Vintage photo of caboose #28. (RSW)
Loco #11 rides one of the wyes with a passenger train about 1940,
including combine 18. #11 was the first wide firebox locomotive
on the line. She set the stage for the six wide firebox Mikados now
on the railroad. (RCS)
Three EBT steel hoppers await coal from the
RI&C Mine #1 tipple. (RCS)
Mikado #18 prepares to leave Mount Union.
The station is just to the right of the photo. (RCS)
#15 turns two coaches on the
Robertsdale Wye. Robertsdale Wye Bridge is
just beyond the concrete to the right. The date is likely summer 1955. (RCS)
#14 and one of the big mikes wait on the track by the
Blacksmith Shop. The
spur to the left leads into the storage lean-to. (RCS)
At Saltillo Tankhouse
#17 approaches from the south to fill her tender. On the side of the tank, a white
marker indicates the tank is nearly full. Also notice the very long
Maintenance-of-Way car on the section car track. Does anyone know what this long car
was for? (RCS)
#16 pauses at Saltillo Tankhouse
to fill her tender. She is hauling
loaded hoppers toward Mount Union. (RCS)
Two of the large mikes meet at Saltillo. The conductor near us is
about to hand orders to the other train. (RCS)
By the Merchandise Transfer
in Mount Union, standard gauge hoppers with range coal
await transfer to the Pennsy while narrow gauge boxcars and flats await
duty. (RCS)
Standard gauge switcher #3 shuffles a tank car toward the Pennsylvania
Railroad connection. (RCS)
#6 waits on the lead to her stall in the enginehouse. Behind is the
Mount Union merchandise transfer. (DEM)
#6 is parked in front of the tankhouse at Mount Union. (DEM)
#16 waters at the
Mount Union Tankhouse. Coupled to her is combine 15
and the Mount Union Enginehouse
for the standard gauge switchers is in the background. (RCS)
#18 fills her tender tank at the
Robertsdale Tankhouse.
To the left is the RI&C mine #5 tipple. (RCS)
An Erie gondola, having been changed from standard gauge to narrow gauge trucks at the
Timber Transfer,
sets in the Rockhill Yard north of the
Coal Bunker. (RCS)
The Timber Transfer
seems to have a standard gauge gondola waiting
for its services. (RCS)
In the Rockhill Yard,
passenger combine 18 waits for
a call to duty. It now rests, truckless, in Colorado. To the
left is the only EBT fishbelly flat car. (RCS)
#14 heads into her stall after a day's work hauling coal.
The date is about 1948. (RCS)
The M-3 was rebuilt by the Rockhill Shops from a 1928 Nash.
Here, sometime prior to 1956, she is pulling a depressed
center MOW car for a brush cutter. (RCS)
The business parlor car 20, the Orbisonia, is in the
Mount Union dual gauge yard.
She may be part of the 1951 railfan excursion. (RCS)
#14 rides the Turntable about 1954. (RCS)
The Mount Union Coal Transfer Plant
and Timber Transfer a few years after
the abandonment. (RCS)
#15 readies herself for the next leg of this 1951 railfan excursion. Notice the railfans in the cab. (RCS)
It's 1951 and the EBT is in service. The railfan excursion of that year is behind #15 as she emerges from the south portal of Sideling Hill Tunnel on the way to Robertsdale. (RCS)
The 1951 excursion train is turning on the Robertsdale Wye. The buildings are (l to r) a miners home, RI&C Company Store, Robertsdale Station, RI&C Offices, RI&C Company Post Office and Robertsdale Enginehouse. (RCS)
#15 and the 1951 railfan trip head through Allenport toward Mount Union. The three rail track extended to the south end of Allenport. (RCS)
