Mystery Units

Maybe you can help identify these units. The goal is to gather enough info to determine the construction number of each. Any clues at all will help. e-mail Baldwin Diesel Zone

Photo by: David Hutchinson S. Plainfield NJ - 7/1983

US Navy #3 VO1000 "That unit was sitting on an abandoned coal company siding on the LV mainline in South Plainfield, NJ. This unit and the water car just showed up and then left." - DH

photo by: Kim Piersol Reading, PA - 10/1969

First 7872 DS4-4-660 c/n 73807, b/d 11/48 - built as PRR 9212 - renumbered 7872 - reported cut up just after the merger (February 1, 1968)

Second 7872 DS4-4-660 c/n 73637, b/d 8/48 - built as PRR 9115 - renumbered 7815 - became PC 7815 then renumbered 7872

CECO 7 VO1000 c/n ?, b/d ? - looks like ex ATSF

Speculation

photo credit: Owen Leander - collection of Mark Laundry Lemont, IL - June 25, 1970

LSX 221 VO1000 c/n ?, b/d ? - looks like ex ATSF, see ATSF features page

We know it's ex ATSF, and it's early (curved fairing, single stack). Now the number 221 may have some relevance. Santa Fe's VO1000's were 2201-2259 2201-2206, round grill, batz trucks The only units with "221" in them were 2210-2219 and 2221. 2210 ret 4 Apr '70 2211, 2213, 2217, 2218 ret 30 Mar '71 2112, 2215, 2216, 2219 2221 ret 31 Mar '65 2114 ret 28 Jun '68 Only one ATSF VO 1000 had a second owner, 2221, Metal Processing Inc, No #, Anthony, TX 2221 was retired wearing Black with silver zebra stripes, the striping on CECO 221 matches this pattern. My vote, CECO Steel is ex MPI nee ATSF 2221, S/N 67744. -Thanks to Robert Lambrecht

CB&Q or BRC Baldwin photo from Bulletin #193 This is a touched-up Baldwin photo from a 1945 sales brochure.

CB&Q because: BRC 401, blt 7/42 would have had the round faring between the battery box and cab. It did have a single stack though. BRC 402, blt 11/44 was the first multi stack (2) VO-1000. It's builders photo shows a different paint scheme than the Q's (The Diesel Builders Volume #3, pg 65) All CB&Q VO's were built with a single stack, this one would be from the second order, without the curved faring mentioned above. The photo in question shows a blanked out number panel at the top of the radiator screen, it appears that the BRC's did not have this as built. The retouch required making the dashed frame stripe solid and the two color upper stripe one color. So it is highly likely from the second Q order, 9358-9379. -Thanks to Robert Lambrecht

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PC 8320 S12 c/n 75949, b/d 2/54 - built for PRR as #8104, renumbered 8134 - to PC then renumbered 8320

photo by: Lon Coone Wildwood FL. - June 11, 1986

V - TRAN RR VO1000 c/n 69778, b/d 11/43 - built as CB&Q #9350 - to ACL, became SCL 85, see CB&Q to ACL/SCL Roster - to Lemac

Crane #2 c/n 75289, b/d 12/51 - recently auctioned see US Navy Photo and Roster page

Jacksonville Port Authority 102 DS4-4-1000(SC) c/n 74597, b/d 4/1949 - built for Atlanta & West Point as #677

LEMAC 1501 DS4-4-1000(SC) c/n 75107, b/d 1/1951 - built for SAL as #1461 - to SCL as #73

Youngstown Sheet & Tube 882 S8 c/n 75496, b/d 2/52 - purchased new by YS&T as #802 for Indiana Harbor Works