A Facebook post here by a page called Drone Ohio made earlier this week states that a scrapping company has been hired to cut up the last two Hulett Ore Unloaders, which have been sitting disassembled on Whiskey Island in Cleveland for many years. Of far less historical significance, but of more relevance to this particular page, are the three narrow-gauge electric-powered car pushers shown above, which have long sat in the shadow of the giant Huletts. The photo above is from Drone Ohio.
The three car pushers are 3'6" gauge and two, PRR 1 and PRR 2, are already on the PNAERC list. The third is on my "mystery equipment" list because I've never been able to find a fleet number, builder, or date for it. Anyone know?
Regardless, these car pushers (also known as "mules" and probably other nicknames) worked the PRR docks here at Whiskey Island for many years and were retired in the 1980s or very early 1990s. I think it's safe to assume that if the Huletts get hauled off in scrap dumpsters, this trio will go with them.
While I was looking at car pushers on the PNAERC list, I also reviewed the other four. I believe there are six of these things on the list - five narrow-gauge PRR examples and this thing, which is standard gauge, has an MCB coupler on the back, and wears a pantograph. But of the three PRR ones extant outside of Whiskey Island, I did make a change to PRR 7 at the Lake Shore Railway Museum. The LSRM website lists this locomotive as "most likely" built around 1910 by Atlas. But it's virtually identical to the other Baldwin/Westinghouse-built car pushers, and those unusual over-the-journal-box equalizer bars were used on Baldwin streetcar trucks in the 1900s and 1910s too, so I've changed this one to list B/W as the builder instead of Atlas. Does anyone have an actual roster of these things?
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