Remembering the Steam Days
Posted by Charles Snider on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Remembering the Steam Days 1953 brought on a lot of changes for the Monongahela Railway Company, a small but busy coal-hauling railroad in southwestern Pennsylvania, which operated from South Brownsville, Fayette County, to Fairmont, West Virginia, a distance of about seventy-three miles. Twenty-seven brand new Baldwin diesel electric roadÂ-switching locomotives arrived at the South Brownsville shops in 1953. They...read more