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Terminal at Portland, Maine Now in Full Operation By A. H. Morrill April 1, 1931 at wharf No. 3 marked the completion of the Portland Terminal Co.’s program of wharf development in Portland, Me., harbor which has been under way for over a year. This wharf, which is of pile and timber construction, 1500 feet in length, with 30 feet of water in the berths at mean low water, provides for the transshipment of pulpwood, lumber, china clay and other bulk commodities. It is divided into two sections, each section being served by its own set of tracks. The easterly section, 500 feet in length, is served by three tracks, while the westerly section, 1000 feet in length, is served by four tracks. The structure is of the usual pile and timber construction, the piles ranging in length from 65 to 110 feet. The easterly section of the wharf is specially constructed for handling china clay, and is equipped with 45- foot Burton masts located 10 feet back from the face of a car level platform 26 feet in width. Clay is handled out of ships in hand loaded buckets and dumped into steel hop- pers on the platform. From these hoppers it is handled into box cars in self-dumping buckets attached to lift trucks, and dumped in place without further trimming. This arrangement displaces the former method of han- dling into cars by hand barrows and trimming back by hand. Located in a steel building at a convenient location on the platform is a 50-horse power generator set for charging batteries for lift trucks. The easterly section of the wharf is equipped with four Mead-Morrison gantry cranes having a run of 950 feet and spanning a car level plat- form 20 feet in width. These cranes Ts inauguration of service on UUUUUTUUUTULELLCE LUCA Wharf No.3 at Port- land, Me. Steamer Discharging China Clay. Steel hop- pers for transferring Clay into Box Cars HONEY TUNOVAU ETNA TATE have a capacity of 10 tons at a radius of 20 feet and are equipped with 60- foot booms, capable of loading into open top cars on any of the four ad- jacent tracks. They have a hoisting speed of 300 feet per minute, a re- volving speed of 8 revolutions per Equipment for Discharging China Clay minute and a traveling speed of 1590 feet per minute. They are electric- ally operated with double drum hoists and independent boom hoists. Power is taken from trolley wires located under the platform on the HUNUDCEUU UDA EVEAT EET Cranes discharging lumber from schooner and steamer on four railroad tracks at Portland, Me. OUTTA LLU ULUULLULLUCeL LLCO MARINE REvVIEw—July, 1931 water side of the terminal proper. Car hauling cables are located be- tween tracks and these are operated by motor drives located under the platform. For night work the wharf is brightly illuminated by nine flood lights mounted on 85-foot masts at each end of the structure. While these cranes have been in operation for only a short time and no definite figures are available as to cost of operation and discharging ca- pacity, it has been demonstrated that in speed and capacity they are in every way suitable. Ocean and Rail Terminal Provides Good Service HE new ocean terminal of the Pennsylvania Dock & Warehouse Co. recently completed in Jersey City, N. J., is another example of the combination of pier and ware- house to provide adequate service to those using the terminal. Two piers and a group of ware- houses are completed, while plans contemplate additional facilities in the future. Pier D is a double decked pier $54 feet long and 125 feet wide with a shed 834 feet long and 115 feet wide. One depressed track is pro- vided down the .center of the pier with provision for a second track if need for additional trackage arises in the future. Four elevators of 10,000-pound capacity are provided to handle car- go between the two pier decks. Pier F is also a double decked pier. It is 160 feet by 915 feet with a shed 150 feet by 890 feet. Three depressed tracks are laid down the center of the pier. Six eleva- tors are provided, of the same ¢a- pacity as those in pier D. Both piers are equipped with car- go masts. At pier D the masts are 46 feet above the second deck. At Pier F the masts are 49 feet above the second deck. The floors in both piers are very good. One is of concrete, the other of special concrete with iron hardener. 45