
The
FALLIE was a frequent visitor to the Elizabeth Marine Ways from 1900 to
1920. On
December 29, 1906
she docks for
repairs after sinking. JW lists all the men who work on her
during
January 1909. During
June
1920 she has extensive repairs before leaving for Mexico on
July
16, 1920, this was one of JW's first jobs as Superintendent.
This
photo of the Steamer FALLIE is dated between 1894 and 1900. Gary
Imwalle dated it for the following reason, " The picture shows that
the stacks were raised and lowered with the old "A frame" style
mechanism, when owned by the Combine she had hinged stacks as shown in the
picture on your site." Gary refers to the photo above. The
Combine purchased the FALLIE during 1900.
Determining
the location took a little more detective work. The bridge in the
background is the key to the location. Gary narrowed the possible
locations to five and his primary choice was Brownsville, PA. He was
not able to locate a photo of the railroad bridge between Brownsville and
West Brownsville during this time period so we turned to Glenn Tunney, a
Brownsville Historian. Glenn sent a postcard photo, from the
collection of Ray Christner, showing the bridge and once Gary counted X
Braces he declared the bridges a match and Brownsville the location of
this photo. To see these photos follow the link to
Brownsville
Bridges page. |