Algoma, WI: Lighthouse Refurbishment and Breakwater Replacement

Lighthouse: (Satellite)

Roen Salvage Yard: (Satellite)

Roen Salvage removed the lighthouse from the breakwater to take to their yard so that it can be refurbished while the breakwater is replaced.

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[It appears that they are holding the left barge up against the breakwater with a bow thruster.]

It was foggy the day they removed the lighthouse.

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This is a before view. I wonder what the catwalk was for. The town is having a fundraiser to help restore the catwalk. [DoorCountyDailyNews]

Street View, Aug 2023

Kewaunee County Star-News posted
Marine contractor Roen Salvage Company of Sturgeon Bay used its largest crane to lift Algoma's Pierhead Lighthouse onto its largest barge Tuesday afternoon in preparation for a facelift while the north pier is being reconstructed. A Bon Voyage party will be held Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. at the Algoma Boat Club, with live music, food, refreshments and thousands of dollars of silent auction items to help raise funds for a citizen-led Save the Catwalk project. Rana Ninneman photo

"City officials say they hope to have the lighthouse back by September." [WeAreGreenbay]

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Here is an example of a Google search AI result that contains something I want to know, but the references don't provide that information. Did the AI get the 230-ton fact from its training?

Roen Salvage has a few cranes and things.

Street View, Aug 2023

RoenSalvage

They evidently bought the barge and crane for this job. I'm sure they assume it will be useful for future jobs.

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Gulfport, MS: History, Model Trains & Plane Museums and Ocean Port

Gulfport Museum of History: (Satellite)

TrainTastic! Train Museum formerly: Mississippi Coast Model Railroad Museum: (Satellite)

Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum: (Satellite)

Ocean Port: (Satellite)

Gulfport Museum of History

Street View, Jun 2022

This looks like it used to be the IC+L&N Union Station.

1954/58 Gulfport North and South Quads @ 24,000

Radios used to be big so they were packaged as fine furniture. It looks like this one has a big speaker.

Stephanie Martin, Jul 2024

This video highlights the railfan action at the museum. This photo is taken from the Amtrak platform along the CSX/L&N track so the train is going south on the CN/IC track. I presume that it is headed to the ocean port.

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TrainTastic! Train Museum formerly: Mississippi Coast Model Railroad Museum

I found this museum while looking for the museum in the above video. It looks like they have a Lego town in the layout.

Ann Henderson, Jul 2024

This museum has a big building.

Street View, Feb 2016

Judging from the photos and videos on Google Maps, they have a huge normal layout and some smaller layouts. This stuck me as the strangest layout.

Cedar The Dentist, Aug 2022

And they have an opportunity for kids to blow off some steam.

Daniel Hill, Aug 2024

Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum

And just three blocks east of the model train museum is the plane museum.

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Curtis Martz, Aug 2022

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Susan Sanchez-Vargas, Jul 2024

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Ocean Port

The ocean port is still operational and rail served. It looks like it handles at least containers, Dole fruit and grain.

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This is the grain elevator that is at the end of the dock.

Bottomline Beatz, Sep 2024

I had assumed that the elevator exported grain and loaded ships. But the long conveyor on the left makes me think they unload ships to import grain.

Bottomline Beatz, Sep 2024

When I saw all of these military vehicles, I assumed the port can handle RORO ships. And note that in the above photo there are military vehicles loaded on train cars. And then I spotted the Liberty Peace in the background of this photo, which is a RORO that is 199m long and 32m wide.

Bottomline Beatz, Sep 2024

I wonder if the military vehicles were leaving the country or coming back home.

Bottomline Beatz, Sep 2024

New Haven, CT: Enstructure Northeast receives SENNEGOEN 895

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I came across this video in my Facebook feed:

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This raised the question of what kind of equipment has crawler tracks that big? The answer is a dock-side material handler. Since this is the second one that is being delivered to this dock, I found a video of the construction of the first handler.

3:57 video via sennebogen @ 3:31, cropped
Sennebogen 895 E Hybrid - Assembly and Operation

The 895 E is the largest Material Handler in the world - The specific machine is the largest 895 E built to date, weighing in at just under 1 million lbs. 

Visit us at: www.TylerEquipment.com for more details.

Machine Info:

Groundbreaking dimensions - extreme power: The SENNEBOGEN 895 E Hybrid impresses with an operating weight of around 420 t and a reach of up to 40 m. It is the giant of the port handling machines with an impressive amount of handling power when it comes to moving scrap and coal. The double Green Hybrid system makes the largest material handler in the world more efficient during operation.

