Dodge Pickup Restored

This is the LHRy - owned / restored 1990 Dodge ¾ ton hi-rail pickup truck from Earle Naval Weapons Station, Colts Neck, NJ.  This truck was used to maintain the extensive rail system at Earle, which carried ammunition and shells, such as the 5-foot tall, 1,900 to 2,700 pound 16" shells, by the truck, from bunkers out onto the piers in Raritan Bay for loading on ammunition supply ships.  Behind the truck is one of the spare 237,000-pound 16" /  50 caliber Mark 7 barrels from the Battleship New Jersey, preserved at the Mahan Collection Foundation in Basking Ridge.  The barrel was transported by road from Camden to Basking Ridge by J. Supor & Son Trucking & Rigging Co. of Kearny.  Photo by American Truck Historical Society, Metro-Jersey Chapter member Louis Rebecchi, courtesy of Kathryn Piper and Gary Mahan.