SIA Newsletter (SIAN)

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 V36, No. 1

(Winter 2007)

28 pages

Mailed in March 2007 to all 2007 & 2006 paid members

  • Pennsylvania Shipyards Redevelopment & Reprieve - 2 historic shipyards on the Delaware River - Sun Shipbuilding & Cramp Shipbuilding Co.. PA
  • The Great Dry Docks at Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY
  • Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company Power Plant, Snoqualmie, WA
  • IA in Art: John W. Mackay by Gutzon Borglum
  • Santa Cruz Portland Cement Co. #2 - a 45-ton Porter 0-4-0T steam locomotive, Preservation & Experimental IA
  • UConn Library adds IA Research Collections. Francis D. Donovan Railroad Collection & the Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Collection
  • 2006 SIA Fall Tour Review - Youngstown Ohio
  • The Hudson River Crossing at Mechanicville, NY. an unusual marriage of truss forms
  • Rehabilitation of the Hadley Bow Bridge, Hadley, NY
  • A new cable-stay foot bridge on B&O old mail line.
  • National Canal Museum opens Emrick Technology Center

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 V36, No. 2

(Spring 2007)

16 pages

Mailed in June 2007 to all 2007 and 2006 paid members

  • American Textile History Museum (Lowell, MA) moves its industrial machinery collection to its satellite museum in Franklinville, NC
  • Southern Textile Mill News: Victor-Forstmann is closing its 60 year old mill in East Dublin, GA; Peerless Woolen Mill (1905) in Rossville, GA is at risk of demolition; Sutherland Mill (1887) Augusta, GA will be cleaned and stabilized and remodeled for condos and offices; Graniteville Milles, SC part of a SC economic development study to explore revitalizing many of Savannah River basins abandoned textile mills; Eagle & Phenix Mills, Columbus, GA being redeveloped as retail and residential space.
  • Schell Memorial Bridge (1903) near Northfield , MA threatened with demolition.
  • Historic Bridge News: about the High Bridge (1848) NYC; Pier Bridge (1906-7) Newport, NH, a covered lattice-truss bridge; Lake Champlain Bridge (1929) 1,014 ft.-long high level, continuous, through tress bridge; Black Warrior Bridge (1882), Northport, AL, a bowstring, through-truss bridge,; Tioranda Bridge 1872-3, Beacon, NY, a rare wrought-iron bowstring truss bridge.
  • SIA Grant Supports Archeological Investigation of Railroad Section Camp of the Virginia & Truckee RR, in Scales, NV
  • About the Edison Tower Restoration (1937-38), Edison, NJ

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V36, No. 3

(Summer 2007)

24 pages

Mailed in late September 2007 to all 2007 paid members

  • Klots Silk Throwing Mill (Lonaconing, MD) "Time Capsule in the Maryland Mountains" 1907
  • Review of 2007 SIA Annual Conference in Philadelphia.
  • Indiana IA update: Covered Bridges (Jackson County, IN); Moser Tannery to be lost (New Albany, IN); Becks Mill (Salem, IN) ; Virginia Iron Works (Monroe County, IN)
  • Article about San Antonio's First Iron Bridges
  • Historic Bridge News: 50th anniversary of the Mackinac Straits Bridge; Poughkeepsi-Highland RR Bridge; The Lindford Bridge (Koochiching County, MN) is available for relocation
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V36, No. 4

(Fall 2007)

20 pages

Mailed in late December 2007 to all 2007 paid members

  • 2007 SIA Fall Tour Review - Ely, NV
  • Millville Historic & Archeological District (in Montague Twp, NJ
  • The Electro-Pneumatic Block Signal System, Part 1, The Railroad Gazette 1887-1891
  • Industrial Museums - New Formulas
  • Historic Bridge News
  • Sites & Structures
  • IA on the Web
  • Chapter News
  • Conferences & Workshops
  • Notes & Queries

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