The S&NY Newberry enginehouse is brand-new and freshly painted in last week’s “WW #83” . In the background is the car shop, also brand new. The rails have yet to be ballasted, as well. Photo dates from the time of construction of the facilities in Newberry, circa 1906. Contrast with the dilapidated appearance in the recent “WW’s” taken during abandonment some 36 years later.
Wordless Wednesday #83
RRMPA – Bradley-Hahn Collection
Talky Tuesday #54
“WW #82” of 2 weeks ago is a view of the S&NY Newberry enginehouse, presumably taken after abandonment in 1942. The smokejacks have been removed from the enginehouse, and there is a derelict tender tank off to the right. In the foreground, the “pipes” are probably discarded boiler flues.
Photo courtesy of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
Wordless Wednesday #82
RRMPA – Bradley-Hahn Collection
Talky Tuesday #53
“WW #81” from last week is a wide shot of the S&NY facilities at Newberry, I believe looking south, probably near the time of abandonment in 1942. Everything exudes an atmosphere of decrepitude: MoW bunk car #210 is looking the worse for wear, and a Model-T rail car is junked in the foreground. Still, we can get an overall sense of the layout of the place, with the engine house to the left and the car shop to the right.
Wordless Wednesday #81
Bradley-Hahn Collection – RRMPA
Talky Tuesday #52
Last week’s “WW #80” comes courtesy of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. This view shows flat cars nos. 1239 and 1235, probably at Newberry, PA sometime in the mid-late 1920’s.
In 1905, the S&NY rostered 80 36-foot flatcars numbered 401 to 500. I cannot account for the difference, unless some were lost in earlier wrecks. 21 “racked flats” listed as being 33 feet in length and numbered 601-699 are also present on the 1905 ORER. These were presumably used to haul hemlock tan-bark and lumber out of the large tracts of forest surrounding the S&NY.
By 1926, all but 6 were gone, and were renumbered between 705 and 726, with an outlier numbered 838.
Interestingly, by 1938 there were 7 flatcars on the roster, numbered 1230-1239. These measured 38 ft. 10 in. long, and therefore the cars in the photo are not renumbered survivors of the cars on the ORER from 30 years earlier, but must have been acquired in the interim between 1926 and 1938.
Likely these 7 were used as tie cars in MoW service, as evidenced by the old and new railroad ties in the foreground of the photo.
Wordless Wednesday #80
Bradley-Hahn Collection, RRMPA
Talky Tuesday #43
S&NY 2-6-0 #117 is again the subject of last weeks “WW #71”. I believe the setting is Newberry, with the Newberry car shop in the background.
Wordless Wednesday #71
Herb Trice photo – author’s collection
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