The below photo showed up on Facebook's "Abandoned Rails" group this morning:
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My father who worked for Bethlehem Steel took this photo while working down at Sparrows Point Navy Yard in the 1970's. A bit of history now a memory. He was laid off in the early 1980's. He past away in 1989 from a Asthma attack and I found this with his things.
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Now, never mind that the Navy never had its own yard at Sparrows Point (Beth Steel just built big boats for them and others there), so we can probably "scratch" former military switchers. The fact that an 0-6-0ST supposedly survived into the 1970s in a town with active rail preservationists and a rail museum sort of seems incredulous--though, yes, Sparrows Point was generally "off limits" to the general public. This also doesn't match any loco in the list of "Recently Scrapped Steam Locomotives" in the back of Conrad's 1987 Steam Locomotive Directory of North America. Note also what appears to be a CB radio antenna atop the cab. The cranes in the background are reminiscent of dockside cranes, some of which are still present at the now-derelict shipyard.
Can anyone ID this as any survivor elsewhere, or at least narrow this down a bit?
(Photo from the collection of the late Donald F. McGowan Sr., posted by Donald F. McGowan Jr. at Facebook)
