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Bellow Falls Box Car, 44" x 40",
©2005, Oil A view through open box car doors on a siding in
Southern Vermont
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Blount
Boat Works, 72" x 60", ©2005, Oil
Still in its
construction shed, this shallow draft, 150 passenger excursion vessel will
take tourists right to the beach as it cruises in the Caribbean.
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Helicopters, 45"x65", ©1984, Oil, Private Collection
Sikorsky H-34 helicopters in a
scrap yard near Davis Monthan Air
Force Base in Arizona where most armed services planes are retired and
recycled.
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Suisun
Bay V, 24"x40", ©1995, Oil, Private Collection
View through propeller wells of
three ships that are part of the Naval Reserve Fleet in Suisun Bay just north of San Francisco.
Occasionally these ships are returned to service, but more often they are
scrapped.
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Suisun
Bay VI, 27"x33", ©1995, Oil, Private Collection
Two ships from one of the lines
of approximately 80 ships moored alternately bow and stern in
the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet.
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Suisun
Bay XII, 34"x23", ©1996, Oil, Private Collection
Most of the ships in the Suisun
bay Reserve Fleet are cargo transports, but occasionally there
are warships, including this aircraft carrier.
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Suisun
Bay IV, 16"x41", ©1995, Oil
The Suisun Bay Reserve ships are
popularly referred to a "gray ladies" but in fact they most
certainly are not.
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Tug,
38"x42", ©1996, Oil, Private Collection
When New York City tug boats and
ferries come to the end of their service they are taken to a "boneyard" on Staten Island.
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Helicopter,
34"x50", ©1984, Oil
Two Korean War era Sikorsky
troopships parked nose to tail (the aft fuselage is folded) before going to the breaker near Davis
Monthan Air Force Base.
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Fog,
40"x28", ©1994, Oil, Private Collection
A semi-retired transport vessel,
part of the Suisun Bay Naval Reserve Fleet.
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Firewall,
18"x32", ©2005, Oil
Just under the cowl of a derelict truck, its engine long gone.
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