Short Line Report
The Short Line #228 - 11
Electric Locomotives of the Iowa Traction Railway and Its Predecessors (Limited to freight roster presently on the property as of December 16, 2014)
Present Identifier Builder Year Built Prior Service History
Dead Weight
Unit No. 60
Baldwin-Westinghouse
1917
MC&CL; Iowa Terminal
120,000 lbs.
Unit No. 54
Baldwin-Westinghouse
1923
Iowa Southern; Iowa Terminal
100,000 lbs.
Unit No. 50 (2nd) Baldwin-Westinghouse 1920
Washington & Old Dominion, CRANDIC, KAW
50-ton
Unit No. 51 Baldwin-Westinghouse 1921
NE Oklahoma, CRANDIC, Iowa Terminal
50-ton
Unit No. 53 Texas Electric 1928
Originally in utility service, transferred to Charles City & Western since 1974 it has been at Mason City, unit is presently in storage
Source: Adapted from table appearing in “Iowa’s Trolleys” by Robert J. Levis and Norman Carlson, 1975, published by Central Electric Railfan Assn., Chicago, IL, Library of Congress #73-9093, pp 285.
TOP: Iowa Traction Railway headed East towards Clear Lake Junction and the UP interchange. Iowa Traction was pulling a cut of loaded scrap cars from Behr Iron and Metal at Emery, Iowa. Photograph by Michael Johns