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As I was "Toolin' along in my Chevrolet, tokin' on a number and diggin' on the radio..." I happened upon one of the locos from the Granite City Works actually wandering off the property. So, naturally I had to stop and pop a couple of shots.
-SW1200 USSX #1248
-Granite City Works
-Madison Ave & 16th St, Granite City, IL
-March 28, 2020
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USSX, US Steel, 956, MP15DC, ex-MinnTac, now CP 1441, at DM&IR yard at Keenan, Minnesota. April 6, 2000. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
Built as USSX 956, 5/1976. >TTLX 956>CP 1441.
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259 on it's first test run turns through J tower and continues south to Irvin works. I was never part of the test trains but was able to shoot all 3 style of gensets testing on the Big U.
USSX SW1 39 sits in Pine Yard in Gary, IN. This must be a rarely seen unit, as no pictures of it exist on any sites I looked up its history on!
A pair of engines sit caged inside the roundhouse at Hall, 259 sits next to the "unlucky" number 13. The head of the department was afraid of the 13 as it had derailed more than any other engines and had more problems. So it became the parts source. At this time the engine was slowly being put back together and eventually was completed and renumbered the 34.
A "smurf" BNSF GP38-2, a former PRSL GP38, and a CP MP15DC, a former USSX switcher, sit next to each other out in front of Mid-America Car in Kansas City, MO. 11/7/15.
BMEX 259 the first of three Gensets to test on the Union railroad leads a train of fresh slabs from the USSX Edgar Thompson Works to the rolling mills of the USSX Irvin Works. Here the train struggles upgrade towards Bull run crossing as it passes the URR's receiving yard. After demoing on the URR and in the mill at ET the 259 was sent back to Brookville and ended up being sold to the Central California Traction Company.
All three genset's were considered a failure and the Railpower one tested the best out of all three. Eventually all three were sent back after testing at USS's ET works. There was rumors of a fourth Genset from NRE coming out to test but it never did show up. Since I left in 2012 the only other thing that has been tested was a set of GP38-2's that was also considered a failure. Nothing has been able to out pull the MP15's with their great low speed lugging abilities.
USSX 68 has just pulled a cut of empty slab cars out of # 5-yard slab mill and shoves them in the clear for a different crew to bring in another cut of loads to be spotted in just a couple minutes.
2/2024 - I have no idea why LTEX 949 made a short stop at the Juniata Shops. It was gone a couple days later. This SW1500 was built as USSX 949 in 1972 and was one of the units that had been stuck at the old RMDI yard in Duryea, PA.
USSX SW1000 #39 sits at the old Bailey Generating Station (now Mittal Steel) yard along the South Shores mainline just west of the Dune Acres Station on July 26th, 2022. View is looking north from route 12 near the Brown Bag Sandwich Shop. The only info I can find on this locomotive is the model. There is no background info anywhere I have looked. Built by EMD. Just over the hill is Lake Michigan and Indiana Dunes.
Union Pacific SD70AH No. 9048 and a GE AC44 lead a lengthy manifest through the small community of Beckwourth, CA.
One of western Pennsylvania's hidden gems: the Cumberland Mine Railroad. CMYX #1 has just arrived Alicia after returning from the mine with coal loads. Starting out in the 1970s as a US Steel operation, the railroad transported coal from nearby mines to a transload facility along the Monongahela, which shipped it north towards the Mon Valley mills; #1 was originally delivered to the railroad with US Steel reporting marks and livery. Much like the BM&LP and Deseret out west, this railroad is completely isolated from the US railroad network.
AT&SF SSB1200 1243 at Corwith Yard in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in September 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Built in June 1950 as AT&SF TR4B 2418A (c/n 12361) on EMD Order 6146B, it was renumbered to 1418A, rebuilt April 30, 1979 to SSB1200 1243. It was retired December 5, 1984 and later became USSX 5B.
United States Steel (USSX) 16, a Baldwin S-12, was working near Loveridge Rd. at the Pittsburg, CA Plant in or about 1975. Pittsburg's steel mill first opened in 1910 as Columbia Steel, a 60-man foundry. This plant is now closed.
