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In 1936, Washington Dillon's son, P.W. Dillon, installed two electric furnaces and rolling machines in the barbed wire factory in order to make low carbon steel. Two years later the company became known as Northwestern Steel and Wire. The systems and furnaces were successively upgraded in the ensuing years.
Northwestern Steel and Wire locomotive number 80, July 1964. The first diesel-electric locomotives appeared on the Central Railroad of New Jersey in 1925 and on the New York Central in 1927. Moving forward, diesel locomotives began to appear in mainline service in the United States in the mid-1930s. [2]
English: Northwestern Steel & Wire locomotive 80 pushes cars of scrap metal into the mill on a warm night in July, 1964. NS&W empolyed a single person as both engineer (driver) and fireman for its locomotives. This person could not tend the fire while the locomotive was in motion, a practise which did not contribute to smoke-free operation!
Northwestern Steel and Wire Company [11] Graysonia Nashville and Ashdown 26 2-6-0 Mogul Steam locomotive Baldwin Locomotive Works: 1926 Display Private owner Green Bay and Western 2407 Alco RSD15: Diesel Locomotive American Locomotive Company: 1960 Operational Green Bay and Western Railroad: Illinois Central 201: 2-4-4T: Steam Locomotive
Ogle Winston Link [1] (December 16, 1914 – January 30, 2001), known commonly as O. Winston Link, was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photography and sound recordings of the last days of steam locomotive railroading on the Norfolk and Western in the United States in the late 1950s.
The following year, Baldwin Steam Engine #73 was retired and moved to the south lawn along with a tender and caboose. Until its retirement, the engine was operational at Northwestern Steel & Wire, and was the last working steam engine in the United States used in an industrial application. Dillon Home Steam Engine
Sterling is a city in Whiteside County, Illinois, United States, along the Rock River.The population was 14,782 at the 2020 census, down from 15,370 in 2010.Formerly nicknamed "Hardware Capital of the World", the city has long been associated with manufacturing and the steel industry.
ex-Eel River and Eureka Railroad #3 then San Francisco and Northwestern Railway #3 renumbered from #151 1914 scrapped 1916 352 Baldwin Locomotive Works 2-6-0: 1886 8092 ex-Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad #65>#314 then Santa Fe Railroad #0179 then San Francisco and Northwestern Railway #5 renumbered from #152 1914 scrapped 1929 353-354