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Can anyone tell me the rationale behind the abandonment of the former B&O mainline across West Virginia? This has never made much sense to me. At first I didn't believe it believing instead that I must've misunderstood or something. This post probably should have been made in the Fallen Flag se...
While the idea of the preservation of East Washington #101 is a nice idea, there is previous history of an almost identical locomotive being discarded and scrapped at the B&O RR Museum. The B&O GE 45-ton switcher (I forget the number) that served the yards for years at Frederick, MD and late...
Why are the passenger cars named after counties in Southwestern Colorado? The original founder (Otto Mears) of what was once the Chesapeake Beach Railway, the shortened version of what later was to become the East Washington Railway, got his start in railroading in Colorado. I forget the name of th...
I am pleased to hear that the CMSL is thriving on the northern end. As for the southern end to Cape May, this might be old news but it seems like we will never see service on that segment ever again. From what I noticed last month, Lower Township (South of Rio Grande) has apparently paved over the ...
Just to add to "Wayside's" response, the upper line was the original line before the lower line was constructed. At the time of its construction in the 1850's/1860's, there wasn't that much traffic on this line to justify it being a two-track line. However, by the 1890's traffic had increa...
Did any or all of the 7600's have steam and communication signal lines for use on passenger trains? ... there was no mention of their being equipped with steam and communication signal lines, and I haven't seen mention elsewhere where they were so-equipped. So my thinking is no, they were not equip...
I suspect at a train size of 19 cars, if the EM-1 wasn't used for the assignment the train would have had to be double headed over the territory with two locomotives and two locomotive crews. Logical assumption. M&E trains on the B&O were always high priority, particularly coming out of Was...
Restoration on 1309 has been stopped for several months - WMSR is out of money to continue the restoration. Who could have foreseen this?????????????? Only those people who have a feel for the present-day exorbitant cost that it takes to restore ANY steam locomotive to operation. That is why the B&...
One of the volumes in the Morning Sun Books all-color photo series books by Bob Withers contains photos taken by him of this accident.
gokeefe wrote:CSX has recently proposed selling its line between Cincinnati and East St. Louis. Is this the former route of the B&O National Limited?Yes, unfortunately.
I suspect at a train size of 19 cars, if the EM-1 wasn't used for the assignment the train would have had to be double headed over the territory with two locomotives and two locomotive crews. Logical assumption. M&E trains on the B&O were always high priority, particularly coming out of Was...
Did any or all of the 7600's have steam and communication signal lines for use on passenger trains? My only book source dedicated solely to the EM-1 (Tom Dixon's softbound book that's chock full of photos, but a little limited on narrative), makes mention of those locomotives being used in the serv...
Not often. Here is my speculation based on location and how B&O operated at this particular time: It's quite probable that there was no smaller locomotive available at the time when such a timed train as this needed to get and keep moving, so the EM-1 likely was the only one available. A quick p...