EXTERNAL: N&W / CW MOW crane

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David:

Just in case you haven’t tried the Photoshop route on your old photos, do a scan of one of your negatives (or have one done; many local camera shops are equipped to do very high resolution scans of negatives, transferred to a CD), and let me see if I can pull any detail out of the murk.  You should get the highest resolution scans you can, but I can’t handle files larger than ~75Mbytes.  And my email filters knock out files larger than ~20MB, so if you go over that we’ll have to figure out how to FTP the file between us.

Don’t bother trying to scan photographic prints—the printing process always loses ~3 orders of magnitude of dynamic range that the negative would have captured, so it’s usually not worth the bother.

No promises, but I might be able to help.

-Eric
eric.h.bott at leidos.com

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Subject: EXTERNAL: N&W / CW MOW crane

I am seeking information, photos, drawings... for the MOW crane that the Chesapeake Western Railway used to have.  Numbered #3 on the CW, it was #13021 on the N&W, built by American Hoist & Derrick Co, an American Eagle model.  Digging through the CW archives at JMU, I've found a Serial Number, AE-125, Model 127.  The Ken Miller at the NWHS archives has found one photo of 13021 from 1946, and a Mech Drawing of the Gear Housing for 7 1/2 Ton American Eagle Cranes No.'s 13042, 13061, and 13064, but I understand that any other information the Society might have has not seen the light of day (yet).  The Minnesota Historical Society has a 1931 AH&D Co. catalog showing an American Eagle product that is showing some of the same details, but appears to be much older than the N&W / CW unit.  In my younger days 45 years ago, I took a brief, all too brief, series of photos of the crane thinking I had captured the information I might want some day.  I was mistaken, the lighting was terrible.

Does anyone else have photos or documents of the CW MOW crane from the 70's or the N&W units?

David Ray
Winchester, VA
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