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New River Terminal For uick Cargo Transfer An Artist’s Drawing Showing the River-Rail Terminal Now Under Construction on the Ohio River at Cincinnati INCINNATI will be the first city on the Ohio river to be equipped with a modern river-rail ter- minal. A project, which is designed to transfer bulk and heavy commodi- ties from river barges to railroad cars and motor trucks, is now under construction in that city and it is expected will be completed and in operation by Oct. 1 of this year. The construction of this terminal marks the culmination of a move- ment inaugurated by the Cincinnati chamber of commerce in 1922. At that time a committee of business men was appointed to _ investigate ways and means for providing Cin- cinnati with facilities to enable its shippers and receivers of freight to utilize the Ohio river as a means of transportation. The committee re- ported in 1923 recommending that the chamber of commerce foster and pro- mote a corporation to undertake the construction of a river-rail terminal. The Cincinnati River-Rail Transfer Co. was an outgrowth of this recom- mendation. The members of the com- mittee acted as sponsors of the en- terprise which was incorporated under the laws of Ohio in 1923. Approxi- mately $100,000 of the stock of this corporation has been subscribed by local business and industrial concerns as well as prominent citizens of the community. A number of civic or- ganizations including the chamber of commerce, Commonwealth club and the Cincinnatus association have con- tributed to the successful outcome of the project. Electrically Operated Cranes The terminal was designed by Major Bert L. Baldwin, a consulting engi- neer of Cincinnati. As shown in the accompanying illustration, the plan provides for the erection of an elec- tric crane of the pintle type on an elevated track constructed on _ the river bank at a point approximately midway between the low water mark and the top of the river bank. This crane will ing in a radius of 100 feet and will be capable of lifting a load of ten tons out of a barge and directly into a railroad car located on the top of the bank. During a working day of 10 hours this crane will be capable of transferring ap- 13 proximately 500 tons or the equiva- lent of 12 carloads. A similar crane will be erected on the top of the bank so that it can reach any part of the property in order to place ma- terial in storage as well as to load additional cars and motor’ trucks. Three private railroad sidings will be constructed on the property fur- nishing a combined capacity for 15 cars at one time. A concrete load- ing platform will extend the entire length of one of the tracks for the loading and unloading of box cars. The terminal is being constructed on a plot of ground owned by the Terminal company and adjacent to the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. The site is higher than the general elevation of the river bank and will be subject to flood only dur- ing periods of extreme high water such as prevailed during 1913. The pintle cranes were purchased from the United States engineers de- partment at Florence, Ala., where they had been used in the construction of the Wilson dam. They were origi- nally manufactured by the McMyler Interstate Co. of Bedford. O.