Anybody from Rhode Island ever see the LV tug "Wilkes Barre" in a park there?

[Anonymous]

Back in 1984,I was in Rhode Island,somewhere near a huge bridge that crossed a bay.I was bicycle touring,and it was 20 years ago,so the details are a little fuzzy,but I remember seeing the Lehigh Valley Tugboat "Wilkes Barre" there,in a park,behind a fence,Anybody remember it,is it still there?[Am I getting senile and hallucinating???....LOL!!!]

[dragonriversteel]

Here's a link that might help.

http://www.tugboatenthusiastsociety.org/Pages/Archive/ny.htm

Patrick

[Anonymous]

Thanks,but I've already been to a lot of those websites,there's no info on it. They seem to only deal in in service tugs.This one was buried in dirt up to the water line,nowhere near water.

[btransue]

If you want some info on the tug - I found the following link to magazine articles regarding tugs.

http://www2pb.ip-soft.net/railinfo/car-floats/nyccf-magazines.html
There appears to have been a series of articles on railroad tugs in this magazine.

[M-36] Railroad Model Craftsman, April 1983
Page 68 thru 73, Article & photos, "Railrad tugs: Part I" by Preston Cook.
Page 68 - LV tug Bethleham headed towards Brooklyn just after being delivered in 1949.
Page 69 - LV tug Lehigh at the Jakobsen Shipyard in Oytser Bay, NY in 1949.
Page 69 - LV tug Hazleton in a delivery shot in 1949.
Page 70 - LV tug Wilkes-Barre in two shots.
Page 71 - LV tugs Lehigh, Cornell, Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre aligned in echelon off the Battery.
Page 70-71 - line drawings of the LV tug Wilkes-Barre in HO scale.
Page 72 - the stern of the LV tug Wilkes-Barre.
Page 73 - the LV tug Wilkes-Barre near the Cunard Liner Queen Elizabeth (I).
Page 72-73 - bow and stern line drawings of the LV tug Wilkes-Barre in HO scale
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Brad

[Anonymous]

I've seen that websight also.I have info on the tug's past,and I remember seeing it 20 years ago.What I'm asking is if anybody ever saw it where I saw it,in a park in Rhode Island,behind a fence,and what happened to it,or if it's still there.I just looked at a map,I THINK it was near Saunderstown,by the Plum Point bridge.