soo line coal drag

Paul Swanson photo. In April of 1907, this 60-ton capacity coal fired steam crane was built by Industrial Works of Bay City, Michigan as MStP&SSteM (Soo Line) #3. In 1915, the Soo Line renumbered it to #X-3. This …

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Missouri Farmers Assn. PS4750 Covered Hopper S Scale. $14.00. Product details. Sort by. Sorted Product Name +/-. Manufacturer: Select manufacturer. Results 1 - 24 of 2320.

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By 1940, C&O was looking for some new muscle to push, pull, and drag coal loads over the mountains between West ia and the eastern seaboard. Lima Locomotive Works knew they could design something …

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Pseudo-Soo Line Model Railroad. ... Fifty-car locals would be a pretty good size drag for the era and region I model. ... cars were appropriate almost everywhere in the "good old days," but I don't want boxcars to go to the pulpwood or coal sidings at the papermill. Thus, you will probably want a way to differentiate waybills for various ...

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Soo Line locomotive 1003 at Schiller Park, Ill., ca. 1952. Photo by Paul Nadolski. Engine 1003 had 28″x30″ cylinders, 63″ drivers, and came with a tender of 7500 gallons of water and 12 tons of coal capacity. Total weight was originally 433,500 pounds.

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October. The Gladstone Fire Department was called out to extinguish a fire which started in an abandoned coal chute in the Soo Line Railroad yards. The fire was believed to have …

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The locomotive, a 4-8-2 design, was in many ways the predecessor to the highly successful and powerful Northern. It can be argued that had engineers spent more time on the development of the Mountain it may have never even been built given the added power and speed offered in the 4-8-4, which first hit the rails in the mid-1920s.

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Big Muskie. Big Muskie was a legend among machines while in operation. Also called Muskie and Ol Musky, the machine was a model 4250-W Bucryus-Erie dragline. It was the only model ever built, and took two years and some 200,000 hours to construct. When Muskie was built in 1969, it cost $25 million dollars. That's approximately $171 million today!

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Interestingly, during this period, 1971 and 72, the Company as a whole had lost 66,000 carloads, while traffic on the Extension was increasing prodigiously. The Eastern lines of the Milwaukee, with it's multitude of branchlines and short hauls were succumbing to the same forces that would drag the other Granger roads into financial uncertainty.

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CENTER -- A coal mining company in Center commissioned a $31 million dragline Monday and is about six weeks from putting the massive coal miner to use. BNI Coal hosted the ceremony at its Center Mine.

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That whole plan was short-circuited by the BN's purchase of a zillion SD70MACs for drag ... before GE got them all changed. Gardner-Denver has manufactured large numbers of compressors for locomotives, all Soo Line power is equipped with them, I don't know whether this was a bad batch, or if this particular model has compatiblity …

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Time Line. 1887. The Soo Line constructed machine shops and roundhouse. Along the waterfront they built an ore dock 768 feet long with an approach of 914 feet. The Lehigh Coal and Iron company added a dock with capacity of 500,000 tons. [EDP-1949-0104] 1888. A second coal dock 93 by 500 feet was built and the Soo Line constructed a …

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The 350-mile Soo Green Renewable Rail line would originate in Mason City, Iowa, and go to Plano, Illinois. The 2,100-megawatt, 525-kilovolt direct current line would be buried underground following a Canadian Pacific railroad right of way, relieving it of the need to secure the right of way from private landowners or invoke eminent domain.

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Lionel 6-11449 Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Vision Line Big Boy with Legacy with IR Sensor Track and DB9 Cable Archived ... This meant it had to be powerful enough to drag the train up the 1.14% grades without helpers and fast enough to maintain schedules on the rest of the section. ... Depleting Coal Load:

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The "first" WC in Soo Line history. Wisconsin Central Railway was incorporated Feb. 4, 1871. Ground was broken June 15 at West Menasha (now Neenah) for a line to Stevens Point. It would reach …

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In 1888, the railroad was renamed the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie, often called the Soo Line. New track was built regularly through 1915, expanding the line across the Upper Midwest and into Canada. Canadian Pacific Railway was a majority stock owner in the Soo Line from 1888 on, but the Soo Line continued for years as a separate ...