USSX 16 was a Baldwin S-12 switcher. It reportedly was built in 1953, as MCR 30 construction number 75912. The following reporting marks and numbers have reportedly been associated with this locomotive: USSX 203, RAYO 203, MCR 203, FR&W 16. Reportedly this engine, "currently is slumbering in the engine house in McCloud."
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Photo by: Steve Sloan
NS 611 rests on the A&E main in Madison, IL with a local job while a USSX switcher drills gondolas at the mill. Good to see the mill back up and running and providing traffic for the railroads and jobs for the local economy,
9-9-2019
This old locomotive seems to have an idenity crisis as it wears two numbers in this photographed I made at CMC Steel in Cayce, South Carolina back in 2011. It was bult as US Steel (USSX) MP15 #960 in 1976. It then became Joseph Transportation (JTPX) #1503 and worked the steel mill for many years in South Carolina. When it left the property back in 2013, it did so as RLCX (Relco) #1508. A recent photo shos it at a large locomotive shot in 2017 waiting to be worked on or perhaps scrapped.
Western Pacific FP7 No. 805-A and Southern Pacific rotary snowplow No. 208 sit on display at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola.
Union Pacific's specially painted "We Are One" SD70M, UP 1979, sits parked in the yard in Portola, CA.
Union Pacific SD70AH No. 9048 and a GE AC44 lead a lengthy manifest through the small community of Beckwourth, CA.
Union Pacific's specially painted "We Are One" SD70M, UP 1979, sits parked in the yard in Portola, CA.
Union Pacific's Oakland-bound intermodal train sits tied down at the crew change point in Portola, CA. ES44AC No. 7934 and AC4400CW No. 6832 make up the head end power. Off to the side, ES44AC No. 7522 sits tied down in the siding.
A USS Great Lakes Works hot metal car is pulled by an EMD SW1001 (USSX 68) locomotive at the River Rouge Works. The hot metal originates at the blast furnaces on Zug Island and is moved to the steel making furnaces at the River Rouge works. Photographed from the Diamond Jack's tour boat on the Detroit River.
Photographed using a Sony NEX 5N using a Leica Telyt 200mm f/4.5 lens.
Western Pacific No. 165, an Alco 0-6-0 steam locomotive, pulls a caboose train at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola.
Shortly after arriving onto the URR, the 2010 sits in the Hall shops getting fitted out before going out to do test runs.
Western Pacific No. 165, an Alco 0-6-0 steam locomotive, pulls a caboose train at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola.
Western Pacific No. 165, an Alco 0-6-0 steam locomotive, pulls a caboose train at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola.
Western Pacific No. 165, an Alco 0-6-0 steam locomotive, poses with Oregon & Northwestern Baldwin AS-616s No. 3 and No. 4 at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA.
Western Pacific No. 165, an Alco 0-6-0 steam locomotive, pulls a caboose train at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola.
Western Pacific No. 165, an Alco 0-6-0 steam locomotive, poses with Oregon & Northwestern No. 3 (ex-SP 5274), a Baldwin AS-616, at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA.
Union Pacific SD70AH No. 9048 and a GE AC44 lead a lengthy manifest through the small community of Beckwourth, CA.
This operational rotary snowplow sits on display at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA and holds the distinction of being the last SP rotary to be converted to diesel power and being one of the plows used to rescue the snow-trapped "City of San Francisco" from Donner Pass in 1952.
Western Pacific No. 165, an Alco 0-6-0 steam locomotive, poses with fellow WP locomotive FP7 No. 805-A at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA.
Western Pacific No. 165, an Alco 0-6-0 steam locomotive, poses with Oregon & Northwestern No. 3 (ex-SP 5274), a Baldwin AS-616, at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA.
Western Pacific No. 165, an Alco 0-6-0 steam locomotive, poses with fellow WP locomotives FP7 No. 805-A and GP7 No. 708 at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA.
Western Pacific No. 165, an Alco 0-6-0 steam locomotive, pulls a caboose train at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola.
Western Pacific No. 165, an Alco 0-6-0 steam locomotive, poses with fellow WP locomotives FP7 No. 805-A and GP7 No. 708 at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA.