RG Steel Sparrows Point Auction - Baldwin Switcher

robertjohndavis · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:10 am **Posts:** 2499

Lincoln Penn wrote:

Bob Davis wrote:

Out here in California, Kress was a "variety store" chain, a competitor to Woolworth, also known as "five and dime". One might call it a "fallen flag of merchandising". Sounds like a steel mill Kress is a large machine for moving large things. Could someone explain exactly what an industrial Kress is, and maybe post a photo?

Sure that wasn't S.S. Kresge? (not a steamship, either)

S.H. Kress was a national 5 and 10 chain, which got its start in the northern anthracite field of PA.

Rob

Rick Rowlands · **Posted:** Sun Dec 16, 2012 9:51 pm

The bid catalog has 770 lots of which they are calling "day 1". I am assuming that the railroad equipment, cranes, loaders and trucks will be auctioned on "day 2'.

Bob Davis · **Joined:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:25 am **Posts:** 1025

Thanks for the link--one might call a "Kress" the "Fork lift on steroids". It looks like something that might be very handy at a railway museum--two of them together could lift just about anything. The only problem would be moving it to the museum grounds from the steel mill site.

rlsteam · **Posted:** Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:07 pm

"Sure that wasn't S.S. Kresge? (not a steamship, either)"

I think S. S. Kresge was what became K-Mart.