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21 hours ago, VaPatentman said:

The Liebherr site in Newport News, Virginia.was originally an airplane manufacturing plant operated by I think GE during WW-II.

The Newport News Liebherr plant was erected new in 1970. Liebherr interestingly does produce aircraft components in Germany. During WW2, Hans Liebherr was in the German engineering corps building bridges in Russia (which the IL-2 Sturmovik would blow up again).

Hampton Roads, being an ideal port, was a massive staging area for troops and supplies heading to Europe and North Africa. (http://www.dailypress.com/news/newport-news/dp-nws-ww2-port-of-embarkation-hampton-roads-20170616-story.html)

Horses and mules....something I didn't know (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/4/newport-news-became-a-springboard-for-wwii-war-hor/).

In researching, I discovered that one of the Dodge brothers was a boating enthusiast and established a boating company on the Newport News waterfront at the former US Army base Camp Stuart (http://www.nnapprentice.com/alumni/letter/Dodge_Watercars.pdf). I'm a bit of a history buff.....thank you.

Maybe you're speaking of this....in 1913, the city bought 75 acres at Newport News Creek and created a small boat harbor. In 2014, the Curtis Flying School opened there training pilots to fly Curtis flying boats.

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The cat 797 400 ton truck leaves the factory with only the engine mounted on the frame.Everything else get shipped to the site to be assembled later.It takes up to a month to have the truck in work ready.I walked the assembly line for this truck and it was quite impressive to see.

36 minutes ago, 1958 F.W.D. said:

Is that diesel-electric drive? What are the specs on something like that, I know nothing about that big mining stuff. 

https://www.liebherr.com/external/products/products-assets/311402/NTB_T284_enGB-US.pdf

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I delivered steel or something to Liebherr in Newport News years ago and remember seeing one the biggest, if not the biggest, fork lifts I have ever seen.

 

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8 minutes ago, other dog said:

I delivered steel or something to Liebherr in Newport News years ago and remember seeing one the biggest, if not the biggest, fork lifts I have ever seen.

 

od    check out the lego liebherr  crane inthe following vid

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