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Details of the MoW MTR X-1 crane |
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Montour #73
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Montour #79
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Montour #74
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Montour #80
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Montour #76
Let me tell you how the 76 got a new paint job. When the PL&E RR decided
to finally buy and bury the Montour in 1976, they had a big meeting with the
union personnel of the different union crafts on the Montour, they said the
engine was finally coming home again and I made the suggestion why not paint
it red, white and blue for the bicentennial since its number was 76,and low
and behold they agreed.
Back then Bob Scofield was working in the storeroom and he created the
design and it was painted in our shop. R.J. Lane |
Montour #81
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Montour #78
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Montour #84
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Montour #84
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Montour #77
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| SW9's #84 and 81 at
Coraopolis, PA on 10/19/80. When the online mines shut down, operations were
suspended in 1983 and the line abandoned in 1986.- Doug Kroll (www.rr-roadtrip.com) |
SW9's #77, 76 and 78 are
lined up outside the shops of this little coal-hauler at Coraopolis, PA on
September 20, 1980. #76 is still in it's bicentennial paint scheme. -
Doug Kroll (www.rr-roadtrip.com) |
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Glassport, Pennsylvania. Saturday October 21, 2006. Here's a photo from
RailPictures |
 
  
16-Oct-2006 I pointed the car opposite of Western Maryland country and
headed for Mahoning County, Ohio. Today's goal, find Montour wood caboose
42. Low and behold, in the Western Reserve Village of the Canfield,
Fairgrounds there sat Montour Wood Caboose #42. Built in 1929 by the
Standard Steel Car Company, Butler, Pennsylvania, Montour 42 stayed on
Montour RR property until 1956. In 1956 she went to the Y&S where she stayed
for a couple years before being donated to the Boy Scout Council, in
Mahoning County. I was just tickled seeing caboose 42. I have never seen one
of these particular class's of wood cabooses, until today. Other than her
steel work, this caboose is in pristine condition. Inside and out, she is
immaculate, other than her "Y&S" reporting marks. How do you tell the
caboose on display at the Canfield, Ohio Fairgrounds is actual "Montour"?
Check the truck side frame.
Clearly...through all of the rust, "M.R.R." is still evident.
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| Was in Glassport (Pa) this snowy Wednesday
morning (25-Jan-2006). Stopped at the former "Glassport River Terminal"
where a former Montour SW-7 works. Was surprised to see the river
terminal...now titled MonRiver something or another...vacant. No chains or
gates to deal with, so I drove right up to the SW-7. Looks as if it hasn't
been used in quite sometime. - Gene P. Schaeffer Montour #70 was
scrapped in Jun-2007. You can see the process here. |
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Here is a picture of an ex PRR hopper
that has been restenciled for the Montour a few years ago. It is
occasionally on photo freight trains. Its currently stored on a siding in
Dennison Ohio with some other vintage equipment. The Brown hoist crane
the MTR had is also sitting derelict at Dennison Ohio. It was owned by
the Briggs & Turvis Co. The Ohio
Central RR acquired it, but it may not be feasible to repair.
Not sure what will be done with it. The MTR stenciling is still visible,
but peeling badly. (Thanks Tim Sposato for the photo and details)
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Here is a photgraph of the #71 on the North Shop track at
Morgan Run Shops. It was down for a 92 day inspection and is back at
Sugar Creek, Ohio for brick yard switching during the evening hours. The
caboose it's coupled to is ex WM 1880, we use in the photo freight trains.
This picture was taken in 2005. (Thanks Tim Sposato for the photo and details)
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Caboose 36
Member Paul Wisnowski went to check out the caboose at Volant, PA and
sent a few pictures. Tht caboose sits in a line of box cars that had
been used as a series of retail shops - a strip mall if you will - but
Paul says they are all empty now. This is caboose # 36 - one of 6
ex-Union Pacific cabooses to work on the Montour starting in 1970.
It retains its # 36 - but I couldn't see any hint of the Montour Logo in
any of the pictures Paul sent.
The interior shows some of the benches and the coal stove - The
electrical panels and air conditioner were probably added when it became
a retail store. Also looks like a baseboard heater on the right hand
bench and linoleum flooring. And someone decided that a caboose should
be red - probably the same people that do barns. I don't know what kind
of store it housed.
If you want to see # 36 in its Montour days - check out Gene's book -
Pages 121 & 122. It is also in action on pages 57 + 133 + 141
Thanks for the pictures, Paul
Bryan Seip
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