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A few miles further up the ex-GN mainline, the ex-NP from St. Paul joins ex-GN line and then passes the west side of the Soo Line's Shoreham Yard and Shops at University. The line goes through the BNSF's 35th Ave. and Northtown facilities, crosses Interstate 694, and continues west (geographically northwest) after spawning the busy ex …

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2-10-0 "Decapod" Locomotives. Last revised: December 27, 2023. The Decapod Type, in general, was not generally successful, riddled with issues that caused the locomotive to be underpowered, somewhat unbalanced, and rough riding. However, 2-10-0's did have one big advantage that made it attractive to a handful of lines, its five driving …

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A Brief History of the Soo Line: The Soo Line was the result of mergers and consolidations of many railroad companies. The three principles were the Minneapolis, St. Paul and …

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So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll. ... On the Soo Line it was found that if a multi unit diesel helper was in the lead it could pull the wooden pilot beam off the front of a trailing steam engine. ... What makes for a torquier steam engine (a drag freight tank engine, say, versus a high-drivered 4-4-0) is the diameter of the drivers as ...

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This drew the attention of the state legislature which established the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company on February 4, 1871 to construct a line from West Menasha (now Neenah) to Ashland. The 260-mile route headed west to Stevens Point (a distance of 63 miles) and then curved due north to Ashland, opening in 1877. Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

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Coal mining has been a part of the community since its beginnings, and today many of Bienfait's residents still work in the area's coal mining operations. ... The CPR came through from Brandon to Estevan in 1892 and the Soo Line was running through Estevan in 1893, providing easy access to the area for many settlers coming from the United ...

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Adding oil is a maintinence item, so in the 1970's most railroads started specifying increased lube oil capacities. The lube oil capacity of a "basic oil pan" SD40-2 is 243 gallons, whereas an "increased capacity oil pan" is 395 gallons. That extends the oil replenishment interval from once every 15 days to once every 60 days for an SD40-2.

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That operation was removed sometime around the time the Soo Line first took over. Later, a new hump (much smaller) was built, and now it looks like that will disappear as well. ... we would have to drag that block out, and shove it over the hump, cutting all the hold cars out, and cutting all the spot cars out also…now all the hold cars …

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Fully loaded with #2442 had a Tractive Power of 43,000 pounds with a length of 67 feet and weighed coal and water, locomotive and 351, 263 pounds when loaded with 6,500 …

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Kalamazoo Toy Train Soo Line Vintage set. Runs looks great no track OB. The item "Kalamazoo Toy Train Soo Line Vintage set" is in sale since Sunday, December 15, 2019. ... Engine with Coal car and 2 Baggage Cars plus Track. ... You can replace Demo Widgets in Second Footer Sidebar by your own widgets at Appearance >> Widgets. Drag and Drop ...

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The railroad ran one round-trip passenger train bertween Gladstone and Rhinelander daily. trains #7 and #8 made the 126 mile trip in about 8 hours, with Michigan stops at Hermansville and Faithorn. Two way freight trains operated each way, one daily and one M-W-F. [ETT-1943] 1987. The Soo Line was purchased by the Wisconsin Central.

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40 Years Ago - Rock Island Tied Up and Went Home. On this date, March 31, 1980, 40 years ago today, one of the iconic midwestern Railroads, the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific, shut down for good. The Rock Island was a railroad run by good people, that tried hard, but was burdened with lots of competition over most of its routes.

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Adventures on the Soo Line in North Dakota. Posted by Fred Frailey. on Monday, October 18, 2010. 5. I nominate as the most . underappreciated main line in …

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If the town had industry spur tracks, they could branch off from the house track, but sometimes there was just the house track which could serve as a team track. You might have something on the house track like a small livestock pen and loading area - I know in the distant past many Soo Line depots in Minnesota had such pens.

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The EMD (Electro Motive Division) SD60 is a type of six-axle, 3,800hp type of diesel locomotive built from 1985 to 1992 (although it was first introduced in 1984 and demonstrated until production was greenlit when orders were eventually received following the end of the 50 Series line production). 1,140 were built, and most are still in service. …

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The Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway received ten updated versions of the USRA light (344,500 lbs) 4-8-2 locomotives from the American Locomotive Company in 1926. They were designated as Class …

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In 1961, the CPR combined it with the Wisconsin Central and Soo Line, renaming the whole operation the Soo Line. #192 was purchased by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in 1996 #192 is one of ten 900 …

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The Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, commonly known as the Soo Line from a phonetic spelling of Sault, helped Minnesota farmers and millers prosper by hauling grain directly from Minneapolis to eastern …

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