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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
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RAILROADS
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OTHERS TIMES
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OTHERS PLACES
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Booth and Flinn Contractors train on Hobart Street.,
Pittsburgh 1913
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It has been suggested that these are Vulcan Iron Works 0-4-0T locomotives
Source of Photograph:
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection at the University of Pittsburgh Digital Library.
H. K. Porter Locomotive and Koppel Dump Cars ,
Pittsburgh PA – 1912
Source of Photograph:
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection at the University of Pittsburgh Digital Library.
Industrial locomotives at plant of Chgo.
Gravel Co., on US6 west of Joliet 1-1946 [Chas. W Cushman] P03096
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For history of this abandoned railroad see:
www.abandonedraillines.com/2019/02/plainfield-industrial-...
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Source of Photograph:
Charles W. Cushman Collection; Indiana University Digital Library
Industrial locomotives at plant of Chgo.
Gravel Co., on US6 west of Joliet 1946
[Charles W. Cushman] P03097
A history of the short line railroad can be found here:
www.abandonedraillines.com/2019/02/plainfield-industrial-...
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Source of Photograph:
Charles W. Cushman Collection; Indiana University Digital Library
Industrial railway at Camp Humphreys, VA
ca1918
NARA165-WW-524F-001
Source of Photograph:
National Archives Record Group RG:165, Training Camps and Schools
Industrial railway on Camp Humphreys VA
ca1918
NARA165-WW-281B-007
Baldwin gasoline engine
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 165
Bolting rails to steel ties for the Industrial railroad at Camp Humphreys, VA
May 1918
NARA111-SC-009953-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Porter 1915 0-6-0 Engine #102 in Harbor Springs MI
circa 1980
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I found this print pasted in my dad's album made in 1980
which he labeled as Harbor Springs, Michigan.
The locomotive seems to have been originally owned by the Southern Sand & Gravel Co. No. 102,
a 0-6-0 located somewhere in MA.
On the Internet, I found this comment:
Posted: 2007-03-05 21:27:36.303 by John H. Bell
"I first saw the 102 in the early 1960s sitting on a 300ft. piece of track that was at one time
Pennsy mainline to Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Along with the 102 sat a bunk car and a wooden caboose that belonged to the Ramona Park Hotel near Roaring Brook, Michigan.
The consist was used by the hotel as an attraction and at one time the bunk car was used
as a pizza den.
The location was very scenic at Ramona Park because it sat next to Lake Michigan
on Little Traverse Bay and I think the entire consist was moved to Alanson, Michigan
by the late seventies.
It's great to see the old girl still surviving all these years."
I understand that it may have been relocated back to MA with some god awful modifications.
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Ugh! If you dare, here are recent pictures:
Steam fireless H K Porter locomotive built for Italians
ca1918
NARA165-WW-281B-008
Apparently, only three of these fireless 0-6-0 locomotives
were purchased by the Italian Railway System.
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
They were useful for work where you did not want flames and sparks
but they did need to be recharged often. Italians only bought 3 of these but 165 of the 0-4-0T
steam locomotives in the other photograph.
STD gauge 4 driver saddle tank locomotive for use overseas
ca1918
NARA165-WW-282A-024
"In the two World Wars Porter received a modest share of special orders for steam power.
Important World War I production included 11 0-6-0's and 41 2-8-0's for Czarist Russia,
nine 0-4-0's and three 0-6-0's for Italy (including three fireless engines),
seven 0-4-0T's and five 0-6-0's for the U. S. Navy, and 51 0-6-0's for the Army.
Forty of the U. S. Army engines were 36-inch-gauge for forestry service in France;
the other 11 were used as stateside switchers.
The largest order of all was fulfilled during and after the war: 165 0-4-0T's for Italy.
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" See: www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/porter.Html
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
John F. Casey, Co. Marion steam shovel taking out a 10 to 1 slope
in the west basin on Lanpher Reservoir, Pittsburgh
11-5-1913
Source of Photograph:
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection at the University of Pittsburgh Digital Library.
Compressed air locomotive, Dept. Public Works, Pittsburgh PA
1908
Possibly a Porter 'fireless' 0-4-0 locomotive in 1908
used to remove ash from the powerhouse boilers.
Source of Photograph:
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection at the University of Pittsburgh Digital Library.
Lanpher Reservoir Workers, Pittsburgh
1914
Source of Photograph:
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection at the University of Pittsburgh Digital Library.
Transporting concrete for the Filtered Water Reservoir floor, Pittsbirgh
1905
Source of Photograph:
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection at the University of Pittsburgh Digital Library.
Trestle at Aspinwall Pumping Station, looking southwest Pittsburgh
1913
Source of Photograph:
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection at the University of Pittsburgh Digital Library.
Workers and their Mixing Plant Pittsburgh
1914
Source of Photograph:
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection at the University of Pittsburgh Digital Library.
United States Engineer Department Porter 0-4-4T locomotive
1912
An image of the United States Engineer Department's train for Humboldt Harbor.
The train was constructed by the H. K. Porter Company in Pittsburgh
under direction of the San Francisco Engineer Office.
Dated: Feb. 24, 1912.
This locomotive was used in the construction of jetties in the Humboldt Bay area
by the US Army Corps of Engineers and is described in a book:
"Logging Railroads of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties" by Katy M. Tahja;
published by Arcadia Press.
Source of Photograph:
Univ. of Pittsburgh Digital Library, United States Army Corps of Engineers,
Pittsburgh District Glass Plate Negatives collection.