04-12-2010, 01:50 PM
I'm not sure if I remember correctly, but instead to using the shoreside crane, at Overseas Shipping Terminal, they sometimes used the ship's crane as Sumpter mentioned. I had forgotten about that.
If I'm remembering correctly many of the ships that came into the terminal with break bulk were small, and called on ports in the South Pacific, the Indian Ocean and Africa where they would not have had the modern facilities of American or European ports. It seems to me none of the ships hauling break bulk were bigger than 200 feet, and some may have been only 100-125 feet long.
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If I'm remembering correctly many of the ships that came into the terminal with break bulk were small, and called on ports in the South Pacific, the Indian Ocean and Africa where they would not have had the modern facilities of American or European ports. It seems to me none of the ships hauling break bulk were bigger than 200 feet, and some may have been only 100-125 feet long.
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Their kits are ho scale and larger, but a 68 foot steam freighter Hull and two piece deck kit might be a good start for an N-scale tramp steamer.