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These slides arrived yesterday....
Milwaukee, date unknown....
Milwaukee, 28th of September 1941....
Milwaukee, 2nd of November 1941....
Milwaukee, date unknown....
Milwaukee, 28th of September 1941....
Milwaukee, 2nd of November 1941....
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Running for pink slips? Needs a chick in a bikini to drop the flag.
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Eastbound #3 Track, at GLEN Tower. Shown here is PRR engine #6464, J-1 (S/N 4413) 2-10-4 "Texas" built in Juniata in
January of '43 and retired in September of '57 after only 14 years service.
Photo: Unknown
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Not exactly the company I expected to have ore cars! 
Source: ORIGINAL KODACHROME LONG ISLAND RR ORE HOPPER # 344197 BAYVIEW, ON 1994 | eBay
Source: ORIGINAL KODACHROME LONG ISLAND RR ORE HOPPER # 344197 BAYVIEW, ON 1994 | eBay
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SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Used mostly for hauling ballast to and from worksites. Also used for "stone trains". In the autumn, when the leaves come tumbling down, they come down on tracks. too. The pile up of leaves makes the tracks slippery (dangerous). We'd send out consists of a bunch of stone cars and engines to just "polish the rails". The weight and heat crushed and burned off the goo from the leaves.
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NY & Atlantic Railway SW1001 #105 (formerly LIRR #105) pulls a string of LIRR ore cars in Long Island City, NY on 3/18/1999.
(Dave Keller archive)
Hampton Materials and Handling, Bridgehampton 07/1995
Photo: Thomas Collins
Archive: Dave Keller
Source: LIRR MOW Ore Cars
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Nostalgic.
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I love the ore jenny....just as much as the old Swedish Mas!
Source: Mas. Hur länge gick de? - 2008 - 2023 års Järnvägshistoriska forum
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Amtrak is (was?) using a Swedish designed "motor", an electric engine, that they nicknamed Meatballs. I don't remember much more of them than that. It is (was?) very common on Amtrak customer revenue trains.
