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Piers of the NYP&N, Anheuser Busch, and Merchants and Miners
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From the reports of the various Army Corps of Engineers’ district officers having charge of river and harbor improvements, Congressional Committee on Rivers and Harbors, 1913, p.608:
"The next pier is that of New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Co., which is similar  to the Chesapeake and Ohio Co.’s terminal, and has no direct rail connection. At neither of these two railroad yards are there any mechanical appliances for handling freight.
Next, and to the rear of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Co.’s pier, is the wharf of Anheusar Busch Brewing Association. This is a good wharf where vessels can load and unload, and there is a spur track connecting it with the freight yards. Between this brewing association’s wharf and the next wharf to be mentioned there is a deep slip, at the upper end of which there is a free public wharf, and large quantities of fish, oysters, and some truck are unloaded here from small boats.
The next wharf is that of Merchants & Miners Transportation Co., which runs boats between this port and a number of other cities on the Atlantic coast. This is a very long wharf, and is of sufficient size to accommodate several ships at a time. It contains a large warehouse, in which there are four tracks which have connection, through more than a mile of Norfolk streets, with the Norfolk & Western Co.’s freight terminal at the east end of the older part of Norfolk. Most of the freight handled at this dock is by hand trucks, although for certain purposes a small number of electric trucks are used."
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