I don't know for a fact if it was a steam backshop, but the Pere Marquette maintained a major shop complex at it's Wyoming yard in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The large building still extant just west of the roundhouse site has the appropriate shape for a backshop.
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CSSHEGEWISCH Minor correction: MKT shop was in Parsons KS, don't know about KCS.
Minor correction: MKT shop was in Parsons KS, don't know about KCS.
The KATY RR Shop facility at Parsons, Kansas was more or less in the Center(?) of the KATY System[ Parsons (Ks) was named for Levi Parsons]... Main Building at one time was about a mile long; capable of building and rebuilding whatever the KATY needed...Building has been partially demolished, and resides on UPRR property, with other rail related tennants.
Then there was the WARDEN SHOPS located at the KATY's Bellemeade(?) Yard, at Waco,TX. A facility that could build and repair steam locomotives.
Here is a link to a FORUM Thread with links to videos and discussions of activities at the Warden Shops @ http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/740/t/208233.aspx
KATY also had some facilities in the former Company HQ at St. Louis,Mo. Missouri also has The KATY Trail over parts of its former ROW with a State facility in Sedalia, Mo...
You can call This a P.S. KCS RR-
The KCS RR in Pittsburg (no"h' on the end . It i(was) approximately halfway in its journey towards the Gulf. There a lot of history in SE Kansas; and even today Pittsburg is important as a major point of maintenance and supply [Railroad Back Shop? maybe?]
It came south as the Kansas City Pittsburg & Gulf RR . A local entrepreneur Franklin went to KC and spoke with Arthur Stillwell, and convinced Stiullwell by dint of land guarentees to build into Pittsburg. The Hotel on Broaway still bears the name of Stillwell. The draw to get the railroad was also local minerals. Lead, Zinc, and Coal ( Weir-Pittsburg Coal Seam). See @ http://pittsburgksmemories.com/Pittsburg_Transportation/pitttransportkcs.html
The availability of coal drew not only the KSC, but also SLSF and AT&SF to come into Pittsburg. At one point there were about 28 [Lead & Zinc] smelters in Pittsburg. Not to mention about 110 miles of Interurbans that serviced the area and its coal camps. Pittsburg is also home of WATCO Corp, and its Operations.
N&W - Roanoke, Va. and Portsmouth, Oh.
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You can add Delano PA to the Lehigh Valley. They erected quite a few locomotives there.
Amtrak's Beech Grove Shops (Indiana)were built on the property of a former NYC back shop.
Tom
Don't forget Canada, here's a few from north of the border:
Canadian National: Transcona (Winnipeg), MB, Stratford, ON, Point St. Charles (Montreal), QC.
Canadian Pacific: Ogden (Calgary), AB and Angus (Montreal), QC. They also planned to build one at North Transcona, MB about a mile north of CN's but I don't think it was ever fully completed.
Pacific Great Eastern: Squamish, BC. Not sure if this one qualifies as a full steam backshop, but it was the only large shop on the railroad and seemed capable of doing every kind of repair.
I think there were more but my non-eidetic memory has failed me once again. I was also going to add their American subisiduaires but I see you have already covered the SOO and GTW.
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NYC Collinwood (Cleveland) OH. C&NW's shop in Chicago was 40th Avenue, not 40th Street. 40th Avenue was later renamed Crawford Avenue, and is today's Pulaski Road.
PRR Dennison, Ohio (until around the 1920's); B&O/BR&P Dubois, PA.; ACL Rocky Mount, NC; Southern Railway, Spencer, NC.
You're doing good! Must be a labor of love!
Here's some for the Midwest and South Central--GTW-Battle Creek, MI NYC(MC)-Jackson, MI NYC(Big 4)- Beech Grove, IN NKP-Lima, OH C&NW-40th St Chicago, IL RI-Silvis, IL IC-Paducah, KY CB&Q-West Burlington, IA MILW-Milwaukee, WI SOO-Shoreham, MN WC-Fon du Lac, WI C&EI-Danville, IL Monon-Lafayette, IN DM&IR-Proctor, MN DM&IR-Two Harbors, MN MP-Sedalia, MO WAB-Decatur, IL L&N-South Louisville, KY SSW-Pine Bluff,AR SLSF-Springfield, MO KCS-Parsons, KS T&P-Marshall, TX AT&SF-Topeka, KS MKT-???
I'm trying to create a list of all system steam backshops from the era of 1900-1960. Here's a start for the Northeast. I'll continue with other regions and people can throw in additions and corrections.
MEC-Waterville, ME BAR-Derby, ME B&M-Billerica, MA B&A-West Springfield, MA, NH-Readville, MA D&H-Colonie, NY NYC-West Albany, NY RDG-Reading, PA DL&W-Scranton, PA, CNJ-Elizabethport, NJ Erie-Hornell, NY PRR-Altoona, PA PRR-Renovo, PA B&LE-Greenville, PA BR&P-Dubois, PA B&O-Glenwood, PA LV-Sayre, PA B&O-Glenwood, PA B&O-Cumberland, MD B&O-Mt Clare, MD NKP-Conneaut, OH W&LE-Brewster, OH PRR-Columbus, OH NYC-Collinwood, OH
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