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Alabama
Central #29 is an Alco 2-8-0
built in 1923. She sits
hot at Jasper, Alabama, in
September of 1960. |
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July of 1950
found Alger-Sullivan Sawmill
Co #100 already retired from
sawmill duty and on static
display at Century, Florida, in
the panhandle. A Baldwin
2-6-2, this locomotive is today under
restoration by a local
preservationist group. |
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The famous
Bonhomie & Hattiesburg Southern
was a bridge shortline in
south central Mississippi,
interchanging with the Illinois
Central and others. They
rostered two handsome Baldwins.
Here 2-6-2 #250 rests
from her labors at
Beaumont, Mississippi, in
September of 1959. Note
the Boy Scout poster on the
pole. |
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Larger
B&HS sister #300, a
classic 2-8-2 shortline Mikado, sits hot on the
ready track in Hattiesburg,
Mississippi, in March of 1961. |
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Just down the
road from Knoxville,
Canasauga Lumber Co #112--a
husky Lima 2 truck Shay--switches
the local lumber yard and
sawmill at Conasauga,
Tennessee. September 1960. |
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Canton &
Carthage #202 was an Alco
2-8-2 built in 1928. It
sits cold at Canton,
Mississippi, in July of 1957.
The CCA connected its namesake
Mississippi towns, as well
managing a
connection to the IC. |
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Although
retired from active freight
service, April of 1961 found
Chattahoochee Valley #21
fired up hot for an excursion
special. A Baldwin 2-8-0
built in 1924, she was the pride
of the CHV--a textile shortline
along the Alabama-Georgia
border and its namesake
Chattahoochee river. These
days #21 is on
display at the Southeastern
Railway Museum in suburban
Atlanta. |
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A 1970
summertime family trip through
Wisconsin included a stop at the
Mid-Continent Railway Museum.
Here John found Dardanelle &
Russellville #9, a Baldwin
4-6-0 built in 1884, on
static
display at the North Freedom
based museum. She's a
long way from her roots on the
D&R, a historic Arkansas shortline. |
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DeBardeleben Coal Corporation
was known among southeastern railfans for its
hefty ex-Illinois Central
switchers such as #3566,
seen here busy shunting hoppers at
Holt, Alabama, in October of
1960. |
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A trip out
west in 1959 found Denver &
Rio Grande Western #464 on
the ready track at Durango,
Colorado. She's a Baldwin
2-8-2 Class K-27 built in 1903. |
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Denver &
Rio Grande Western #497,
a 1928 Baldwin 2-8-2 (Class
K-37) awaits the call to duty in
the Durango yard. It's June of 1959
and the D&RGW still runs the
line. |
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The afternoon
sun highlights the stocky running gear
of Denver & Rio Grande
Western
#497, another Baldwin
2-8-2 Class K-37 idle in the
yard. |
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Sister
DRGW #498 holds the end of
the ready line at Durango. |
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East
Tennessee & Western North
Carolina #207 pushes back
into a siding to reconnect to
its excursion consist during a
September 1960 special stopped
at Kingsport, Tennessee.
She's a Richmond-built 2-8-0
framed up in
1904. #207 would later be
traded to the Southern Railway
to become #630 for the SR steam
program. |
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The glory
days for this beauty were long
over by this 1961 photo. Originally a
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio
high-wheeled passenger
hauler, by 1960 she was reduced to lugging
gondolas of gravel on a short
stretch of pit trackage
near Franklinton, Louisiana.
She was Green Bros Gravel
Company #72, an Alco 4-6-0
framed up in 1928. |
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Despite its
grandiose name, the Louisiana
Eastern turned out to be
little more than a vast
collection of retired steamers
fated never to run again.
Still, this one-man museum had
some nice exhibits, such as #2,
a high-stepping Baldwin 4-4-0
dating from 1922. This
photo was taken in 1960. These
days, #2 plies the tourist rails around
Stone Mountain in Georgia. |
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Equally
handsome, a 4-6-2 dubbed
Louisiana Eastern #4 still
sparkled in 1960. This,
despite the fact the she sat in
a rust line and would eventually
be scrapped. |
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April 1958
found Louisiana Cypress
Lumber Company #3 on static
display, retired from her many
years of lugging lumber out of
the swamps up to the IC
interchange. She's a stout
little Porter 2-8-0 built in
1914, and still sits on this
spot today in Ponchatoula,
Louisiana. |
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Diminutive
Mobile & Gulf #97 sits hot
on the GM&O interchange
run-around track at Buhl,
Alabama. Number 97 was a
thin little Baldwin
2-6-0 built in 1925. September
1960 photo. The GM&O main
is in the foreground. |
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The
Mississippian was a shortline
famous for its two Baldwin
2-8-0s, both inherited from the
Frisco. Here
Mississippian #76 makes good
time near Smithville, Mississippi.
