Bethlehem Steel Narrow Gauge

Taken during a test run in the spring of 2006, this is a view from the cab of former Bethlehem Steel Co. #21. This is a 20 ton Whitcomb diesel-electric locomotive built in 1941. It was restored to operation by Lehigh Valley Rail Management for the National Museum of Industrial History. The locomotive is not yet accessible to the public.

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[muslims7stay7out]

US made steel gone and Chinese krap to replace it...

[Narrowgaugefilms]

Excellent! You don't often see dual gauge trackage these days!

[sabresrock234]

@Boss302fan hopefully one day stuff will be made here again

[Boss302fan]

@sabresrock234 Unions. Plain and simple. Wages kept going up and up and up. Restrictions they put on what work they would and would not do kept getting tighter and tigher. They negotiated themselves right out of work.

[barrygkx]

@CarGuyZM10

Yes, it is in the Bethlehem plant located in Bethlehem, PA. I worked there for 31 years but did not make the video. Barry

[CarGuyZM10]

Is this in Bethlehem? Any idea when the stuff their will be on display?

[sabresrock234]

what happened to Made in America?

[Trainbrain1949]

What gauge is it? Looks a little narrow for 3'.

[TehAppleSauceMan]

For a little haiku

I live in pittsburgh

to see the big steel leave us

unemployment sucks

[ediirwin]

I hear that, Harald! There are too many Thomas the Tank Engines and Disney-esque operations around. Don't forget to add the train holdup with the western bad guys wearing bandanas and waving six-guns. They're pretty much a requirement out here in the west...

[HaraldFinster]

all gone - too sad :-(

I am afraid, that this beautiful monument will be turned int oa childish "Disney Land".

Thanks for preserving part of it at least as a video.

Harald

[rhblakeman]

I remember little "tug" engines (as we called them) at the Bethlehem Steel on 65th Street in Chicago back in the early 60's and on the spur track outside the Bedford Park yard going towards Midway Airport was a GE electric engine rebuild facility about 2 blocks from our house at 58th and Newland. Growing up on the west side of Chicago I've seen steam on up to big cross country diesels. I love trains, always will.