It's a Steel!!

The locomotive pictured on the front of this post card is a Baldwin AS-616.

The AS616 was Baldwin's most powerful six-axle model, in terms of both horsepower – 1600 h.p. and tractive effort - up to 78,750 pounds. The Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton AS616 began production the fall of 1950 and was the third model it offered in its "All Service" series, which was part of its new Standard line of road switchers. It was a 1,600 horsepower, C-C design that utilized the 608A model prime mover, the latest and final engine it offered. It was also the lightest C-C road switcher design on the market at the time, weighing just 164 tons. It was so popular that 221 units were sold This particular unit has serial number 91and the construction number is 75758. It was completed on July 31, 1952. https://www.american-rails.com/ From this website Adam Burns tells us the information about the locomotive, above and about the Railroad Company and its history, below. The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad was a regional system based in western Pennsylvania that connected Bessemer, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh) with the Lake Erie port of Conneaut, Ohio. The history of the Bessemer & Lake Erie dates as far back as the Bear Creek Railroad, chartered on March 20, 1865. A few years later the company changed its name as the Shenango & Allegheny Railroad on April 9, 1867. The railroad slowly expanded southward connecting to Harrisville in July of 1872 and Hilliards in January of 1876. In 1883 the main line was opened beyond Pardoe to Butler and one final extension was carried out before the road's 1888 reorganization. The present day Bessemer & Lake Erie received its name in 1900 when it formally leased the Pittsburgh, Bessemer & Lake Erie created through the merger of the Pittsburgh, Shenango & Lake Erie and Butler & Pittsburgh. In 1901 the Bessemer became a sister road with the Minnesota ore hauler Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range when the Dale Carnegie steel interests were purchased by the United States Steel Corporation, which had taken over the DM&IR some years prior.

This post card is another of the post cards in my collection from Audio Visual Designs in Earlton, New York. It is one of 333 cards in my collection from them. They are the publisher from whom I have the largest number of post cards. The photo was taken Paul M. Penney.