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Cantilever Cranes

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Title Cantilever Cranes
 
Description This is a view looking west across the dam, showing the span of the great cantilever cranes. The last of the CBI cantilever cranes were dismantled on Sept. 12, 1940. Note the transverse beams inside the trestle towers on which monorail cranes operated while placing concrete beneath the trestle. Heavy construction equipment comes high. Upon receiving their notice to proceed, MWAK Co. immediately let contracts for $5 million of equipment and material, and by Jan. 1, 1937 this item totaled...
These cantilever cranes (hammerhead) were specially designed by Colby Steel and Engineering Co. and Bethlehem Steel to 300 and 330 ft. double cantilevers. With a total of 8 motors totaling 408 horsepower they could both carry empty buckets at 600 feet per minute and lower loaded ones at 300."(Clifford R. Koester. A History of the Columbia Basin Project II, 150)
 
Relation Part of Western Waters Digital Library: http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/; Photographer Unknown
 
Creator Clifford R. Koester
 
Subject Gantry cranes--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Cantilever cranes--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Cranes, derricks, etc.--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Cranes; Construction equipment
 
Type Photograph
 
Coverage United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
 
Identifier 709b1v2p152-B.jpg
http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/koester,1012
 
Publisher Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
 
Source A History of the Columbia Basin Project (Vol. 2, Page 152-B)-Cage 709: Clifford R. Koester Papers, 1927-1972: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg709.htm
 
Rights To order a reproduction please see: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/policies.htm , or contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691.
For permission to publish please contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691.
 
Format Original photographic prints were scanned at 24 bit 3000 pixels by the long side for master TIFF files on an Plustek OpticBook 3600 Plus. Also, 24 bit 150 PPI JPEGs were created with the OpticBook 3600 Plus and added to the CONTENTdm database at the WSU Libraries
 
Language English
 
Date 2008
 
Institute of Museum and Library Services National Endowment for the Humanities Greater Western Library Alliance