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CSS 902 |
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Photo By Tom Golden, date estimated |
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10/1/1962 Upload Date: 4/20/2009 8:15:02 PM |
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Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Ryan Kertis |
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| Locomotives: |
CSS 902(Steeple Cab) CSS 900(Steeple Cab) |
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CSS 900 - Chicago, South Shore & South Bend |
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This steeplecab seems stuck in a storage line of others in the Michigan City yard back in 1963. No photographer was listed. |
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8/7/1963 Upload Date: 5/17/2014 12:44:15 PM |
| Location: |
Salem, IN |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
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CSS 900(Steeple Cab) |
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372 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
South Shore Line #900 at Shops |
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12/26/1963 Upload Date: 10/28/2008 6:40:47 PM |
| Location: |
Michigan City, IN |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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CSS 900(Steeple Cab) |
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903 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CSS&SB Baldwin-Westinghouse 900 |
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CSS&SB Baldwin-Westinghouse Class E 900 at Michigan City, Indiana on February 16, 1964, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 900 was built by Baldwin-Westinghouse in 1929 for the Illinois Central as number 10000 as a result of the City of Chicago's smoke abatement ordinance in the downtown area (requiring the IC to electrify its suburban service by 1927) and was acquired by the South Shore in 1941 when the IC dieselized its Congress and 31st Street Yards in Chicago. The construction of the four IC Class E's (Class E is a Westinghouse designation) followed the South Shore's intiial order for four Class E's (road #'s 1001-1004) in 1926, specifically designed by Westinghouse to meet the South Shore's specifications. During 1927 the South Shore followed up on it's initial order with an order for two more Class E's in 1927 (#'s 1007-1008), and again during 1928 for two more (#'s 1009-1010). Baldwin designed an outside equalized truck for the South Shore orders, but for the IC order, it used its traditional steam locomotive tender truck design. The following is from Joseph Strapac's book, "Interurban Electric Locomotives": One of the reasons that there was a Baldwin-Westinghouse at all was because Baldwin was so successful as an integrated manufacturer. Baldwin had sufficient capacity in its tender shop in downtown Phildelphia that it could easily underbid any proposed assembly by Westinghouse's own forces out in East Pittsburgh. Baldwin built the structure of each locomotive riveting together and empty box with trucks and couplers (and at least rudimentary train air brakes) based on the familiar technology of locomotive tenders. The frame itself was assembled from standard steel shapes, with heavy Baldwin castings at each end to tie everything together. Even the trucks themselves were adapted from tender trucks used beneath thousands of Baldwin-built steam locomotive tenders. Windows and a host of other appurtenances would be installed, then the locomotive-to-be would be shunted out to the interchange track. It would be handed off to a line-haul railroad and waybilled (as if it were a freight car) across Pennsylvania to the East Pittsburgh Works of Westinghouse. Westinghouse installed and tested electrical gear at East Pittsburgh. The locomotives would be finish-painted (they left Baldwin in primer), tested and otherwise prepared for delivery. A short stretch of adjustable-voltage overhead behind the Works allowed road testing (and publicity photographs) when the locomotive was complete. This track was historically "pantograph country", so locomotives destined for customers who used only trolley poles or third rail were often pictured at this site fitted with pantographs - which would be removed prior to shipment. |
| Photo Date: |
2/16/1964 Upload Date: 10/16/2010 12:52:21 PM |
| Location: |
Michigan City, IN |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CSS 900(Steeple Cab) |
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1323 Comments: 0 |
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CSS Interurban #26, Freight Motor #901 & Line car 1100 |
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This is an interested trio of Chicago, South Shore & South Bend items caught at the Michigan City Shops area. To the left corner is CSS interurban #26, one of the Pullman cars built in 1926. In the center of the photo is CSS freight motor #901. This electric steeplecab was built by Baldwin/Westinghouse in 1929 as IC #10001. The CSS acquaired it in 1941. Finally to the the far right is CSS maintenance of way line car #1100 rebuilt from an indiana Railroad interurban car. This is a photo from the orignal negative that Lawrence H. Boehning took over 67 years ago! |
| Photo Date: |
5/8/1958 Upload Date: 2/8/2024 3:52:22 PM |
| Location: |
Michigan City, IN |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Track |
| Locomotives: |
CSS 26(Interurban) CSS 901(Steeple Cab) CSS 1100(Trolley) |
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96 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CSS&SB 902 |
