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ALCO T-6
The Alco T6 (DL 440) is a diesel-electric switcher locomotive rated at , that rides on two-axle trucks, having a B-B wheel arrangement. The 'T' stands for 'Transfer', meaning this locomotive is capable of faster transition and higher sustained speeds than the regular 'S' - type yard switcher series. A major difference underlying this shift is the use of the heavier GE 752 traction motors, as used on road locomotives, in place of the GE 731 traction motors used on nearly all Alco's preceding switchers. The 752 motors give the T-6 a very substantial increase in continuous tractive effort, which greatly improved its slow-speed lugging performance. The T-6 was the last series of locomotives built by Alco. The last T-6 built in 1969, the same year that the company had left the locomotive business. This last locomotive is Newburgh and South Shore #1017 which survives today in operation on the West Michigan Railroad. Original owners Survivors The Delaware Coast Line Railroad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaiser Steel
Kaiser Steel was a steel company and integrated steel mill near Fontana, California. Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser founded the company on December 1, 1941, and workers fired up the plant's first blast furnace, named "Big Bess" after Kaiser's wife, on December 30, 1942. Then in August 1943, the plant would produce its first steel plate for the Pacific Coast shipbuilding industry amid World War II. Resources for early production came from various sources, and the Fontana site presented some logistical disadvantages. However, the plant continued to grow in capacity after the war, adding more furnaces and metal rollers while also introducing new processes. The company would also eventually develop its own mines and railroad so that the steel mill formed a node in Kaiser's larger, vertically-integrated business. The Korean War led to another surge in production, and by the 1960s, Kaiser Steel and competitor Geneva Steel, a U.S. Steel-owned plant near Salt Lake City, Utah, had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of MLW Diesel Locomotives
Following is a list of diesel locomotives built by the Montreal Locomotive Works, a Canada, Canadian subsidiary of the American Locomotive Company from 1904-1964. From 1964-1975 the company was known as MLW-Worthington and was owned by Bombardier Transportation, Bombardier from 1975 until its closure in 1985. Switchers (S series) Cab units (FA & FP series) Early roadswitchers (RS, RSC, RSD series) RS series (B-B) RSC series (A1A-A1A) RSD series (C-C) Later road switchers 4-axle units 6-axle units DL series HR series (actually Bombardier) LRC series TURBO series See also MLW TURBO References * *Roberts, E.W. and D.P. Stremes (Eds.). ''Canadian Trackside Guide 2004'' Bytown Railway Society, Ottawa, ON. ISSN 0829-3023 {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Mlw Diesel Locomotives MLW locomotives Railway locomotive-related lists, MLW pt:Locomotivas ALCo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of ALCO Diesel Locomotives
The American Locomotive Company (ALCO), based in Schenectady, New York, United States produced a wide range of Diesel-electric transmission, diesel-electric locomotives from its opening in 1901 until it ceased manufacture in 1969. This is a list of ALCO Class (locomotive), locomotive classes. For individually notable locomotives, please see List of locomotives. There are numerous individual ALCO locomotives that are preserved in museums or heritage railways. In particular please see sublists List of preserved locomotives in the United States and List of preserved locomotives in Canada. Boxcab locomotives Switchers Cab units Four-axle road switchers Six-axle road switchers Century series ALCO announced its "ALCO Century Series locomotives, Century Series" of diesel locomotives in 1963 as a leap forward in power and reliability, an attempt to compete more aggressively with Electro-Motive Diesel, GM-EMD and GE Transportation Systems, GE in the marketpla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middletown And Hummelstown Railroad
The Middletown and Hummelstown Railroad is a shortline railroad which operates freight train, freight and Heritage railway, tourist passenger trains between Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Middletown to Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. Passenger excursion trains The Middletown and Hummelstown Railroad (M&H) uses both steam and diesel locomotives for passenger excursions. Coaches are 1920s-vintage Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Erie Lackawanna MU Cars, High-Roof MU Trailers. Passengers board at the 1891-era freight station in Middletown for an round-trip excursion along the Swatara Creek and Union Canal (Pennsylvania), Union Canal; a narrator relates history of the canal and various sites along the trip. There is also a collection of heritage railway rolling stock displayed at Middletown Yard. A 1969 engine is used to transport freight trains. Freight service has been provided since 1976 and passenger excursion service has been provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke, Maryland
Luke is a town in Allegany County, Maryland, Allegany County, Maryland, United States, located along the Potomac River just upstream of Westernport, Maryland, Westernport. Known originally as West Piedmont, the town is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV MSA, Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 85 as of the 2020 United States census, census. History The town of Luke was settled in the early 1770s after the organization of Hampshire County, West Virginia (at that time part of Virginia) in 1757. Among the first settlers to arrive were the Davis brothers (Henry Gassaway Davis, Henry and Thomas Beall Davis, Thomas), who established a saw mill where the town of Luke now stands. The mill provided cross-ties to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as it pushed its rails westward through the Piedmont area of what is now West Virginia. When the railroad suspended building in the 1880s, the Davis brothers disbanded and sold their property to William Luke, who founded th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NewPage
