by William Lafferty » September 19, 2016, 3:25 pm
Do any of the drawings show its self-unloading system? Supposedly it had a tunnel-scraper outfit, but I haven't been able to verify that, and if it did, it almost had to come from one of Leathem Smith's tunnel-scraper installations. I've often wondered if it may have been taken from the Bayanna.
It may be premature to call it a museum at this point. The New York State Museum owns it, and received a $3.1 million "stimulus" grant in 2009 to turn it into such, but progress has been very slow, hampered by a disgruntled ex-employee's attempt to sink the vessel in 2010. Last I heard it had been moved to the old Matton shipyard, owned by the state, at Cohoes, New York. I'm not sure if the shipyard or Peckinpaugh are actually open for any type of visitation at this point.
Do any of the drawings show its self-unloading system? Supposedly it had a tunnel-scraper outfit, but I haven't been able to verify that, and if it did, it almost had to come from one of Leathem Smith's tunnel-scraper installations. I've often wondered if it may have been taken from the [i]Bayanna[/i].
It may be premature to call it a museum at this point. The New York State Museum owns it, and received a $3.1 million "stimulus" grant in 2009 to turn it into such, but progress has been very slow, hampered by a disgruntled ex-employee's attempt to sink the vessel in 2010. Last I heard it had been moved to the old Matton shipyard, owned by the state, at Cohoes, New York. I'm not sure if the shipyard or [i]Peckinpaugh[/i] are actually open for any type of visitation at this point.