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CSS&SB Baldwin-Westinghouse Class E 902 at Michigan City, Indiana on October 23, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 902 was built in September 1929 (c/n 61048) as Illinois Central 10002. In 1941 the South Shore obtained the four Class E's built for the IC (#'s 10000-10003), renumbering them 900-903. One of the results was that every B-W Class E ever built was on the South Shore's roster. They were designed for a top speed of 45 mph and weighed over 90 tons. Baldwin constructed the carbodies in their tender shops in Philadelphia, using standard tender structural components, shipped the empty shells on modified tender trucks to Pittsburgh where Westinghouse installed the electrical systems, tested, then sold them to customers, the IC in this case. Baldwin was merely a contract supplier. |
| Photo Date: |
10/23/1965 Upload Date: 2/2/2016 2:01:39 PM |
| Location: |
Michigan City, IN |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CSS 902(Steeple Cab) |
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437 Comments: 0 |
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CSS&SB 903 |
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CSS&SB Baldwin Westinghouse 903 parked at Michigan City, Indiana on February 16, 1964, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 903 was built in September 1929 (c/n 61047) cataloged as a Class E. The body was built by Baldwin in their tender shops and then shipped to Westinghouse for installation of the electrical apparatus. It was delivered to the Illinois Central in January 1930, numbered IC 10001, and used in the Congress Street and 31st Street yards. This was one of four such locomotives (IC 10000-10003) designed to comply with Chicago's smoke abatement laws. The IC changed to diesel locomotives in 1940, and the electric locomotives were sold to a dealer in Hammond, Indiana, who sold all four to the South Shore for $30,000.00 each. The South Shore had previously acquired their own Class E locomotives from the same builder(s) and with the acquisition of the IC's locomotives became the sole owner of all the Class E's ever built. |
| Photo Date: |
2/16/1964 Upload Date: 6/15/2015 2:37:52 PM |
| Location: |
Michigan City, IN |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CSS 903(Steeple Cab) |
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361 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CSS 1012 and 1013 |
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4/19/1958 Upload Date: 11/27/2011 1:35:08 AM |
| Location: |
Michigan City, IN |
| Author: |
Tom Golden |
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CSS 1012(Steeple Cab) CSS 1013(Steeple Cab) |
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1162 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
South Shore Line #1012 at Shops |
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| Photo Date: |
12/26/1963 Upload Date: 10/28/2008 6:40:47 PM |
| Location: |
Michigan City, IN |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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CSS 1012(Steeple Cab) |
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890 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CSS&SB GE 1013 |
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CSS&SB GE 1013 at Michigan City, Indiana on October 23, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Previous orders for South Shore freight locomotives had been placed with Baldwin, with electrical gear supplied by Westinghouse (road #'s 1001-1010). By 1929, GE took note of this sudden spike in the competitor's business and entered the bidding on the next batch when the South Shore asked for proposals. Whether any profit was earned is a good question, but nonetheless General Electric was awarded the contract for CSS&SB #'s 1011-1013, and they were erected and equipped by GE at Erie, Pennsylvania. As delivered, these locomotives also had a trolley pole (the reason for the offset pantograph) and third rail collection devices, and were designed to operate on South Shore's 1500 VDC or Samuel Insull's other two Chicago railroads (CNS&M and CA&E) 600 VDC, although there is no evidence that these locomotives ever left CSS&SB rails. Lookalikes (GE engineers drew up their own blueprints, the GE's had four front windows instead of Baldwin's three) for the Baldwin-Westinghouse Class E motors, #'s 1011-1013 were set up to run in multiple with them as well. They were shipped by GE between December 1929 and November 1930, all were retired in January 1967 and scrapped by Precision Engineering. |
| Photo Date: |
10/23/1965 Upload Date: 10/17/2010 11:40:59 AM |
| Location: |
Michigan City, IN |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CSS 1013(Steeple Cab) CSS 1012(Steeple Cab) |
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2709 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
South Shore Line #1013 at Shops |
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1/27/1964 Upload Date: 10/28/2008 6:40:48 PM |
| Location: |
Michigan City, IN |
| Author: |
Marty Yernard |
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CSS 1013(Steeple Cab) |
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789 Comments: 0 |
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CSS Steeplecab #1014 - Chicago, South Shore & South Bend |
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As the placard on the front states, this was a fan trip by the Illinois Central RR Service Booster Club of Chicago on the CSS with steeplecab #1014 heading it up. #1014 was built by Baldwin/Westinghouse in 1931. Specs - 80-ton, BB wheel configuration, 1600hp. I assume that photo credit goes to "Dunk: :Hanft". This is a new entry in the RRPA data base. |
| Photo Date: |
2/1/1958 Upload Date: 9/24/2017 11:16:54 AM |
| Location: |
New Carlisle, IN |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Passenger,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSS 1014(Steeple Cab) |
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472 Comments: 0 |
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