Pennsylvania Railroad
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PRR Carfloat Operations (Courtesy of Chris Baer) The main carfloat operations were at Jersey City (Greenville and Harsimus Cove in New York harbor. There was a lesser operation in the Camden-Philadelphia area. These used harbor tugs and either three track floats for the transfer of cars or two track floats with a center platform that served as floating freight stations and were placed at freight piers in New York City. The Cape Charles-Little Creek/Port Norfolk line across the mouth of Chesapeake Bay used heavier floats with crew cabins that were towed by ocean tugs with a cable. The Cape Charles operation has been the subject of a Keystone article a few years ago. The New York operation shows up in picture books like "Hudson to Horseshoe." LIRR operations, which resembled those of the PRR have also been the subject of Keystone articles. |
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| PRR Tug Overbrook | PRR Tug in NY Harbor | PRR Barge | Greenville, NJ Float Bridges | Norfolk Carfloat |
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| PRR Tug Harrisburg model | PRR Tug Lionel model | PRR Tug Brooklyn model | Carfloat model | |
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P.R.R. No.9 (American Harbor Tug, 1904) Photograph taken prior to World War I. The Navy acquired this tug from the Pennsylvania Railroad on 18 September 1917 and placed her in commission on 22 September as USS P.R.R. No.9 (SP-679). She was returned to her owner on 2 January 1919. She is sometimes listed as Penn R.R. No.9 and Pennsylvania R.R. No.9. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-civil/civsh-p/prr9.htm |
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Following photos courtesy of Dave West "They are all from about 1923 or so, man in black with pipe was my grandfather, Lester Arden Voorhees" |
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| Lester Voorhees with pipe in hand PRR tug 32 | Man in black is skipper Lester Arden Voorhees | Builders photo PRR tug 35 | PRR tug 32 off Statue of Liberty 1923 |
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| Bow of PRR tug 32 | /PRR tug Mercer | ||
Links
Delmarva and the Railroad Navy
PRR Harbor Facilities Port of Philadelphia
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