Right. I could see the depot itself. My thinking it might be other than a baggage room, was because it appears to be somewhat seperated from the depot. Boxcab E50
I wonder if maybe at one time that building may have been an REA building. REA used to be really everywhere, particularly along the C&O.
That's certainly possible. Does it have loading dock doors? As though items would be transloaded to trucks? Boxcab E50
Good excuse for a trip? Ha ha! Betcha if it does have them, we may have the building use correct. BTW- Been meaning to ask- You've noted BL2 engines a couple of times. How many did they have? Where they ever repainted? Am trying to recall any picture I've seen. Was the "as delivered" scheme with some blue and yellow, "C&O" and RR name scripted out along the side? Boxcab E50
The Pere Marquette had originally ordered 6 BL2s, but C&O took control before delivery so they were dark blue (Enchantment Blue) with yellow (Venetian Yellow) "fenders", with imitation stainless paint on the bottom half of the fenders. These were numbers 80 through 85, and lettered with Chesapeake and Ohio in script. C&O actually ordered 8 more after that. Later on in life some were repainted in what they call the Huntington paint scheme, which was blue with silver-gray along the bottom half of the fenders.
C&O BL2 #82 in August 1960. Note that it has been repainted, because "fenders" are no longer all yellow. Gene Huddleston photo. Courtesy of the C&O Historical Society.
Another on the mini-crew copy form. Not as messy as some others. I'm guessing this might be a mine run? Saunders, West Virginia: Boxcab E50
Here's a town with an interesting name! I'd like to know it's origin. Sebewaing, Michigan: Boxcab E50
What is/was the "CL&W Subdiv?" Am betting that CL&W are the initials of a predecessor company? Sterling, Ohio: Boxcab E50
Sebewaing is Algonquin (Indian) for something like "little river". This is a small town over in the thumb of Michigan in Huron County. I think it was called "the sugar capital of Michigan" because they used to process sugar beets there.
Order 4 Sept. 25, 1984 - engine 6402 B&O GP9 (no record of number 6400, so probably never existed). Order 34 Jan. 27, 1959 - engine 105 E7A, engine 4009 E8A. Order 201 Mar. 10, 1970 - Staunton Virginia - most people pronounce it STANton. Order 634 June 8, 1987 - CL&W - this was the Cleveland, Lorain, and Wheeling Railway, which was formerly B&O. Order 2 Oct. 31, 1969 - Strathmore Virginia: C&O’s Piedmont Subdivision connected to the Rivanna Subdivision of the James River Line at Strathmore. C&O built the Virginia Air Line Railroad to make the connection. This line could accommodate cars that were too big for some of the older tunnels in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
This order shows the dispatcher made a mistake. The why, we'd never know. I've seen examples of these from many, many railroads. mg: Boxcab E50
