Tag: ATB
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Vane in train
Vane Brothers tug/barge combinations have been busy on the North River this past week, either heading for Albany with cargo, returning light, or just enjoying sheltered anchorage amid heavy wind conditions. On Tuesday just after sunrise, Pocomoke had light tank barge DS-56 on the hip returning from Albany and heading for the Vane base in…
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Port Jeff Commuter
The Vane Brothers Charleston/DS 506 ATB, a 4,200 HP tug paired with a 363 foot tank barge, came up the North River on Wednesday of last week after a run out to Port Jefferson on Long Island Sound, heading for anchorage. After, I believe, loading up and making another run to Port Jeff later in…
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Get out of the weather
The Reinauer Twins/RTC 104 ATB arrived early Saturday and got a good parking space in the anchorage area north of the GW Bridge ahead of the nor’ easter which arrived in the harbor Sunday morning. By morning, there were 11 ATBs and tug/barge combinations anchored between the bridge and Yonkers, with an additional four units…
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Hello Number Five
UPDATE: I’m told the barge is borrowed while one P&C’s other barges is out of service, not a permanent addition to the fleet despite the name. Poling & Cutler’s Marylin George and her blue and white painted tanker barge “Number Five”, first seen heading upriver a few days ago, spent a few hours anchored off…
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Up from the Gulf Coast
The big Barbara Carol Ann Moran/Louisiana ATB, a 5,100 HP tug paired with a 468-foot barge, made rare trip up the North River Tuesday evening, heading for a terminal in Rensselaer. Similar to the last time we saw her in May of this year, her voyage appears based on what I can see on AIS…
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There and back
The Reinauer Twins/RTC 104 ATB entered the North River Tuesday morning with an oil products cargo bound for Albany as J80 sailboats sailing upwind tacked to stay out of her path. After unloading at the Global terminal up there, the unit came back down the North River Friday afternoon with the barge light and high…
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Looking for a New England
The Janice Ann Reinauer/RTC 103 ATB was southbound on the North River Wednesday evening, with the barge loaded and bound for Providence. We usually assume New England-bound tank barge cargos loaded in Albany are ethanol brought from the Midwest by rail as that is the main liquid fuel cargo which moves south on the river…
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Familiar face
The B. Franklin Reinauer/RTC 81 ATB, a regular on the Hudson River run, came up the North River and passed Weehawken last Monday heading for anchorage. A week later, B. Franklin is at anchor on the Bay Ridge Flats after spending the night at the Kinder Morgan terminal in Carteret, probably loading a cargo.
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Tag team
Reinauer Transportation ATBs were moving petroleum products up the North River Monday morning en route to Albany. Ruth M/RTC 102 came through early, seemingly originating at the Bayonne IMTT, followed an hour later by Janice Ann/RTC 103 who seems to have set out from the dock at Kinder Morgan on the Arthur Kill in Perth…
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Vane ATB makes a rare visit
We often see Vane Brothers tugs and tank barges anchored in the North River, passing through on the way to Albany or bunkering cruise ships in the terminal, but its rare to see their big ATB units up here. But this week, the Wachapreague/DS-803, a 4,400 HP tug paired with a 405-foot bow thruster-equipped barge,…
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Up from Philly
Kirby’s big Skipjack/Penn 91 ATB (4,000 HP tug and a 414-foot barge) made a rare trip up the North River last week, I believe bringing a fuel cargo from refineries on the Delaware River (or South River to the old Dutch) up to the Buckeye terminal in Albany. By Monday, when this photo was taken,…
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The big one
The Nicole Leigh Reinauer/RTC 135 combination is the biggest ATB we see regularly coming through on runs upriver, though we don’t see her as often as some of the smaller units. The Nicole Leigh tug is rated at 7,200 horsepower and the barge is 460 feet long. Last week, the unit was returning to the…
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Back in town?
The Laurie Ann Reinauer / RTC 85 ATB was anchored on the North River this past weekend. This is the first time I have seen this unit up here since early 2022 and she may have been working outside of NY Harbor for a bit (not sure). Laurie Ann is of similar class/design and vintage…
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Summer driving
Petroleum haulers are busy moving refined products up the Hudson River this month as winter heating oil demand gives way to summer driving season. On Thursday, Reinauer’s Kristy Ann/RTC 82 ATB was Albany-bound in the rain with a products cargo, passing Josephine/RTC 83 with a light barge anchored off North Bergen. On Friday morning, the…
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Up from the Gulf
The big Barbara Carol Ann Moran/Louisiana ATB, a 5,100 HP tug paired with 468-foot barge, came up the North River Friday morning. She was arriving from New Orleans and headed for a terminal in Albany after first calling at the Port Morris terminal in the Bronx. I last saw this ATB up here three years…
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Reinauer river
Reinauer power was moving fuel up the North River on Thursday morning, with the big Haggerty Girls/RTC 107 ATB (4,000 HP tug, 413’ barge) and the Curtis Reinauer/RTC 80 ATB (4,000 HP tug, 347’ barge) passing by in quick succession heading for different terminals in Albany. They passed Lucy Reinauer anchored with a light barge…
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Fuel goes up, cement comes down
Cement passed fuel on the North River early Monday. Coral Coast had a cement transporter barge carrying product from the Ravenna, NY plant to a distribution terminal on College Point on Flushing Bay. Coral passed the B. Franklin Reinauer RTC 81 ATB loaded with an oil product cargo and heading for Albany (or perhaps Newburgh)…
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See you on one
The Curtis Reinauer / RTC 80 ATB passed Captain Dann with light tank barge DS-43 on one whistle off Guttenberg in the early Tuesday haze. The Captain was returning from a run to an unknown terminal north of Kingston while Curtis was Albany-bound with a cargo.
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Pairing up
Heavy winds earlier this week saw a number of Reinauer units come up the North River to anchor. On Tuesday evening, Stephen Reinauer brought RTC 60 up, shadowed by Lucy Reinauer who then took over the barge at anchor while Stephen returned to the harbor. On Wednesday morning, the big Reinauer Twins/RTC 104 ATB came…
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Passing Lackawanna
The Janice Ann Reinauer/RTC 84 ATB passed Hoboken’s Lackawanna terminal in light rain on Thursday afternoon. The unit was now underway but the crew would have just witnessed a tragic helicopter accident or the immediate aftermath of the crash a bit south of here and had been holding position for over an hour mid-river near…
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