Whiskey Island, Cleveland OH- Photo shows freighter being unloaded at the ore docks. This is done by Clam Shell Buckets. Each bucket will pick up from 12 to 17 tons of ore in one bite. The buckets load is weighed automatically, between 8 million...
Lake ore carrier at a Great Lakes shipping point. The numbers on the bins are for identification of the ore since the ores have been classified to provide various finished grades of iron or steel
Ore unloading at one of the blast furnace plants on the Great Lakes. Blast furnaces are in the background with the combination ore bridges and unloader booms in the foreground
A schematic elevation a lake front blast furnace plant showing a Hulett ore unloader, Ore bridge and stock piler, Stock bins, skip hoist, furnace and blower house
Bucket ore unloaders at Conneaut, Ohio. The traveling bridge extended over the lake boats permitting rapid unloading and stockpiling of the ore. The traveling bridges also faciltated the transfer of the various grades of ore to rail cars for...
Cleveland OH- Photo shows a clam shell bucket filled with ore after it has been drawn from a lake freighter hold and about to transfer to railroad cards. Such a bucket will pick up from 12 to 17 tons of ore in one bite. The buckets load is weighed...
Shown here are two huge ore unloading machine which will serve the new coal and ore dock at Toledo to be formally opened on June 2 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the New York Central Railroad. Each of these machines is capable of unloading...
The New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad Dock at Cleveland, Ohio showing the operation of the Brown Patent Movable Bridge Tramway for the rapid handling of coal and ore
This collection represents materials collected by Prof. Sharer for his research on the iron and steel industry and particularly the world iron ore trade. The main emphasis is on the iron ore trade of the Great Lakes. The period covered, mid-1960s...
