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For this week's Switcher Sunday we see a 1000HP Baldwin DS44 moving some coal at Mace Tower in Massillon, Ohio. Being in January 1965, this is probably from my first roll of slide film. At this time, there were still 2 tracks between MACE and Warwick (One PRR and one B&O, but operated jointly) and the Pennsy still kept a switcher at Mace for local duties. This is taken out of the tower window.
Missouri Kansas and Texas, MKT #22, with a local Dallas, Texas. September 9, 1980. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
SLRS Baldwin S12 304 poses outside the SMS shops in Bridgeport, NJ (Logan Township) after receiving mechanical work and a new paint job. The 304 started life as a Monogahela unit in 1953 before becoming an Erie Mining Company unit and finally winding up on SMS. PRR DS44-1000 9069 is also pictured behind the 304, which is one of the oldest operating diesel-electric locomotives still in existence, having been built in 1949.
Parson's Classics! Missouri-Kansas-Texas DS44-1000-23 & SW1200-6 are taking a snooze in the service area in Parsons Yard.
SMS Rail Service PRR BS10 a Baldwin DS44-1000 built in April 1949 and well traveled; hauls the tour train at the shop tour and is stopped for a photo op.
On my way out of Texas, I paid a visit to the Texas South-Eastern Railroad, a century-old lumber railroad in east Texas alleged to have one of the last Baldwin switchers in revenue service outside the East Coast.
Outside the TSE shop in Diboll, Texas are the two resident Baldwin switchers. The first one is #1007, a VO-1000 built for the Cotton Belt in 1944. It has been sidelined since RJ Corman bought the TSE in 2014 and has been up for sale since. Behind 1007 is RJCD 301, a former BLW DS44-750 demonstrator built in 1950. In a surprise turn of events, RJ Corman painted 301 in corporate colors and thrust it into service in 2016. Flash-forward five years later, the venerable Baldwin has been replaced with an ex-SCL GP16.
CLOSE UP: Dekalb Agra, Inc. Baldwin DS44-1000-#103 is working a cut of cars at the Dekalb County Co-Op facility. It was built in January 1947 as Detroit Terminal 103.
Lehigh Valley Baldwin DS44-1000 #142 at Coxton Yard Pittston Pa. with a cut of about 19 cars. She was built in June of 1949. LV employee by shanty on left keeping an eye on things. Howard Kent Jr. 10-21-1973.
WIDE View: Dekalb Agra, Inc. Baldwin DS44-1000-#103 is working a cut of cars at the Dekalb County Co-Op facility. It was built in January 1947 as Detroit Terminal 103.
A leased GATX MP15 and yard slug shove hard against a cut of freight as they work the east end of the Berkshire & Eastern's East Deerfield Yard in East Deerfield, Massachusetts. The crew is rolling over the Connecticut River on the Deerfield–Montague Railroad Bridge.
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BERX Freight Main Line - District 3
East Deerfield, MA
BERX ED-1 (Yard Job; East Deerfield, MA)
GMTX 5000 MP15AC Ex. NHB 8403 Blt. 1984
GMTX 5001 BLW Yard Slug Ex. KCS 402, KCS 4080, CNW BU18, CNW 1075 DS44-1000, CGW 9 Blt. 1949
2009/12/29: The contrast between an object and its shadow can make for an interesting photo. Explore the "dark side" of shadows today. #ds44
A pitchfork without the farmer, his wife, or their dour expressions of feigned optimism.
When i got my first slide camera in 1972, the Milwaukee was using Baldwins as their preferred switch engines in the Twin Cities. I kind of knew they were rare, so I tried to get a few shots of them. I did not yet have a driver's license in 1972, so I used my bicycle to get around. I grew up in Highland Park in St. Paul, so riding across the Ford Bridge to Minneapolis and the line along Hiawatha Avenue was an easy ride. In July 1972 I was able to catch DS44-1000 No. 937 on the line that went past the Minnehaha Depot, here it is crossing a road just north of depot. This crossing is gone but north of here the Minnesota Commercial operates on the Hiawatha line.
E&LS 201 is returning home light engine after switching the Mead plant at Wells, Mi. Anybody know what the bridge piers supported once upon a time? I don't know.
Not long after POED cleared heading westbound into the yard the hump job pulled west on the Montague Running track above the Connecticut River on to 616 ft long Warren deck truss bridge built by the Boston and Maine in 1918. Once they cleared CPF383 16R would pull up beside them on the main to perform their yard work.
