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Miniature of Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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    • Date Created: 1955-02-05
    • Description: February 5, 1955. Wooden timbers stretch across between the double railroad tracks upon which the steamship Ticonderoga inches its way overland to its final resting place, the Shelburne Museum. The tracks were laid in 300 foot sections in front of the vessel. Crewmen work the tracks to keep the ship online. The move was made in the winter so the frozen ground could support the rails and the immense weight. Photo 124.
    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
    Miniature of Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
    Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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      • Date Created: 1955-01-26
      • Description: January 26, 1955. The bow of the steamship Ticonderoga, is seen here. The entire ship is seated and welded to a wheeled cradle upon which the ship will be moved along the double railroad tracks laid before it. The cradle had been submerged in a man made basin that was flooded, the boat positioned over the cradle and then the basin drained allowing the boat to come to rest on the cradle. Photo 106.
      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
      Miniature of Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
      Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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        • Date Created: 1955-01-31
        • Description: January 31, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga begins its 9,250 foot overland journey to the Shelburne Museum. The ship has been welded to its wheeled cradle. The railroad tracks have been laid in front of her and she will make a 150 foot advance on this first day. Photo 115.
        • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
        Miniature of Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
        Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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          • Date Created: 1955-02-05
          • Description: February 5, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga inches her way along double railroad tracks. Metal rods and wooden planks span the center between the two tracks. Men of W. B. Hill Company of Tilton, New Hampshire attend the rails helping to ensure that the boat safely navigates its 2 mile trip overland to the Shelburne Museum.
          • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
          Miniature of Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
          Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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            • Date Created: 1955-02-19
            • Description: February 19, 1955. The steamship Ticonderoga travels overland pulled by winches as it rides along double railroad tracks. On the left workman from the W. B. Hill Company of Tilton, New Hampshire work the rails while a family stands nearby on the right. Photo 136.
            • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
            Miniature of Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
            Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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              • Description: November 6, 1954. The steamship Ticonderoga, her engines still, the lower half of her paddlewheels temporarily removed sits at the end of Shelburne Bay near the LaPlatte River. A tugboat was required to push her into a man made basin dug to allow her to be positioned over a wheeled cradle needed to move her 2 miles overland to the Shelburne Museum. Photo 41.
              • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
              Miniature of Vermont [Steamboat]
              Vermont [Steamboat]
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                • Description: Vermont (steamboat) rests in its cradle in dry dock at the Shelburne Shipyard, Shelburne, Vermont. Late 1920s, early 1930?
                • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                Miniature of Ticonderoga
                Ticonderoga
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                  • Date Created: undated
                  • Description: Steamship Ticonderoga inside the breakwater in Lake Champlain. She is loaded with passengers. She was built in 1906 in Newburgh, New York and the Shelburne Shipyard in Shelburne, Vermont. She weighs 892 tons, is 220 feet long and can carry a max of 1070 persons. Undated but may be early 1950s.
                  • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                  Miniature of Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
                  Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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                    • Date Created: 1954-11-05
                    • Description: November 5, 1954. The steamboat Ticonderoga is seen here at the southern end of Shelburne Bay before it begins its overland journey to the Shelburne Museum. A tugboat is drawn along side the vessel is this marshy basin. Photo 62.
                    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                    Miniature of Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
                    Ticonderoga - Move to Shelburne Museum
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                      • Description: Cows in the pasture of the Bicknell dairy farm stand next to the steamship Ticonderoga. The W. B. Hill Co., building movers of Tilton, New Hampshire, navigate the paddle-boat overland to the Shelburne Museum. Photo undated but probably March 1955.
                      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs