I wondered if anyone had pictures or Information of the PRR’s Kinsman Ave. freight yards back in the 1960’s as a kid I used to live near the then PRR’s main line heading out of the city, sometimes I’d spend time watching the trains from the Kinsman Ave. bridge, it was a very large yard and from my bedroom window I could watch the trains go by slowing before arriving in the yard, any Info will be great.
Carl
Well, if wanswheel were still here he could fill your In box with photos.
However, if you Google the Cleveland Memory Project at Cleveland State University you will be able to find a number of photos of that area from about 1927 -1930. Also, the photo collection of The Cleveland Press is at CSU and I bet this would yield some other photos, as will the Cleveland Public Library.
You should also Google the subject in general (try PRR Cleveland and go to images) and go to the various PRR interest groups, but you probably know that.
Those PRR yards and the roundhouse by the Kinsman Avenue bridge were fascinating to me, too.
During the days preceeding the Bonus March of 1932, so many unemployed men were gathering daily in the Pennsy’s Cleveland yard trying to bum a ride on a freight train headed toward Washington, DC that the PRR finally ran a special train for them from Cleveland because, among other things, the yards were in chaos from all the trespassers.
I’d enjoy seeing photos of the yards and roundhouse myself. It was quite a sight, wasn’t it?
The Hulett cranes working the PRR Ore Docks at Cleveland
Those may be the last Hullett unloaders in service on the Great Lakes. Almost every ore boat now in service is a self-unloader.
AFAIK, there are no Hulett’s left standing. The last two were dismantled and stored, per the Cleveland Memory Project.
Although all I’ve seen is videos, they were fascinating to watch.
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Those may be the last Hullett unloaders in service on the Great Lakes. Almost every ore boat now in service is a self-unloader.
AFAIK, there are no Hulett’s left standing. The last two were dismantled and stored, per the Cleveland Memory Project.
Although all I’ve seen is videos, they were fascinating to watch.
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Thank you, Balt! That was one of the best videos I’ve seen in a long while! Pure poetry in motion.
Not so long ago any Clevelander was familiar with the Huletts because not only did the C&P dock have them, but so did the nearby Erie; there may have been another set up the river (“Upper Republic”). Ore trains and the ubiqitous red dust & smoke characterized the Flats and industrial areas in Cleveland for a century.
Hulett (pronounced HEW-let) unloaders were invented by a Cleveland grocer (George Hulett 1846 - 1923).
Two scenes in this video stand out: First, I’m glad the photograp