Birmingham Southern - BSRR

In 1984 the Birmingham Southern (then owned by US Steel) inherited its Baldwins from the
US Steel Tennessee Coal & Iron Divison in Birmingham AL when it shut down its transportation
unit which had switched the Fairfield Works. The BSRR units were labed with an "X" meaning
that they were not to be used off site. [5]

VO1000

BRSS 332
Photo by: Richard Lorntzen
- collection of Mark Laundry
Birmingham, AL - April 6, 1986 		332

VO1000
c/n 72231, b/d 06/1946

- built for TCI&RR as #801
- became USS Fairfield Works #132
- EMD repowered by USS
- became BSRR #332


BRSS 333
Photo by: Doug Boyd
- Jim Aldridge collection via David Baer
Birmingham, AL - 4/6/86 		333

VO1000
c/n 72230, b/d 06/1946

- built for TCI&RR as #800
- became USS Fairfield Works #133
- EMD repowered by USS
- became BSRR #333

S12

BSRR 325
photo by: John C. Benson
- collection of Mark Laundry
Fairfield, AL - Apr. 13, 1987 		325

S12
c/n 75016, b/d 10/1950

- build for TCI&RR as #1204
- became USS Fairfield Works #125
- EMD repowered by USS
- to Birmingham Southern as #325

AS616

BSRR 366
photo by: Unknown
- collection of Mark Laundry
Birmingham, AL - Apr. 1976 		366

AS616
c/n 75169, b/d 2/1951

- build for TCI&RR as #1505
- became USS Fairfield Works 166
- EMD repowered by USS
- to Birmingham Southern as #366

  • see USS Fairfield Works 167 which became BSRR #367



    data source: [5] bibliography

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