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72 Year Old EMD and Scrap GE Cabs |
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QUITTIN' TIME: It's 5:13pm on Friday, November 12, 2021, and it's quittin' time at Midwest Steel and Alloy Corporation in Youngstown, Ohio. The engineer of MSAX #501 (SW1) drops off two scrap yard laborers who hitched a ride to the parking lot on his way back to the scale track to tie down for the night. MSAX #501 was built in April of 1949 for the Pennsylvania Railroad as PRR #9208. It later became Penn Central #8508, then Conrail #8508 (which you can still make out on the cab), before eventually ending up at Midwest Steel. On the trip from the scrap yard to the scale track, this 72-year-old EMD just passed the cut-up GE cabs of CSX #7675 (C40-8W; built 5/91), UP #9204 (C40-8; built 8/88), CSX #7749 (C40-8W; built 11/91), CSX #7514 (C40-8; built 6/89), and at least six other unidentifiable GE units. In terms of the forever-old EMD vs GE debate, it's a photo like this that makes EMD look superior (because they are). |
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11/12/2021 Upload Date: 12/31/2021 1:18:07 AM |
| Location: |
Youngstown, OH |
| Author: |
Scott Williams |
| Categories: |
Yard,Wreck |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 7514(C40-8) CSX 7675(C40-8W) UP 9204(C40-8) CSX 7749(C40-8W) MSAX 501(SW1) UP 9516(C41-8W) |
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| Title: |
Scrap GE Cabs |
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It's 5:14pm on Friday, November 12, 2021, and it's quittin' time at Midwest Steel and Alloy Corporation in Youngstown, Ohio. As workers leave for the night, the cut-up GE cabs of CSX #7675 (C40-8W; built 5/91), UP #9204 (C40-8; built 8/88), CSX #7749 (C40-8W; built 11/91), CSX #7514 (C40-8; built 6/89), and at least six other unidentifiable GE units sit awaiting their fate. |
| Photo Date: |
11/12/2021 Upload Date: 12/31/2021 1:19:34 AM |
| Location: |
Youngstown, OH |
| Author: |
Scott Williams |
| Categories: |
Yard,Wreck |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 7675(C40-8W) CSX 7514(C40-8) UP 9204(C40-8) CSX 7749(C40-8W) UP 9516(C41-8W) |
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| Title: |
Last Christmas - Scrap Yard Edition |
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LAST CHRISTMAS: At least seven GE locomotive cabs are about to spend their "Last Christmas" at Midwest Steel and Alloy in Youngstown, Ohio. Unlike the group Wham!'s popular Christmas hit, this story is not as upbeat. In this December 24, 2021 view, CSXT #7675 (C40-8W), and four additional unidentifiable Union Pacific C40-8Ws, join Ohio Central #7133 (C36-7; classed by OHCR as C30-7) and OHCR #7131 (C36-7; classed by OHCR as C30-7; still in Conrail paint) in front of a pile of Union Pacific yellow and CSX blue scrap. While Midwest Steel still uses a 1950s era Pennsylvania Railroad SW1 to move cars around, these seven GE cabs built from June of 1985 to the early 1990s are about to become "razor blades." |
| Photo Date: |
12/24/2021 Upload Date: 12/30/2021 7:05:30 PM |
| Location: |
Youngstown, OH |
| Author: |
Scott Williams |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 7675(C40-8W) UP 9360(C40-8W) OHCR 7133(C30-7) OHCR 7131(C30-7) UP 9516(C41-8W) |
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