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A sampling of industrial motive power too peculiar to classify but too interesting to ignore.
Beaunit Mills operated numerous weaving mills across the Southeast, including a large Rayon plant in Elizabethton, Tennessee. The plant operated an industrial 0-6-0 "fireless" locomotive, taking on steam from a stationary boiler in the plant complex. #1 was known to interchange cars with the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Consolidations.
Beaunit Mills #1
fireless 0-6-0 / Elizabethton, Tn / May 1967 / collection
The Canton Railroad Company is an industrial switching carrier located in East Baltimore City and county, Maryland. Canton was chartered in 1906 and today serves up to 30 shippers and the Port of Baltimore, providing switching service from interchange with CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern.
Canton #6
Baldwin 0-6-0 / Baltimore, Md / 1956 / collection
Central Foundry Company #D14
GE 65 ton / Holt, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH
Holt, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH
Central Illinios Public Service #6
Vulcan 0-4-0T (1923) / North Freedom, Wi / Jun 1970 / JCH
Central Illinios Public Service #6
Central Lumber Company #3
3-foot gauge 2-6-0 / Quentin, Ms / 1942 / collection
Louis Saillard, 2011
Dixie Construction Company #30
unknown 2-4-2T / Jackson Lake, Al / Sep 1938 / collection
Ely-Thomas Lumber Company #3
Lima Shay / Fenwick, WV / Aug 1960 / collection
Ely-Thomas Lumber Company #3
Mississippi Power #117
0-4-0T / Meridian, Ms / Nov 1950 / collection
National Cash Register Company "Dayton"
fireless 0-4-0 / Norcross, Ga / Jul 1968 / collection
New Orleans Coal & Bisso Towboat Company #12
New Orleans, La / 1948 / JCH
Parish Line #355
Kinder, La / May 1954 / collection
Richton Gravel Company #1
Richton, Ms / 1949 / collection
Southern Iron & Equipment Co #1586
shop switcher / Atlanta, Ga / Apr 1969 / collection
Southern Wood Piedmont
GE 45 ton / Spartanburg, Sc / Nov 1984 / collection
Tennessee Corporation
Plymouth 10 ton / East Point, Ga / Mar 1968 / collection
Tyson Foods #205
GE 45 ton / Waldron, Ar / Aug 1992 / RWH
Waldron, Ar / Aug 1992 / RWH
Waldron, Ar / Aug 1992 / RWH
United States Army #611
USATC S160 Class 2-8-0 / Ft. Eustis, Va / 1959 / collection
United States Army #3000
unknown / Silverton, Co / Jun 1959 / JCH
There's little to say on this entry because little is known about this locomotive. During a 1959 visit to the tourist railroads of Colorado, my father snapped a 120 negative of this unusual diesel-electric at Silverton. Unfortunately, the lens afforded a light leak, but the unit is so unusal -- a 36" gauge C-C switcher letter for the U.S. Army? -- I had to include it here. Anyone passing by this photo with any information to share about this loco, I welcome it.
Westwego Salvage #1
0-4-0T / Westwego, La / 1948 / JCH
Westwego, La / 1948 / JCH
Tea kettle #1 (below) has little significance in and of itself, strewn as it is among the rusting appliances and scrap metal of a salvage yard along the Mississippi River near New Orleans. But relative to our photo collection, the little 0-4-0 tanker is an important specimen: She's the first locomotive my father ever photographed. The story goes that not long after purchasing their first new car in 1947, dad's family decided to go for a drive and to venture across the Mississippi River on the Huey P. Long bridge -- a massive steel structure named for Louisiana's notorious governer. While following the mighty Mississippi along River Road through Westwego, Louisiana, my father -- in 1948, 15 years old -- spotted the loco in the Westwego Salvage yard. "It was the smallest locomotive I had ever seen," he later recalled. My grandfather pulled over to the side of the road and dad convinced my grandmother to let him take a few photos with the family's Kodak folding camera. Thus began a 60 year interest in railfan photography -- appropriately, I suppose, with little #1.