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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.
.....for a shortline. Three Pickens Railway baby u-boats roll into Belton, SC. These old girls certainly put on a great sound show on the short steep grades that plague the line and is well worth the trip. "POP, POP, POP, POP, goes the exhaust in quick succession. The last time before this day when I was along the Pickens, it was a completely different railroad. Much shorter in a different area and using Baldwin locomotive DS44-750 #5, the "Allan M. Baum" for power. This locomotive found a new home on New Jersey's SMS as #102 and worked the Morrisville, PA area. Currently that unit is at Bridgeport, PA undergoing extensive work. Long live Pickens Baldwins! Let's hope these GE's continue to thrive into the future, too!
Parson's Classics! Missouri-Kansas-Texas DS44-1000-23 & SW1200-6 are taking a snooze in the service area in Parsons Yard.
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.
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.
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.
Ex Copper Range RR and Ex New Hope and Ivyland Baldwin DS44-1000 built in 1947 awaits it turn at SMS Rail Services.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Back in the 1980's the steel industry in Baltimore was circling the drain but the Patapsco and Back Rivers was still active.
With a EMD-engined Baldwin S12M switcher still wearing Bicentennial colors, the PBR was still going about its business in Sparrows Point.
Built by Baldwin in 1953 as PBR DS44-1000 335, it now resides in Indiana on the Whitewater Valley Railroad as their number 99.
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.
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.
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.
Built in 1947, MKT Baldwin DS44-10 switcher No. 31 was re-engined by EMD, seen in the weeds at Parsons, 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.
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.
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.
Chicago Great Western 41 kicking cars in St. Paul, MN on June 2, 1964. She was a Baldwin DS44-1000 built in July 1949.
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.
Chicago Great Western 34 in St. Paul, MN on June 9, 1964. She was a Baldwin DS44-1000 built in July 1949.
Escanaba & Lake Superior Baldwin DS44-1000 #201 (ex-Calumet & Hecla #201) idles outside the engine house at Wells, MI on August 31, 1982.
Seaboard Coast Line turntable & locomotives are seen at the roundhouse in Wildwood, Florida, 1975. This facility was once the property of the Seaboard Air Line Railway and it was a very important location on the system because the lines to the southeast coast and the southwest coast join just south of this railroad yard, locomotive maintenance facility and passenger station area. This is where passenger trains such as the SAL Silver Meteor or Silver Star were either joined for their tip to the northeast or were split for their trips to the respective southeast or southwest coasts. This carried on through SCL days and into the early Amtrak days. Freight trains were made up or split up in the yard. ACL on the other hand used Jacksonville Terminal to either split up south bound trains or to combine northbound trains.
The locomotives in this scene starting to the left is a Baldwin DS44-1000 switcher & 56, in the roundhouse on the first track in the background is an EMD locomotive GP9 # 1026. The locomotive facing the turntable track is an EMD GP38-2 # 510, and next engine to the right is EMD locomotive GP9 # 1025, and last is an ALCO locomotive RS11 # 1202.
This railroad facility, roundhouse and turntable has now long been gone, and the yard area has been greatly rebuilt with only a few tracks remaining along with the main line.