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There is a big difference between being practical and being negative, a problem that has plagued this island for many, many years. I am no longer involved with or represent any of the groups on LI, but I was there and did my share to put W93 back in service, I know what it needs, and its not practic...

W93 is 64 years old. Its tired. Yes, its operable, but its tired. The right side has some pretty significant damage as well from when it pegged the boulder and spun it around in Eastport?. Fact is, there is a reason Jordan stopped making air machines in 1960, there is newer, and better spreader tech...

The barges are on the hip, or alongside. Referring to it as "HIpping" is a new one though. Yes, when you push a barge backwards (usually because of the skegs (stabilizers as tool put it) it handles better in the harbor/river (cant do this outside) it is called heads to tails. This picture ...

The most common type burned residential, is of course Anthracite. The most common size was Range, which is a mix of nut and pea sized coal. This was done in the retailers yard, as coal came by rail one size at a time. Theres almost a dozen different sizes of anthracite. Another thing is the yard wou...

Scot, you can take LV tug Capmoore off the list. More updates a few threads down on there marine stuff.

You mean Twin Forks.

There was also a steam tug "Cornell", I was quite astonished to see the photo! Another steamer was the "Auburn" The diesel tugs "Cornell & Lehigh" replaced the "Auburn" and the "Black Diamond" as the Harlem River tugs. So, other steam tugs were a...

They cleared just fine. Now other things in the subway system.....

I will start a debate. The bearings dont matter. Its up to the Railroad. When C60 was moved to the transit authoirty it was subject to an FRA speed restriction (15mph) due to the bearings. Not to mention the lack of people on the railroad that knows how to deal with them anymore... When C60 made it ...

64627 was NYC was NYC 6312, built in 1946, Serial 811, Type A, Model 3-175. I have the full manual set/parks book for it.

Those tugs are a privately owned "collection"..just stashed there. Its rather sad some of them, alot of one of a kinds. I wont get into details.. The stone place is barge served by Buchanan marine (Tilcon). Each of those barges is 1500-2000T capacity, so they get alot of material in there.

We have moved her a few times with the Cornell. See: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25987785@N ... 850679067/

The New York Central board, is the nameboard from NYC Tug#26. Theres all kinds of neat stuff in there.

You can scratch the LV Capmoore off the list to. Atleast one of her spare gasket kits went to good use on the Cornell last night..

Having also just moved to Illinois (abit working in NYC still, dont ask), I agree with everything pooch says for once. Thankfully I am south of Chicago though.

Tun, you could not have said a truer comment.

Just a small Twin Forks update.. Spreader W93 is being restored to an as delivered appearance, renumbered back to 497499. A new black paint job is well in progression, however not much more will be done until warmness comes back. Were planning to do a full on restoration, all new oak windows and fra...