It's August of 1966 and business
is still modest for this famous
little road in the northeast
corner of the magnolia state. These
days, #76 is a part of the
ever-growing
Ohio
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May of 1960
found Mississippian
sister #77, also a 1920
Baldwin 2-8-0, stopped during
daily switching duties. Note the
outside-brace wooden Frisco
boxcar in tow. These days,
#77 works in
tourist service in
Canada. |
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The end had
come for Mobile River Saw
Mill Co #18 by September of
1959. She's a tidy little Baldwin
2-6-2 dating from 1920, in
storage at Mt Vernon, Alabama,
near Mobile. |
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Here's New
Hope & Ivyland Railroad #1533
returning to the New Hope
station with another load of
Pennsylvania tourists.
Number 1533 is a Montreal-built
4-6-0 dating from 1911.
While the NH&I is still very
much in business,
#1533 is today sidelined
awaiting major overhaul. |
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Berkshires in
Vermont? Nickel Plate
#759 is fired up for tourist
service at the original Steamtown property in Bellows
Falls, Vermont. It's
August of 1971 and this famous
Lima-built 2-8-4 (1944) still
looks great long after its busy
work on the NP mainline.
759 is still in the current
Steamtown collection. |
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Norfolk &
Western hauled many a ton with
their sturdy Class M steamers
dating from the turn of the last century. Restored
N&W #475
was dressed up for static
display at the 1960 NRHS
convention in Bristol, Virginia.
These days, #475 has been reborn
again and plies the rails
of the
Strasburg Railroad in
Pennsylvania. |
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Speaking of
N&W steam, Olin Mathieson
Chemical Corp #11 hailed
from the Roanoke shops as a N&W
2-8-0 (1892). Later relegated to
industrial service in tiny
Saltville, Virginia, she's still
a crowd-pleaser in September of
1960. Like #475 above, she
was brought out for the NRHS
convention in Bristol that year. |
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Tidy little
Sumter & Choctaw #102
rests from shortline labors at
Bellamy, Alabama, in May of
1960. She's a Baldwin 2-8-2
built in 1924 and looks right at
home in the deep south. |
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Strasburg
Railroad #90, a rare Decapod, has drawn
railfans to Pennsylvania
Dutch country for decades.
Here she is rolling light into
the Strasburg passenger depot,
passing the SR's business car, in
August of 1971. Baldwin 2-10-0 (1924) |
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The T. R.
Miller Mill Company sported
this handsome Baldwin 2-6-2
(1924) and rostered her as
#101. Here she sits
steamed and ready for sawmill work at
Brewton, Alabama, in February of
1961. |
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T. R. the
Tank Engine? T. R.
Miller Mill Company #12,
also a Baldwin product, was an
unusual 2-4-2 tank steamer built
in 1904. The fires are
cold in February of 1961, near
Brewton, Alabama. |
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Twin Seams
Mining Company employed a
number of Shays to haul north
Alabama coal up from the pits.
Certainly the stoutest was
#17, a Lima Class C Shay 3
truck loco built in 1917.
We're at Kellerman, Alabama, in October of 1960. |
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Twin Seams
Mining Company #5 pulls hard
on a cut of hoppers headed out
of the pit for interchange.
Number 5 is Lima Class C Shay 3
truck built in 1923. She's
working at the Kellerman,
Alabama, pit in 1960. |
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Western
Coal & Coke #1 has the
tourist hauling duties in June
of 1970, handling the daily
museum train at the
Mid-Continent Railway Museum at
North Freedom, Wisconsin.
Number 1 is a Montreal-built
4-6-0 brought to life in 1912.
Number 1 is currently out of
service being rebuilt by MCRM
shop forces. |
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Willis
Short Line Company #200
looks her age as she shuffles
gravel cars at Enon, Louisiana,
in October of 1961. Built
for the Texas & Pacific in 1890
by Baldwin, with steam leaks
everywhere and her brakes long
gone, her trip to the
scarp yard is not far away. |
