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Anybody have some old photos of some old S.J. Groves projects from the 70s or 80s? Recently had an interest in them. Anything with some of their big stuff?
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I believe Tim T had posted some pictures a few years back. Maybe he can post them again. I believe they were from when they were working on NY state thruway but I maybe wrong. I would also like to see those pictures again.
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great pics!!! AtlasO anyone?
Why is "phonetically" spelt with a "ph"? ... It's better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak up and remove all doubt The complex of Newgrange was originally built between c. 3100 and 2900 BC,[2] meaning that it's aproximately 5,000 years old. According to Carbon-14 dates,[3] it is more than 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and predates Stonehenge by about 1,000 years.
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Thats cool I didnt know they used trains. Im also looking for some pics of the Pittsburgh airport terminal they did in the late 80s with their holland loaders.
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That's the Rt.280 project in NJ back in the late 60's early 70's. They used the trains to go up the 6% grade from the Oranges and dump the fill for the western part of the road. They had 2 U33C's from GE and 1 RS3 from Alco. The Alco was back up power. Each GE could haul 7 loaded cars up the grade at walking speed. Was really a cool operation to see.
James
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They were also part of a three way joint venture that re-did the Edens Expressway in Chicago, IL and suburbs in 1979 and 1980. Only equipment from them on the job was a fuel-lube unit. Most of the demolition and excavation was done by the then Brown and Lambrecht and now T. J. Lambrecht. The third party was a concrete paver from Michigan whose name I cannot remember.
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Interesting. I understand they where pretty big back in the day. Cant find a lot of info on them or pictures. I did find an old news article about the Pittsburgh terminal. They have a really bad photo of their holland loader. Seemed like a similar project to the denver airport job, moving alot of material using the belt loaders and tandem 776 belly dumps. I guess H&HC did an article about that job
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Very interesting info about 280...
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I have some scanned photos from the Pittsburgh airport project. I will dig them up and post them to you in a PM. I visited that job for a full day when the Holland loaders and belly dumps were running. It was the only Holland Loader I have seen run in person. I have seen others, but not working. Ames had one in Wyoming, but it was parked when I saw it. Also I saw another in Arizona years ago, also was not in operation as the job was finished in that section."canal".... Groves did a lot of work in our area over the years...Route 17 "Now I-86" in Bemus Point NY, and other sections farther east.... a couple large earthfill dams, and a big interchange near Erie PA... those were jobs I was around as a kid. They could realy move some dirt. I wish I had used a camera back then.... just old faded Polaroids instants from those days. Pretty sad compared to the digital photos I have taken in more recent years. Same with a lot of jobs I did... Now I take a camera with me everywhere!
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Thanks Tim, Id really appreciate it. Ive never seen one in person myself. Ive been around some big stuff but there is something about the H loader thats just impressive.
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Could you post a pic of it here Tim, I don't think I've seen one and I used to go to allot of road sites in those days with my brother when he work for NYS.
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Is S J Groves still in business or did they go under I tried looking for them on the web but found nothing.......
William......
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