An earlier view showed that the barge crane is the WEEKS 533.  I've seen WEEKS cranes help build the Cuomo Bridge and salvage the Francis Scott Key wreckage.

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They built the upper body assembly that we see in the above view on the barge before they lifted it and attached it to the gantry base on the dock. The largest component of that assembly was the boom.

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The pan attachment is used to load material into a ship.

@ 3:07

Lucibello Heavy Equipment photography posted five photo with the comment: "Gateway Terminals two Sennebogen 895s hard at work loading out a bulk carrier with scrap. Checkout the Payhauler 350s passing underneath the machines."

Steven Stang: I find it awesome the Payhauler is still going and not been replaced

Jim Mack: Those trucks and the older models of the same brand work very well there…. Need the short truck to be able to turn around at the end of the pier.. Getting difficult to find those and also difficult getting parts.

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Baltimore, MD: CSX/B&O Curtis Bay Piers Railyard and Coal Terminal

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The northern pier is loading articulated barges while the southern pier is loading a ship. The ships go to foreign countries. ("China received 25% of the coal, while the rest went to South Korea and the Netherlands." [gem]) I wonder to where the barges deliver the coal.

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In the right background is the structure on the pier that loads the ships. We can barely see the yellow conveyor that raises the coal above the ship. Railroads used to store coal in many hoppers, now they store it in piles such as the one on the left.

Street View, Jul 2019

This appears to be a photo of the pier that loads barges taken from the one that loads ships. (Actually, it is the little structure on the left that loads barges. The big structure in the middle can load ships.)

Andrew Lucchese, Mar 2022

Conveyor belts are one of the technologies that allows coal to be stored in piles instead of hoppers. It looks like the far hatch is being loaded on this ship and nothing is being loaded at the barge pier.

Justine jan Pesaro, Oct 2023

The coal loading facilities are in the background of this view. This is where I found the name "Curtis Bay Piers" for this railyard.

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I wondered why this railyard had its own domain name. Then I realized it was to deal with the public relations issue of polluting Curtis Bay with dust from its coal handling operation. [e.g. csxcurtisbayfacts_monitoring]

This confirms that a ship can also be loaded from what I called the "barge pier."

Joel Amenamen, Apr 2025

A closer view of the conveyor belts.

Kevin Lowe, Oct 2019

I think these three sheds house the rotary dumpers. The locomotive on the left is the mother of two slugs and the one on the right has one slug. Since the coal trains are unloaded slowly, the horsepower of a locomotive is not needed for speed so the slugs help use the horsepower for tractive effort. No train is being unloaded in this scene.

Kevin Lowe, Oct 2019

The conveyor emerging from under the ground to the left of the sheds reinforces my opinion that the sheds house the unloaders.

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This video is about the Cumberland Yard. However, while they talk about the Cumberland Yard supporting coal traffic to the coal terminal, they have some scenes of this coal terminal.

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One of the scenes is coal being dumped from a hopper.

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1957/60 Curtis Bay Quad @ 24,000

This view no longer exists because the Francis Scott Key Bridge no longer exists since a ship allided with it. This terminal would be one of the several terminals in the Port of Baltimore that could not receive or send ships while they were removing the bridge remnants from the shipping channel.

Mielsine Infante, May 2023

Genoa, WI: Lost/CB&Q Depot and Genoa Power Station 3

Depot: (Satellite, based on the aerial photo below. WI-35 did not exist back then.)

Power Station: (Satellite)

CB&Q Depot

David Nelson posted
Here is a 1952 photo of the CB&Q depot in Genoa -- again not a very good photo and I did what I could with it.

1939 Aerial Photo from WIHAP

Power Station 3

Bojidar93, Mar 2017

Photo, Jan 2020

Because this plant is going to soon be closed, I saved a satellite image.

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I zoom in on the barge traffic because I was shocked to learn that this 1969 plant was designed to use Powder River Basin coal delivered by barge. [PowerMag]

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Barge access to this plant is no mystery since it is on the shores of the Mississippi River. But how do you get barge access to the Powder River Basin? A quick check of the Fort Randall Dam shows it has no locks. That doesn't surprise me since the dams on the Upper Missouri River are supposed to be for flood control. (I say "supposed to be" because in 2019 they favored recreation use instead of flood storage and many farms and towns downriver paid for that decision.) So do they use railroads to get the coal to Sioux City, IA, then shove the barges 734 miles down theMissouri River to the Mississippi, and then shove them many more miles up the Mississippi River to Genoa? [USACE] A quick look at a map shows that is about three times the distance as the Sioux City to Genoa distance. And that distance is less than half the distance between the Powder River Basin and Genoa.