In response to my comments below, Andy Sausser provided the following links: Sandusky's Coal Docks and A History of the Coal Docks.
The notes for the Port Reading coal dock contains a history of the McMyler Loader.
Steve Vanden Bosch posted seven photos with the comment: "These photos are from the Library of Congress and they were taken in 1943 by Jake Delano. The title is Ore being loaded from the lake steamer Algosoo of Sault Ste. Marie at Pennsylvania R.R. ore docks, Sandusky, Ohio"
"In 1937, with Piers #1 and #2 operating around the clock and larger and larger freighters being constructed," the Pennsy constructed Pier #3. It was almost a mile long and 600' wide. It was built with "eleven million tons of steel sheeting and pilings and the 2.5 million cubic yards of silt and debris that were dredged from the bay" to create new channels that could handle 1000' freighters. This is the pier that NS owns and serves today. "Today 95% of the coal shipped from Sandusky is used in the manufacture of steel." [History]
Speaking of history, note the Conrail logo on this hopper.
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| Andy Sausser posted Sandusky, Ohio circa 1944 Dennis DeBruler Jack Delano took several photos of the unloaders at Sandusky and Cleveland: https://www.loc.gov/collect.../fsa-owi-color-photographs/... [Some comments on the post indicate that the boats that are riding high in the water are probably there for winter layup.] Dale Pohto commented on a post I found a winter layup photo which includes all three McMyler coal loaders. Loader #1 in the picture was dismantled prior to 1958. Loader #2 was demolished in the 80s, while #3 is still in operation. |
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| Dale Pohto commented on a post |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Andy's post It looks like there are a couple of Huletts at the end of each dock. Has the Library of Congress captioned this photo incorrectly? Delano, Jack,, photographer. Unloading a lake freighter at the Pennsylvania Railroad iron ore docks by means of Hulett unloaders, Cleveland, Ohio. In the foreground, empty cars are waiting to pass under the unloaders to pick up their loads 1943 May Cleveland had four of them in a row and their backside was Whiskey Island rather than the water shown in this photo. https://www.flickr.com/.../2179.../in/set-72157603671370361/ This eBay entry does label it as Sundusky: https://www.ebay.com/.../Hulett-Unloaders.../371557694424 |
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| ClevelandMemory via Dave's Hulett Ore Unloader History [Evidently Sandusky did not have any Huletts. So where was the 1943 photo taken?] |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Andy's post Looking at a satellite image, it looks like NS still uses Pennsy's dock to unload rail cars. Thus I assume they are still loading boats. https://www.google.com/.../@41.4580056,-82.../data=!3m1!1e3 |
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| Andy Sausser commented on his post Still a working dock |
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Association for Great Lakes Maritime History posted Two views of the bulk freighter Algosoo being loaded with coal at the Pennsylvania Railroad docks in Sandusky, Ohio, circa May 1943 (Image Source: Library of Congress - Farms Services Administration - Office of War Information Collection). The photographer was Jack Delano (1914-1997). The loader is a McMyler-Wellman coal dumper, and there was once three such units in Sandusky. Loader #1 was dismantled prior to 1958. Loader #2 was demolished in the 1980s, and Loader #3 is still in operation. Information Sources: [The description continues with a history of the Algosoo.] |
Sandusky Dock is an NS-owned and served facility, located on Lake Erie, operated by Sandusky Dock Corporation. It operates a Heyl & Patterson high-lift dumper with an average loading capacity of 2,625 tons per hour. The facility accommodates a maximum vessel length of 1,000 feet and overall loading capacity of 50,000 net tons. Storage capacity of 875,000 tons is available with reclaimed coal and railcars loaded to vessel simultaneously. The facility has an annual throughput capacity of seven million tons.
