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Andreas Grewin May 7, 2012

Scale Model Weekend at Arsenalen Museum

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Build scale models surround with the full size, what a bliss!

I hade a weekend of a lifetime. Around 30 model builders gathered at the military vehicles museum Arsenalen for a full weekend of model building and gloat at all the wonderful tanks and more. What started as walk-arounds ended in walk-on and sit-ins of all the tanks! This is images of the museum itself, see the other post for images from the behind the scenes of the storage areas.

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Andreas Grewin May 7, 2012

Scale Model Weekend at Arsenalen Storages

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On Sunday we also had the privilege of a behind the scenes tour of Arsenalens storage areas! It was very cramped, bad lightning and also everyone was very excited so it was very hard to get good pictures. But nevertheless it was pure awesomeness to be able to see and feel all these vehicles.

Andreas Grewin April 10, 2012

Oakland Waterfront & Wharf Continued

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Grove Street terminal, looking west from the transit shed, 1935 Clyde Sunderland

1482. Arrival of the Eastern Train, Oakland Wharf, Western Pacific Railroad. 1860 : 1870

1484. Ferry Landing and Freight Shed -- Oakland Wharf. 1860 : 1870 — 1484. Ferry Landing and Freight Shed — Oakland Wharf. 1860 : 1870

1497. Train of Cars on Oakland Wharf. 1860 : 1870

1543. C. P. R. R. Freight Steamer Thoroughfare Loaded with Cars. 1860 : 1870

1565. Railroad Ferry Steamer El Capitan. 1860 : 1870

1568. R. R. Freight Transfer Ferry-boat, Thoroughfare. 1860 : 1870

Liberty Ship Bow, under construction Richmond, CA

Oakland Bridge Oakland & Alameda California

Passenger train of the Central Pacific Railroad on the Oakland Wharf ca. 1870

Rail transport on Long Wharf, Oakland c1880 — Sailing ships and trains at long wharf soon after opening by Central Pacific, now Southern Pacific on January 16, 1871. CP brought trains of the first transcontinental RR into Oakland along 7th street to the first wharf in 1859(69), the wharf was located at Biggon’s Point, near site of the present (1930) Oakland Pier. the first wharf was built by the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad Co which inaugurated Ferry and Rail service between SF and Oakland ( Broadway St on Sept 2 1863. The long wharf seen here was used for freight after Oakland Mole was opened January 22, 1882. the Long wharf was abandoned 1918-19

Ships Loading Lumber, Oakland Estuary, c.1870 — The Oakland hills were covered with a vast redwood forest known as the San Antonio Redwood, which had some of the largest trees on earth. Between 1842 and 1853 this forest was logged extensively to supply San Francisco with lumber. The area’s first steam sawmill was built on the edge of Montclair in 1850. A logging road from the mill, later Park Blvd., connecting to the wharf at the foot of 13th Avenue, where ships transported lumber to San Francisco from this estuary. This forest was gone by 1860.

Shows one of the electric trains on the Key Route.

The Port of Oakland’s Grove Street Pier opened in 1928 between Grove and Jefferson Streets, on the site of Municipal Dock No. 1

Train carrying tanks past the Grove Street Pier, 1943

Wharf Construction, Port of Oakland c1910

For more information check out these links:

http://www.waterfrontaction.org/history/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alameda_Mole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Long_Wharf

Andreas Grewin April 10, 2012

Oakland Waterfront & Wharf

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The Oakland waterfront was a real busy place in it’s hayday. Several ports and ferry terminals connected Oakland to San Francisco and to the rest of the world.

Oakland Ferry — The ferry “Garden City” taking on passengers at the Oakland Municipal Wharf, foot of Franklin St. ca. 1900

Ferry Boat entering the Key Route Slip Oakland California

Oakland lumbermill — “This 1901 view, looking north from Alameda, takes in the Oakland waterfront west of the Webster Street Bridge. The estuary is lined with storage yards for lumber, coal, and building materials. Oakland’s city-owned wharves adjoin the bridge, and on the far left a ferryboat is docked at the foot of Broadway.” Pacific Gateway, Woodruff Minor, p. 15 Image courtesy of the Oakland History Room, Oakland Public Library.

