[PRR-talk] Westinghouse Shipments

[BBReynolds at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/30/2008 2:43:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
cizzo1 at comcast.net writes:

Steam  turbines were shipped from the Lester Plant (Chester, PA) on the 
Chester  & Philadelphia Branch.



The Westinghouse South Philadelphia works are in Tinicum Township (just 
northwest off the end of the runways at Philadelphia International  Airport), 
with a post office name of Lester, but many miles from Chester City. The 
plant is being converted into the Tinicum Industrial Park. It was serviced  
by 
the PRR line which now circles the Airport, and by the Reading line to 
Marcus Hook, a chunk of which is now part of the SEPTA Airport line, and 
possibly also by the B & O (will have to check some old Reading maps to 
verify). In addition to ship turbines (for example on the battleships USS  
Indiana 
and USS Alabama, both of which were build in Norfolk, and the latter of  
which 
can be viewed in Mobile), the plant made the latter run of Westinghouse  
Diesel 
locomotives, a good portion of the PRR P5a electrics (with mechanicals  by 
Baldwin), and electric parts of Baldwin Diesels and steam turbine rail  
locomotives. 
In more recent years, as Westinghouse dithered away, the plant made  electric 
power switchgear. I do not think that anything made there would be part of  
the
Schnabel era of high & wide railroad movements. 
 
Bruce B. Reynolds, Trailing Edge Technologies, Glenside  PA



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