LIRR
Tugs n' Floats |
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LIRR tugboat "Patchogue" pushing loaded car float in NY Harbor - Boxcar roads are: ACL watermelon, C&O, GA, and SRR. 07/02/32 (Percy Loomis Sperr photo, Dave Keller archive) LIRR Tug with two loaded LIRR carfloats - East River, Brooklyn, NY Zoom view NE from Williamsburg Bridge 9/14/1932 (Sperr-Keller) |
LIRR Tug Patchogue guiding a car float in NY Harbor (zoom) 7/02/1932 (Sperr-Keller) |
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Meitowax with barges "on the hip", or alongside at East River Bridge 8/1960 |
LIRR Tugboat "Meitowax" pulling two loaded LIRR car floats in NY Harbor 4/23/1939 - (Percy Loomis Sperr photo, Dave Keller archive)
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When you push a barge backwards (usually because of the skegs it handles better in the harbor/river (can't do this outside) it is called heads to tails. This picture is not heads to tails, The stern of a carfloat is the end with the bumpers. Never seen a carfloat (or any piece of railroad owned marine equipment) with skegs either. Since carfloats don't have skegs, and both ends are raked, it does not make a difference which way they go, until they get to the bridge, in which case they obviously need to go bow out. Paul Strubeck Any time I got full of myself, I just have to remember the tug operation at LIC. The tugs handled the barges as you see them in the picture. They split the 2 at the float bridges, tied one off and bridged one. This is all done while the tides are running, up or down. Being a RR engineer was a great and rewarding job, but if you can imagine handling the trains, without tracks. That is REAL judgement. Ed Schleyer |
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LONG ISLAND RAILROADER - Floating the Freight | |||
Long Island Railroader - Floating the Freight June 1951 |
Long Island Railroader - Floating the Freight June 1951 Centerfold |
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LONG ISLAND RAILROADER - Tracks Across the Bay | |||
Long Island Railroader - Tracks Across the Bay November 1953 |
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Modeling LIRR Tug boats LIST "Semaphore" Feb 2000 Author: Mike Boland |
Modeling LIRR Tug boats LIST "Semaphore" Feb 2000 continued. Author: Mike Boland |
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LIRR Tug "Patchogue" LI City October 1944 Fred Weber photo, Archive: Dave Keller
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Tug Stuff | |||
The 2 NYNY&H tugs, Cordelia and Bumblebee (in the ad) were powered with Clevelands. They both made quite a few runs to 65th Street back in the day as they were NYNH&H main tugs. Info: Paul Strubeck |
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TUG NAME:
Registry #
Build Date Gladiator 86020 1888 Wrestler 30869 1889 Montauk 1895 Syosset 116895 1899 Patchogue 204384 1907 Cutchogue 271845 1918 Quogue 219419 1919 Talisman 22000 1920 Meitowax 226219 1926 Long Island 229322 1930 Garden City 240341 1941 Info: "Steel Rails to the Sunrise" Ron Ziel |
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"The MEITOWAX Off the Battery" watercolor by Steven Cryan |
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LIRR tugs operated at LI City 1958 - PRR KEYSTONE VOL 26 N0 2, by Nick Kalis |
LIRR Steel Car Floats 1/01/1954 - PRR KEYSTONE VOL 26 N0 2, by Nick Kalis |
03/25/2024