Again, this isn't much of a shot but I'm including it to document the day that had both ups and downs. And no matter what this is a relaxing and peaceful location to just hang out down beside little used McLelland Farm Rd. and seeing three trains cross the bridge was not bad for the 90 min or so I spent here.
The hump crew has the normal slug set of GMTX 5000 & 5001. The former is an EMD MP15AC originally blt. Aug. 1984 as NHB (Port of Montreal) 8403. The slug is even more interesting as it was originally a Baldwin DS44-1000 originally blt. Jul. 1949 as Chicago Great Western 39. CGW successor CNW cut it down and rebuilt it into a slug in Jan. 1974. After serving the CNW for close to a decade it would be rebuilt from the frame up and end up on KCS where it would last more than two decades in yard service before finally joining the GATX lease fleet.
Deerfield, Massachusetts
Friday May 14, 2021
SMS Rail Service Incorporated's BLW DS44-1000 9069 was puttering around the yard in Jersey in 2023.
Built in 1949 for the Pennsylvania Railroad, it is still going strong.
SMS GE B23-7 1900 was puttering around the SMS facility with PRR Baldwin DS44-1000 9069 and a privately owned Alco FA2 (Long Island RR FA-2 602, originally built as Louisville & Nashville 309) that is undergoing restoration as a Pennsylvania Railroad FA2.
The lighting wasn't favorable but when such an opportunity presents itself, jump on it.
SLRS Baldwin DS44-1000 9069 kicks cars across Pedricktown Rd in Logan Township, NJ. The 69 year old vet is still alive and well, doing a fine job of earning its keep.
A restored Baldwin Pennsylvania Railroad DS44-1000 rests with a former Erie Mining S12 undergoing restoration at the SMS facility in Bridgeport. The friendly folks at SMS provided a fantastic tour. Thanks, gentlemen.
ELS 202, 1220 and 209 sit "Guarded and Protected" behind the No Trespassing sign at the entrance to the ELS' Wells shops on a beautiful summer afternoon. Less and 5 years later we were wandering around the shops and deadline with permission. Never would have seen that coming.
Roster shot of Katy Baldwin DS44-10 (re-powered with an EMD engine) No. 26 at Parsons, KS, in September 1979.
A storied logo from the copper mining era in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. This Baldwin DS44-1000 (No. 202) worked for Calumet & Hecla Mining Company until being sold to E&LS in the 1970s. It still wears the C&H logo today. Deadline at Wells.
Built in 1947, MKT Baldwin DS44-10 switcher No. 31 was re-engined by EMD, seen in the weeds at Parsons, in September 1979.
Escanaba and Lake Superior Baldwin DS44-660 101 is on a switch run at Escanaba, Michigan, on July 25, 1966. The unit appears to be painted a very dark green/black and yellow.
Owen Leander photo, Joe Lewnard collection.
I stumbled upon a surprise tour of the SMS Pureland Operations in Logan, NJ this past weekend thanks to the hospitality of a railroad employee there, and it gave me something cool to do on an otherwise dreary Saturday morning. My first shot was of former Pennsylvania RR DS44-1000 9069 sitting at the shops, soon to return to service after having some work done.
On a beautiful spring morning, SM Baldwing DS4-4-750 #102 backs into the Morrisville Industrial Park with 4 lumber cars for a customer.
Chicago Great Western 41 kicking cars in St. Paul, MN on June 2, 1964. She was a Baldwin DS44-1000 built in July 1949.
California State Railroad Museum collection in storage inside the old SP Sacramento Shops erecting hall. Santa Fe 2260, BLW DS44-1000, Built As: ATSF 2260 (DS44-1000). Serial Number: 73576, Order No: Frame Number: Built: 2/1948. Notes: blt 2/48, retired 7/14/72. Now at Frisco Texas.
Chicago Great Western 34 in St. Paul, MN on June 9, 1964. She was a Baldwin DS44-1000 built in July 1949.
Prior to the Summer of 1947, the Detroit Terminal Railroad's diesel roster was the sole domain of three 1000-hp Baldwin-built locomotives: Two VO-1000s built in 1945 and a single DS44-1000 delivered new in June 1947. The railroad expanded its diesel roster later in the year, with the addition of eight EMD-built NW2s.