Info from the Philadelphia Chapter NRHS Web Site:
Once the largest dedicated bulk handling facility on the Philadelphia waterfront, Pier 122 was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad to handle iron pellets from South America. Its four bulk unloading cranes fed two conveyor belts to a transfer house, and the tracks could handle up to 400 of the G38 and G39 ore jennies. Later owned by Penn Central, Conrail and now Norfolk Southern, the ore shipments ceased in 1998. During operation in the winter months, ore was stored in piles on the open frozen ground, which would later thaw and cause the much heavier ore to sink into the river bank, creating what has been called one of the largest man made iron ore deposits on the east coast.
Photo was taken from Gloucester, NJ

Photographed by Dave Homer, March 4, 2006.
Added to the photo archive by Dave Homer, March 5, 2006.
Railroad: Pennsylvania.

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