Looking WNW from 27th St. Bridge at McAlpine Locks.
<p>Floating crane "Brown" after lifting wooden dam wickets (probably Chanoine wickets), stacked atop a section of lock gate, from floor of 360-foot lock where they have been stored to keep them wet. They will be taken to Dam 52, near Paducah.
</p><p>I don't know much about this crane, but it must have been made by the Clyde Iron Works of Duluth, Minnesota, once a well-known manufacturer of "Whirley" cranes (so-named because they can whirl around a full 360 degrees). The University of Minnesota Duluth has an online <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/nemhc/guides/s2365.htm">history of the Clyde Iron Works</a>.
</p><p>Ohio River mile 607.
Louisville, Kentucky.
31-Mar-1999.
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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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