THE MISCELLANEOUS PAGE

 

This page will consist of anything that just plain doesn't fit anywhere else.  Shortlines, scrap yards, industrial operations,
military and European trains.  I won't have any particular order to this page, so here goes......

A very short line in Rhode Island was the Naraghanssett Pier Railroad.  All images at Peace Dale, RI.

np40PeaceDale.jpg (115595 bytes)  np40PeaceDale2.jpg (105736 bytes)  np40PeaceDale3.jpg (124203 bytes)  np40PeaceDalebridge.jpg (126188 bytes)  np42peacedalebridge.jpg (102845 bytes)  npPeaceDaleRI.jpg (105695 bytes)
The railroad no longer exists, however I believe that depot is still standing.  June 1978.

Located in a south side industrial area in the city of Baltimore, Maryland was a scrap company known as Striegals.  Many a                            diesel locomotive met its demise here.  Today the company is long gone and what is there now is unknown to me.

striegals1.jpg (94919 bytes)   striegals2.jpg (153681 bytes)   striegals3.jpg (107630 bytes)   striegals4.jpg (134916 bytes)   striegals5.jpg (101830 bytes)   striegals6.jpg (119432 bytes)

These are images from two separate stops in 1978 and 1981.  Quite mixed bag of interesting stuff !!

striegals7.jpg (140346 bytes)   striegals8.jpg (136247 bytes)   striegals9.jpg (209408 bytes)

PRR E7A's and B-units, a PRR RS-1 and FM, a CNJ SW-1, an EL E8A, a SCL Baldwin and other critters.

The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad

 

ble879albion.jpg (116370 bytes)    ble879albion2.jpg (157580 bytes)   Taken in 1974, this the small shop town of Albion, PA.

ble823greenville.jpg (87568 bytes)  ble856greenville.jpg (124427 bytes)  ble872greenville.jpg (93068 bytes)  ble865greenville.jpg (96614 bytes)  ble865greenville2.jpg (110151 bytes)  A grubby day visit to Greenville, PA in 1992.

ble846NoBessemer.jpg (100659 bytes)  ble847NoBessemer.jpg (144804 bytes)   ble873NoBessemer.jpg (162629 bytes)  ble873NoBessemer2.jpg (210360 bytes)  A nicer day in the fall of 1992 at North Bessemer, PA

The Columbus and Greenville

At the time of my visit on March 31, 1977, this shortline was an obscure east-west line across Mississippi.  It's big claim to fame
in those years was their fleet of Baldwin diesels.  Included were several six axle units needed to ride over the poor track.  Today, this
line is part of the Kansas City Southern's Meridian Speedway connecting their Texas lines and the Norfolk Southern in Alabama.

cg501columbus.jpg (192668 bytes)  What I believe is a former TRRA Railroad SW-1 sits in Columbus, MS.

cg603columbus.jpg (161614 bytes)  Painted in a Great Northern like scheme of green and orange is AS-616 603.

cg606columbus.jpg (174807 bytes)  AS-416 606 is coupled to a caboose painted in the new bright blue colors.

cg601columbus.jpg (144929 bytes)  Freshly painted 601 shares the roundhouse with rust-bucket 605.  Unfortunately 601 was not running.

 

gbw323Merrilan92.jpg (191939 bytes)  The Green Bay and Western was an Alco stronghold until its merger with the WC.  323 works at Merrillan, WI in 1992.

gbw313Merrillan92.jpg (219287 bytes)  313 is on the other end of this set.

Obviously, much more to follow................