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| Ed Sharpe shared August 1990 Newport News, Virginia CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY Better view of the two now out of service coal piers with the conveyors and boat loaders. Photograph by Ed Sharpe — at Newport News, Virginia . It looks like they have been dismantling them and that this dock is now for unloading because the dock to the west is used for loading. |
C&O used to own all of the dock land. Note the ferry slip at the tip of the penensula.
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| 1952 Newport News Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
By 1989 there were still a lot of yard tracks to store hopper cars. I have read that they stored so many cuts of hoppers because they contained different grades of coal.
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| 1989 Newport News S Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
By 1995 coal was stored in piles rather than hoppers. I also noted there is now a tunnel under the James River. The expense of many hopper cars was eliminated by the development of long conveyor belts, coal storage silos and coal handling equipment.
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| 1995 Newport News S Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
The railroad no longer operates the dock. It is now operated by a couple of independent companies.
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| Satellite |
I wonder how much lower the ship on the left will be when it is full. Obviously, the ship on the right is still empty.
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| Amackob, May 2020 |
The wheeled reclaimer must have been turning and moving rather fast as the satellite passed overhead.
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| Satellite |
This photo confirms that the wheeled reclaimer is also a stacker.
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| Jo Murray, Jun 2018 |
This video is of a different dock, but it shows the operation of a stacker/reclaimer.
(new window) It looks like this terminal.
Is this an unloader that sucks the coal out of a ship?
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| Screenshot |
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