Pipelines

Cat skinner working on oil pipeline. The cat skinner holds the pipeline up and ready for a tie in at a combination creek and road crossing. From the Scrapbook War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.: Construction Views, Eastern Extension of East Texas-East Coast Pipeline Volume II.

Dynamite sled on the right of way over Chestnut Ridge in Pennsylvania. This scene is in the Allegheny Foothills within rifle shot of the spot where George Washington, with a company of Virginia Militia, surprised and defeated the French General Jumonville on May 28, 1754. This touched off the French and Indian War. From the Scrapbook War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.: Construction Views, Eastern Extension of East Texas-East Coast Pipeline Volume II.

Boom cat towing a clamshell out of mud in western Pennsylvania. One track of the clamshell is completely covered. From the Scrapbook War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.: Construction Views, Eastern Extension of East Texas-East Coast Pipeline Volume II.

A clamshell mired in mud almost over its tracks on the banks of the South Fork of Wheeling Creek in Pennsylvania near the West Virginia Border. On the other end of the towing cable in the photo is a tow cat ready to pull the clamshell out. From the Scrapbook War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.: Construction Views, Eastern Extension of East Texas-East Coast Pipeline Volume II.

Mud ruts and equipment from the work on the oil pipeline in western Pennsylvania. To the right of the pipe was two D-8 boom cats working together. They help each other and other equipment out of the deep mud. The clam shell is clamming out a cave-in. From the Scrapbook War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.: Construction Views, Eastern Extension of East Texas-East Coast Pipeline Volume II.

Group of veteran pipeliners stringing pipe for emergency by-pass loop in Arkansas. The by-pass loop restored major oil movement to the East which was disrupted by a flood on the Arkansas River. Many pipeliners worked 24 hours at a stretch to help complete the by-pass loop quickly. Five hundred veteran pipeliners volunteered to build the 8-mile by-pass of the flood break in the "Big Inch". All workers unidentified.

Arkansas flood waters that washed away a levee half-a-mile inland from point where torrential current cut new river channel and severed deeply buried "Big Inch" pipeline near Little Rock, Arkansas.

Flooded Arkansas River that stalled "Big Inch" pipeline deliveries of oil for the East. The Arkansas River flooded thousands of acres before severing the War Emergency Pipeline near Little Rock, Arkansas. The break was detoured by quick construction of an 8-mile emergency loop and eastward oil movements were restored.

Broken levee at Arkansas River. Veteran pipeliners jumped the flood with an emergency pipeline span across a railroad bridge at Little Rock to restore the major movement of oil for the East through the Petroleum Administration's principal pipeline project for maintenance of East Coast supplies of oil for war.

First piercing operation of first length 24 inch seamless for War Emergency Pipelines, Inc at Lorain Works.