“A rare glimpse of the busy Southern Pacific Railroad’s busy waterfront terminal in Oakland, California, where trainloads of passengers would be loaded onto giant railroad-operated ferries for a short trip across San Francisco Bay and into the San Francisco Ferry Building. Prior to the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the late 1930s, this was the way train passengers got from one side of the bay to the other. Use of the facility actually traces back to the late 1860s when the Central Pacific Railroad began transporting freight cars across the bay from what was then known as the Oakland Long Wharf, located at the western end of Seventh Street. The area around the pier was filled in in the early 1880s, and the Southern Pacific Railroad, which had taken over the Central Pacific Railroad, expanded and enclosed the facility into the scene pictured here. Use of the Oakland Mole declined after completion of the Bay Bridge, but some service continued there until about 1957. The Oakland Mole was demolished in the mid-1960s to allow for an expansion of the Port of Oakland cargo facilities. This postcard was published by the Newman Post Card Co. of Los Angeles, although it says it was printed in Germany. It features the longtime Southern Pacific slogan of being ‘On the Road of a Thousand Wonders.’ “

Oakland Mole — The Oakland Long Wharf, later known as the Oakland Pier or the SP Mole was a massive railroad wharf and ferry pier in Oakland, California. It was located at the foot of Seventh Street. The pier began as a smaller ferry pier extending from Oakland Point westward into San Francisco Bay. In 1868, the Central Pacific Railroad acquired this pier and immediately began extending and improving it and renamed it the Oakland Long Wharf. This wharf was used by the CPRR for transporting freight cars over to San Francisco starting in 1871. Part of the wharf was filled in between 1879 and 1882, thus creating a mole. Local commuter trains also used the pier, while the transcontinental railroad trains used another wharf in nearby Alameda until 1876 when they were shifted to the Oakland Long Wharf. Thereafter, ferries carrying both commuters and long distance travelers operated between the Long Wharf and San Francisco. Beginning on January 15, 1939, electric commuter trains from East Bay points no longer ran to the Long Wharf (by then known as the SP Mole or, officially by the Southern Pacific, as Oakland Pier). Instead, they operated over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to the Transbay Terminal in San Francisco. However, regular passenger trains continued to run to Oakland Pier until 1958, when the last Southern Pacific ferryboat service from the Ferry Building in San Francisco to Oakland Pier was discontinued. After that, service from San Francisco was by bus over the Bay Bridge to Oakland’s 16th Street Station. After the Central Pacific’s operations were consolidated under the Southern Pacific, the Long Wharf was improved and the terminal buildings at the end of the pier rebuilt. Throughout its existence, progressively greater portions of the bayshore tidelands were filled in. The pier remained in service until 1958. It was demolished in the 1960s to make way for an expansion of the burgeoning Port of Oakland’s container ship facilities. Today, the only thing that remains of the SP Mole is the pier’s switchman’s tower which was restored as part of a small commemorative park.

1889 engraving of the approach to the Oakland Ferry Mole

Ferry Jeffries, Western Pacific Mole, Oakland. This is the Western Pacific Railroad Mole that served as a passenger terminal until the early thirties and then continued as a freight ferry transport point until the 1970s/1980s

Key Route Basin from Key Route Pier, c.1910 — The Key Route (later called Key System) was a privately owned company which provided mass transit in the cities of the East Bay. It was formed in 1903 by Francis M. Smith by merging Alameda County’s independent street railways into a conglomerate of streetcars, interurbans, and ferries, which were served by the Key Pier. It operated until 1960, when the system was sold to AC Transit.

The Southern Pacific Company’s Bay City ferry plies the waters of San Francisco Bay in the late 19th century.

Point Richmond Ferry Terminal was operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and a big piece of the pier can still be seen today. Zoom in to check out all the cool details of the pier:

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Andreas Grewin February 20, 2012

Milwaukee Railroad Inspiration

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I have always found the history of Milwaukee Railroad to be very intriguing. Hard to describe what it is, but the combination of heavy industrialization and the glory days of US railroads make Milwaukee an interesting spot for historical research. Also Milwaukee have an old history of brewing alcohol and the railroads played a key part in sustaining the breweries, which adds to the lure. Here are some of the pictures I found from my extensive ninja googling.

From Holton Bridge to Brewer's Hill — From Holton Bridge to Brewer’s Hill

Andreas Grewin January 30, 2012

Bridge Diorama Inspiration

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I just recently started the construction of a knocked out KV-2 on a railway bridge. I will soon post pictures of the completed construction before painting. But I thought I could start with sharing some of the inspiration for this diorama.

German captured KV-1 fails to cross wooden bridge

More futile attempts of river crossing with a KV-1 tank

Andreas Grewin November 20, 2011

References Part 1: Sherman M4A3E2 Jumbo

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As I daily scavenge the web for references I thought that I might as well post my findings here.

This first part will be dedicated to the M4A3E2 Assault Tank – postwar nickname “Jumbo”/”Cobra King” – extra armour (including 4″ on front), vertical sided turret, but about 3-4 mph slower. Built with 75 mm gun but frequently re-armed by the using units with 76-mm guns.

Users: US, France (one vehicle)

A total of only 254 tanks was built.

A great website showcasing the restoration of the famous Cobra King can be found here.