A co-worker engineer mentioned to me the other day that there is a rusting steam engine in Baltimore that apparently can only be seen from the Marley Neck branch of CSX near Curtis Bay. Does anybody know anything about this engine?

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> A co-worker engineer mentioned to me the
> other day that there is a rusting steam
> engine in Baltimore that apparently can only
> be seen from the Marley Neck branch of CSX
> near Curtis Bay. Does anybody know anything
> about this engine?

Tell your co-worker to get some more sleep and stop working the night shift.

There is no doubt in my mind that the "steam engine" in question (assuming he means a locomotive and not a stationary engine, etc.) is a well-vandalized, well-abandoned ex-military Davenport center-cab switcher left in the brambles at the former Striegel scrap yards. You'll find it (after much work with chainsaws) to the west side of the serpentine trackage past Quarantine Road, just to the north of the bridge carrying I-695 towards the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Now, truth be told, there WERE steam locomotives here many eons ago--Reading 2101 and 2100 came out of this same scrapyard, as did B&O 5300 and 4500, now at the B&O Museum. In later years, this yard held a motley and varied collection of diesels, including an ex-PRR Alco RS1, lots of Baldwin switchers, a Baldwin Shark B-unit, a PRR E7B, and more.

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