Industrial Railroads - Shipyard

[Mookie]

wonder if Kev has this figured out yet. Maybe he is still working on what Google is.

Stick your leg out a little further Kev - we are pulling on it!

Jen

[Mookie]

wonder if Kev has this figured out yet. Maybe he is still working on what Google is.

Stick your leg out a little further Kev - we are pulling on it!

Jen

[edblysard]

I know, I know...
They have Kevin with his Funk and Wagnels hardwired into...

[edblysard]

I know, I know...
They have Kevin with his Funk and Wagnels hardwired into...

[Mookie]

Jen and Mookie both laugh!

[Mookie]

Jen and Mookie both laugh!

[Modelcar]

....Jen, that would be a good question for them. Perhaps they would defer it to webcrawler.

[Modelcar]

....Jen, that would be a good question for them. Perhaps they would defer it to webcrawler.

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar

....Webdcrawler is the one I started with first but now I always turn to Google. I wonder who installs all the data in these inststruments.

[;)] Maybe ask Google?

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar

....Webdcrawler is the one I started with first but now I always turn to Google. I wonder who installs all the data in these inststruments.

[;)] Maybe ask Google?

[Modelcar]

....Webdcrawler is the one I started with first but now I always turn to Google. I wonder who installs all the data in these inststruments.

[Modelcar]

....Webdcrawler is the one I started with first but now I always turn to Google. I wonder who installs all the data in these inststruments.

[adrianspeeder]

I like Webcrawler

Adrianspeeder

[adrianspeeder]

I like Webcrawler

Adrianspeeder

[Anonymous]

One word to start any search...Google.

[Anonymous]

One word to start any search...Google.

[TOMTANGUAY]

In the early 1940's, two major Liberty & Victory Ship building yards were constructed in South Portland, Maine by the U.S. Maritime Commision. These operated under various names until WWII ended. See: http://members.dialmaine.com/mdenis/Shipyard/ for more information.
These yards had an extensive rail network that connected to the Boston& Maine / Maine Central systems through the Portland Terminal Co. RR at Rigby Yards in So. Portland. Approximately 3 miles from the main yards was a "plate yard", where some fabrication was done, then moved by rail to the main shipyards.
Part of the line operated over tracks of the old Eastern RR, and that portion is still in use, today, as the Turners Island Industrial RR. The balance of the line was abandoned in the sixties or seventies, and is now a Greenbelt walking trail.
I would appreciate any and all information on this rail network, such as track layouts, equipment owned/used, photos, etc.

[TOMTANGUAY]

In the early 1940's, two major Liberty & Victory Ship building yards were constructed in South Portland, Maine by the U.S. Maritime Commision. These operated under various names until WWII ended. See: http://members.dialmaine.com/mdenis/Shipyard/ for more information.
These yards had an extensive rail network that connected to the Boston& Maine / Maine Central systems through the Portland Terminal Co. RR at Rigby Yards in So. Portland. Approximately 3 miles from the main yards was a "plate yard", where some fabrication was done, then moved by rail to the main shipyards.
Part of the line operated over tracks of the old Eastern RR, and that portion is still in use, today, as the Turners Island Industrial RR. The balance of the line was abandoned in the sixties or seventies, and is now a Greenbelt walking trail.
I would appreciate any and all information on this rail network, such as track layouts, equipment owned/used, photos, etc.

.

01/15/2007

 

Still looking for information on the WWII time frame. No luck with GOOGLE, YAHOO, DOGPILE, etc. No luck with Merchant Marine, Linerty Ship, nor War Emergency Shipyard websites as far as this rail line goes.

Hoping  that someone new may read this and have info. ???