Any guesses on location? I’ll deal myself in with lock 9.

From the tugster blog comment by William Lafferty, here’s some info on Winthrop: “…really an oldie, built 1883 at Wilmington, Delaware, as J. Thos. Brown. As shown it was running for the W. E. Hedger Transportation Company of New York that ran a few very elderly steam tugs on the canal for a long time. Steam until the end, Winthrop dropped from documentation in 1954, sporting a 20” x 20” high pressure steam engine and leg boiler.” What might the crewman be doing behind the stack?

Some of you reported liking this previous canal livery. On this tender and dredge, it’s particularly attractive. Might silver/black replace the yellow/blue at some point? I’m guessing that all the color photos were taken by Albert Gayer.

Note the crewmen on the tender, one at aft companionway to the engine and one in the wheelhouse, and

this one on a dredge pipe float?

Since I’m doing shots in the dark in this post, might this be Whitehall, a canal port I admit I’m not that familiar with? Is the nearer car a 1938 Willys? Is that the 1942 Oyster Bay-built Anna L. Conners made up to Seaboard No. 11?

This tug below is clearly marked as Elise Ann Conners, but notice the davits are on the starboard side; in the image above, the davits are of a different design and mounted port side.

Is that a steersman forward the stack? And where was the photographer [maybe Al Gayer] standing, as the crewman near the stern is clearly looking in the direction of the camera?

Elise Ann was built in 1881, even before the 1883 Winthrop, but sadly was scrapped a few years ago.

Thanks to you all for your comments.