Seatrain New Orleans Film made in 1929. A lot of footage showing cars being moved inside the ship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBE9mzU_9OQ Loading Illustration https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Seatrain_Method.jpg Seatrain ferry loading 1956 http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3153401 The specialist crane hoist the cradle loaded with an ATSF boxcar from the Seatrain Louisiana Seatrain Loader, Belle Chasse, LA http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1846297 http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4624402 |
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Bob Webber
There's also an article in Warships International on some of
the ships' service in WW II - as can be imagined, they were excellent in
terms of moving heavy land vehicles (and landing same). If I'm not
mistaken, these were "chartered" by the Army - not the
Navy. The Army attempted to garner the whole fleet.
They also were used to haul freight cars to France and other overseas destinations.. This had the benefit of not having to knock down the built "kits" to be rebuilt ashore. And then..some of those cars had kits as loads within. At least some of the kits and built up kits were from Bessemer. There is also an image of a load of reefers no one of the ships..where THAT one is can not be recalled at the moment. At 10:39 AM 12/16/2019, you wrote: Seatrain Ships Bob Webber |
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Seatrain Ships At the risk of going overboard on this topic, here are some links with more information, photos and diagrams on the Seatrain car ferries. The film is especially interesting. Bob Chaparro Port of Hemet, CA ++++ Popular Science Article, 1929 https://books.google.com/books?id=bCoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA53&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=true Popular Mechanics Articel, 1947 https://books.google.com/books?id=0N4DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA122#v=onepage&q&f=true Film: Seatrain New Orleans Film made in 1929. A lot of footage showing cars being moved inside the ship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBE9mzU_9OQ Loading Illustration https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Seatrain_Method.jpg Seatrain ferry loading 1956 http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3153401 The specialist crane hoist the cradle loaded with an ATSF boxcar from the Seatrain Louisiana Seatrain Loader, Belle Chasse, LA http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1846297 http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4624402 |
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