Janet & Randy Brown wrote: > To return to the original subject of the thread -- did the Huletts > load ships or unload them or both? If unload, what was the cargo? If > both, what was the cargo and did ships take backloads? The Huletts would have unloaded iron ore from the Mesabe from the ships. I doubt the the scoops would have been able to unload a hopper car with coal. If coal was a backload it would have been dumped from the cars into a hopper and loaded on the ships by chutes, similar to the way colliers were loaded at eastern and lake ports. bob gillis The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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