Looking NNE from river toward <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/small/jeffboat.htm">Jeffboat</a> shipyard.
<p>Yellow <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gantry_crane" class="extiw" title="w:gantry crane">gantry crane</a> is equipped with large electromagnets which enable it to unload steel parts such as plates and angles from barges and move them to the storage area at the downriver end of the shipyard.
The crane then moves these parts as needed from the storage area over to the sub-assembly building where the process of welding them into a barge or boat begins.
Boat and barge construction proceeds from the downriver end of the yard (where steel components are stored) to the launching ways at the upriver end.
At far right is part of a blue floating drydock.
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Ohio River mile 602.
Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Feb. 1988.
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file # 88b189.
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/70020260@N04">William Alden</a> from Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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