02-11-2013, 11:59 AM
Herr Lutz - NSS is an excellent prototype for what you are showing. Through most of its existence, Newburgh & South Shore was owned by US Steel and provided inter-mill transfer movements; it also functioned as a short interchange/bridge route between several local railroads, particularly B&O, Erie, PRR and W&LE. The "Cleveland Memory" website is a huge resource of photographs, as you know. I grew up in Cleveland during the '60's and early '70's. Many of those old brick buildings in the photographs are still in existence, and many of the narrow streets are on steep hills climbing out of the Cuyahoga Valley. Conditions in that part of "The Flats" were very cramped. The last locomotives manufactured at Alco in Schenectady, NY were a pair of T-6's for the NSS. Excellent! Ric