The normal loading season is April 1 to December 15, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Andy's post Jack Delano was at Sandusky's dock, but they didn't have "brand name" Huletts. So now I'm confused unless the unloaders were changed between 1939 and 1943. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017878189/ Update: As Andy explains below, my confusion is that these are loaders, not unloaders. Andy Sausser: Dennis those are coal loaders, rotary car dumpers Carl Venzke posted Loading a freighter with coal at one of the three coal docks owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Sandusky, Ohio - May 1943 - Jack Delano photo. Rodney Swingle Looks like the front of that freighter was loaded first. Daniel A. Mitchell Right now this ship is nearly empty, ballasted down (water tanks) at the stern to keep the prop (mostly) underwater. The loading dumper is positioned about amidships. The ship will be moved back and forth loading various hatches, until full. Ships have to be loaded evenly, not all in one location, or risk breaking the ship's back. Richard Colby shared Dale Pohto The machine on the right was PRR... The one opposite was arch-rival NYC. That in the background was N&W (it still remains, owned by NS). Ronald L Sutton Similar in Toledo; I think NYC and C&O. B Tupper Upham Wow, I think the ones in the foreground used to be the Mad River & Lake Erie, and Lake Erie & Western. |
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| Association for Great Lakes Maritime History posted The freighter Algosoo being loaded with coal at a Pennsylvania Railroad dock in Sandusky, Ohio in May 1943 (Image Source: Library of Congress - Farms Services Administration-Office of War Information Collection). The collection notes incorrectly describe the ship as being loaded with iron ore. Jack Delano (1914-1997) was the photographer. The loading equipment is a McMyler-Wellman coal dumper, one of three such units that were once located in Sandusky. [The text continues with a history of the freighter.] |
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| Carl Venzke posted Loading coal into a lake freighter at the Pennsylvania Railroad docks, Sandusky, Ohio - May 1943 - Jack Delano photo. Charles Smith First Photo (above) ships bunker being filled badly ( I might add) with coal...second photo (below) next dump goes into the ships hold. In Chicago they had a steam coal barge with hoist to fuel the lakers as the ships took on coal at rail-water in S.Chicago. David Allen There is video on Youtube of several locations showing the Mc Mylers in action. Matthew Fish David Allen there is one rusting away in NJ in the Fresh Kill River. [I could not find this river.] Ashley Phillips That first shot looks like they are filling a bunker on the deck possibly for the ships fuel ? as in the second shot it looks quite tidy with a purpose built wall around the deck! Lovely shots!, Daniel A. Mitchell That coal bunker just in front of the stack is indeed the ship's fuel supply. This was a typical location for the bunker on many great lakes ships. Richard Colby shared Steve Vanden Bosch  I think that’s the AlgosooDon Lee It is. Delano took plenty of other photos that day and they all show the (first) Algosoo. B Tupper Upham Loading bunkers! Jon S. Chapin I remember fuel bunkers were in front of the aft house, tall as the boat deck with a hinged coverplate (closed when not full-up). Bill Shaver yeah, lump coal... awfull stuff... frozen too... |
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| Carl commented on his post Same location, date, and photographer - different car being dumped. |
Steve Vanden Bosch posted seven photos with the comment: "These photos are from the Library of Congress and they were taken in 1943 by Jake Delano. The title is Ore being loaded from the lake steamer Algosoo of Sault Ste. Marie at Pennsylvania R.R. ore docks, Sandusky, Ohio"
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| 4 B Tupper Upham: Yeah, that's Sandusky and Cedar Point in the distance. |
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| 6 B Tupper Upham: That's the present NS dock (ex-PRR) dock way out in the bay..these are the LE&W (NKP) and Mad River (NYC) docks that are long gone. Dick Krieg: In the middle to late 60's I worked on the construction of a new dock for loading coal onto ships. I never did see the end product.B Tupper Upham: That's the present NS dock (ex-PRR) dock way out in the bay..these are the LE&W (NKP) and Mad River (NYC) docks that are long gone. |
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| Steve Vanden Bosch posted Here is another photo are from the Library of Congress taken in 1943 by Jake Delano. The title is Ore [actually, coal] being loaded in the Algosoo of Sault Ste. Marie at Pennsylvania R.R. ore docks, Sandusky, Ohio |
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| Don Lee posted From the shoe box files: This pic, 1989-ish, of the out-of-use No. 2 car dumper at Sandusky coal dock. No. 1 was already gone by the time I got there. This dumper is the one loading Algosoo(1) in the famous Jack Delano photos from 1943 James Torgeson shared An abandoned and partially dismantled former Pennsy coal dumper at the dock in Sandusky, which is still operated by Norfolk Southern. (With another dumper, needless to say!) |
