I would have to believe so, just one piece of the puzzle, I was always curious as to what happens from raw material, to final process, testing or proving as in what they did where you spent a career. I know in the past a lot of people had good jobs because of all of this, the Watervliet Arsenal provided that around here. The neighbor across the road at our other place is a long time and very accomplished employee there, he's been called in to the Rock Island Arsenal as well. Not sure about Picatinny. I have seen an old photo of a large gun barrel on a flat car, coming through the nearby city, right before it crossed the then rail only bridge, across the hudson. It was headed to Watervliet for machining. I am not sure where it came from, as those tracks were D&H, but connected with the New York Central, Boston & Maine, and or from the north the Burlington line from Vermont. It had to be late 1800's or early 1900's, I will have to see if I can locate a copy of it, I think I saw it on one of the historical railroad sites, one that is a pay site, but was documented locally, quite few old photos were in there.
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