NewPage was a leading producer of printing and specialty papers in North America with $3.1 billion in net sales for the year ended December 31, 2012. NewPage was headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, and owned paper mills in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. These mills have a total annual production capacity of approximately 3.5 million tons of paper. NewPage's Niagara Mill, located in Niagara, Wisconsin closed in 2008, Kimberly Mill, located in Kimberly, Wisconsin closed in 2009, Chillicothe Mill, located in Chillicothe, Ohio sold in 2006 to Glatfelter and is still operational, Port Hawkesbury Mill, located in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia closed in 2011, re-opened in 2012 by Stern Partners as Port Hawkesbury Paper) and Whiting Mill, located in Whiting, Wisconsin closed in 2011. In 2015, the company was acquired by the Verso Corporation. History Two of the mills can trace their roots to the West Virginia Paper Company (aka the West Virginia Pulp & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Creek Railway
The Georges Creek Railway was a shortline railroad in Western Maryland that performed contract switching, and it owns of trackage between Westernport and Carlos. The railroad was headquartered at 119 Pratt Street in Luke in the former Luke Post Office. Gerald Altizer and Pat Stakem are the primary partners in the company. Operating since December 2007 on CSX Transportation and plant trackage, the firm did contract switching services for the Verso (formerly NewPage) Paper Mill in Luke. An article in the ''Baltimore Business Journal'' dated April 30, 2019, announced the closing of the paper mill in Luke by June 30, which affected the employment of the GCK's Alco T-6. Beginning in January 2024, the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad (WMSR) signed a long-term loan to revitalize and eventually operate GCK as the Georges Creek Division for regular excursion and occasional freight operations. Acquisition of the Georges Creek Subdivision The acquisition of track for the Georges C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio Central Railroad System
The Ohio Central Railroad System is a network of ten short line railroads operating in Ohio and western Pennsylvania. It is owned by Genesee & Wyoming. Headquartered in Coshocton, Ohio, the system operates of track divided among 10 subsidiary railroads. Most of the system's routes were divested from Class I railroads and connect industries to the Class I railroads. The Ohio Central operates on track owned by other entities, including a line from Newark, Ohio to Mount Vernon, Ohio owned by CSX and the old Panhandle Route, owned by the State of Ohio. Railroads in the system Ohio Central's rail system comprises * Ohio Central Railroad * Ohio Southern Railroad * Columbus and Ohio River Rail Road, the former Pennsylvania Railroad Panhandle Route * Mahoning Valley Railway * Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad * Ohi-Rail Corporation * Warren & Trumbull Railroad * Youngstown & Austintown Railroad * Youngstown Belt Railroad * Pittsburgh & Ohio Central RailroadFormerly the Pit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delaware Coast Line Railroad
The Delaware Coast Line Railroad was a short-line railroad located in Sussex County, Delaware. The company operated two lines on track owned by the State of Delaware: one running from Ellendale east to Milton and another running from Georgetown east to Cool Spring. The railroad interchanged with the Delmarva Central Railroad in Ellendale and Georgetown. It was owned by Dan Herholdt. Part of the rail lines were taken over by the Delmarva Central Railroad. History The Milton Industrial Track operated by Delaware Coast Line Railroad (DCLR) was part of the former Queen Anne's Railroad (QA), which began providing rail service between Queenstown, Maryland, and Lewes, Delaware, in 1894, and extended its track to Love Point, Maryland, in 1902. The Georgetown to Lewes branch was part of the Junction and Breakwater which formed in 1857 with a 38-mile line from a junction to the Delaware Railroad in Harrington to the Delaware Breakwater. It added the Georgetown-to-Lewes spur in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland Terminal Railroad
Rail transportation is an important element of the transportation network in the U.S. state of Oregon. Rail transportation has existed in Oregon in some form since 1855, and the state was a pioneer in development of electric railway systems. While the automobile has displaced many uses of rail in the state (as elsewhere), rail remains a key means of moving passengers and freight, both within the state and to points beyond its borders. History The first railway in Oregon was proposed by Byron J. Pengra, Surveyor General of Oregon, along the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road in 1864, but Oregon's first railroad ended up being the Oregon Portage Railroad. Henry Villard's Oregon Railway and Navigation Company established transcontinental rail lines with Northern Pacific in 1880, then with Union Pacific in 1881 (through the latter's Oregon Short Line). Twenty-first century network As of 2004, the state of Oregon has over (route-miles) of track, and of railroad right-of-way after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad ( reporting mark PRR), legal name as the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy," was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At its peak in 1882, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest railroad (by traffic and revenue), the largest transportation enterprise, and the largest corporation in the world. Over its existence, Pennsylvania Railroad acquired, merged with, or owned part of at least 800 other rail lines and companies. At the end of 1926, it operated of rail line;This mileage includes companies independently operated. PRR miles of all tracks, which includes first (or main), second, third, fourth, and sidings, totalled 28,040.49 at the end of 1926. in the 1920s, it carried nearly three times the traffic as other railroads of comparable length, such as the Union Pacific and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroads. Its only formidable rival was the New York Centra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
