Re: Maybe a hybrid Atlas Car & Mfg. Co. Cleveland, *LINK*

Some information and photographs of Atlas products can be found at:
[www.northeast.railfan.net]
Atlas built locomotives for industrial service as well as for use in steel mills and related industries. In addition to locomotives, they also manufactured electric (trolley) powered “scale cars” that were used to weigh, transport, and drop iron ore into the skip buckets of blast furnaces in steel mills.
If anybody wants an Atlas made locomotive, there are currently four of them available for donation in Philadelphia. Used by the Pennsylvania Railroad at Pier 122, they are “shunt” engines that ran on a 42” gauge track located between two standard gauge tracks. Arms swung down from the engines which then pushed standard gauge hopper cars on parallel tracks so that imported iron ore could be loaded into them. The locomotives are diesel-electric, being powered by a Cummins diesel. They were built in the 1950s, weigh 55 tons each, and ride on four wheels. I am working toward the preservation of one of the engines, so if anybody wants more information on them, feel free to contact me.