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| One of the detailed shots of an unloader on this site because it is explaining how he modeled an McMyler coal unloader. In this case, the detail is of the clamps that hold the hopper during dumping. There are a lot of overview photos as well. |
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| Don Lee commented on his post Wider views of the coal dock area, by me and (earlier) by Delano. |
In the 1904 topo excerpt below, B&O built the docks on the right at the foot of Warren Street in the 19th Century and "iron ore, lumber, coal, and grain were shipped in large quantities....In 1891, the Sandusky & Columbus Short Line Railroad Company opened a straight track from Sandusky to Columbus and constructed the original Coal Dock later known as Pier #1 at the foot of King St." In 1902 Pennsy bought the S&CSL and added a coal dumper to Pier #2 in 1914. [History]
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| 1904 Sandusky Quadrangle, 1:62,500 |
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| 1959 Sandusky Quadrangle, 1:24,000 |
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| MP Rail Photography posted The NS Sandusky Coal Docks, operated by the Sandusky Dock Corporation can load as much as 2,500 tons of coal an hour. Built in 1891 by the Sandusky & Columbus Short Line Railroad Company with funding also provided by the city of Sandusky the docks provided a way to get coal from Appalachia to the world. The docks were bought by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1902 and then by the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1964. Seen here is Pier #3 which has been operating for 80 years and has a coal stockpiling capacity of over one million tons. I had been railfanning along the Chicago Line when I decided to stop and see if I could get any good shots of the docks and I was not disappointed. April 4, 2021 - Sandusky, Ohio MP Rail Photography shared |
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| Samuel Grieve posted Dale Pohto: The #3 machine. Hard to distinguish details from the small image. Do you know the approximate image dimensions of the original artwork? |
Bubba Dubs posted two photos with the comment: "Sandusky coal loader."
Tim Thomas: If you look up New Departure films there's a bunch of good shots of the dock
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3 of 11 photos posted by Julie Waller Fletcher with the comment: "Sandusky."
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Lance Aerial Media posted nine photos with the comment: "Checking out the Lee A. Tregurtha loading coal in Norfolk Southern's Sandusky Coal Dock. Just like Cedar Point off in the distance, the coal cars get to experience a roller coaster of a ride, being flipped upside down and dumped out while being sprayed with water, then sent down a track that resembles an unfinished roller coaster."
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| 9:52 video @ 1:45 NS loading the Algoma Innovator at the Sandusky Coal Dock Mike Czarnecki shared |
Speaking of history, note the Conrail logo on this hopper.
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| 1:38 video @ 0:11 Hi everyone. I had to redo this video before sending it because I forgot what ship I was on. Changing ships that are very similar is more difficult. I forget where I am. The store room here on the CSL Niagara, is on the opposite side from the Atlantic Huron so I am continually making a U-turn in the galley. I thought it was so cool how we loaded coal here in Sandusky, Ohio. I was just getting some fresh air and I thought I would take this video. Hope you are enjoying your day. Chase Sambell shared |
35:29 video of today's coal unloader in action
Lukas Irons posted the question: "An NS 424 just went through Bellevue off the Fostoria side for sandusky. a poster reported the 424 as an eb coal train off the TRRA in st louis with sandusky as the final destination. where is trra getting the coal from in that area?"
Brandon Hughes: Granite City Works, it's not coal, its Coke.
Lukas Irons: Brandon Hughes ,,for sandusky? thats interesting unless its going to ashtabula
Brandon Hughes: Sandusky, export to Canada, there's usually 2 different coke trains to Sandusky.
Overview of the Bulk Ops at Sandusky, unless things changed.
Origination
425 Sandusky - Shire Oaks/Granite City Works Empty Coke
427 Sandusky - Portsmouth Empty Coke
573/873 Sandusky - Shire Oaks Empty Coal
797/799 Sandusky Empty Coal Repo Move (these are usually the two you will see)
851 Sandusky - Sou OH/WV Empty Coal
871 Sandusky - Columbus Empty Coal
Terminating
424 Shire/Granite City - Sandusky Loaded Coke
426 Portsmouth - Sandusky Loaded Coke
572 Shire Oaks - Sandusky Coal
698 Columbus - Sandusky Coal
858 Sou OH/WV - Sandusky Coal
Yard Jobs
DX01 First Switches Sandusky Yard works Coal Dock
DX23 Second Switches Sandusky Yard works Coal Dock
DX51 Third Switches Sandusky Yard works Coal Dock
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