Men and Machines

Water tank for filling steam engines, c. 1900
Photo courtesy of Port Washington Public Library

Glenwood Landing, N. Y., sandbank diggers, 1897
Photo courtesy of Suffolk County Historical Society

Train yard in sandbank, Port Washington, N.Y., c. 1900
Photo courtesy of Bedell Collection

Steam shovel crew and bosses, Phoenix Sand
and Stone Company, Port Washington, N.Y., c. 1910
L-r: cavers, engineer, trackmen, bosses, pitmen, fireman
Photo courtesy of Catherine Bieler Reese

Laborers dig out sand by hand and load it into shovel, c. 1910
Photo courtesy of Hewlett Collection

John, (left) Samuel, and Frank Petersen, uncles of Christian Christiansen, in front of 'dinkey engine', 1910
Photo courtesy of Christian Christiansen

Steam shovel, Phoenix Sand and Gravel Company, Port Washington, N.Y., 1910
Photo courtesy of Christian Christiansen

Cliffs reached heights of 200' in some places, revealing sections of glacial delta. King's Pit, Hempstead Harbor, N.Y., 1910
Photo courtesy of Port Washington Public Library

Old steam shovel, with basic 3-man crew of
fireman, engineer, craner and pitman in front, c. 1920
Photo courtesy of Port Washington Public Library

Antonio Carta (front) and steam shovel crew
at Colonial's Garden City plant, N.Y., 1930
Photo courtesy of Port Washington Public Library

Steam pile driver, Northport plant, N.Y., 1940's
Photo courtesy of Al Marino

Floating derrick, 1940's
Photo courtesy of Al Marino

Abandoned saddle tank, Hempstead Harbor
sandbanks, N.Y., 1941
Photo courtesy of Harvey Weber

Sand processing overview, 1950's
From bottom: sand is loaded onto conveyor belt, then crushed and screened, goes into washing plant (top, middle), deposited in raw storage, delivered under tunnel to barges for trip to NYC.
Photo courtesy of Al Salerno

Raw storage conveyor belts, 1982
Photo courtesy of Mitch Carucci

Al Marino in shovel, 1950's
Photo courtesy of Al Marino

Standard gauge rail operation at the sandbanks, 1952
Photo courtesy of Arthur Raabe

Standard gauge rail operation at sandbanks, 1952
Photo courtesy of Arthur Raabe

Wheels from one of the carts used on small electric railway that transported sand to barges, 1970's
Photo courtesy of Mitch Carucci

Sorting out gravel, Port Washington sandbanks, N.Y., 1982
Photo courtesy of Mitch Carucci

Conveyor belt, McCormack sandbanks, 1983
Photo courtesy of Mitch Carucci

Conveyor belt, McCormack sand operation, 1983
Photo courtesy of Mitch Carucci

"The Monster", electric drag line, McCormack plant, 1983
Photo courtesy of Mitch Carucci

Raw storage conveyor belt, McCormack Sand Company, 1982
Photo courtesy of Mitch Carucci