Hey guys, just a thought, whats everyones favorite B&O locomotive? Wether its steam or diesel, I think mine's quite aparent! I'll take an EM-1 with a S-1 on the side
Welcome Aboard Tim! Good to see a fellow B&O'er! Good choices! I too like the E-8's in the "passenger livery" I liked the GP-7's an GP-9's in the same paint, BUT I do like the double yellow strip with "Baltimore And Ohio" written out.....
Wow.... I don't know anything about the steam era engines.,.. I guess I'd have to vote for a diesel..... What are my "B&O accurate" choices??? Harold
Hmmm.... pre-Chessie??? I guess I'd have to vote for a GP30 with the "Sunburst" scheme on the nose! Harold
Harold, NICE CHOICE! I've grown to like that paint job myself, Altho I am in favor of the B&O paint scheme with the dual yellow pin stripes, with "Baltimore And Ohio" Witten out on an all blue loco! But then, I do like the passenger livery as well! But if it has to be a "dip" paint job, I like the Sunburst scheme! Just as you posted, an even then you posted it on the right loco too! I like the looks of the GP-30 (actually thats my favorite "GP" body style!)
I saw a GP30 in B&O paint about 5 or 6 years ago with a couple of GP38-2's. I wished I had a camera, was probably the last one still running on the system in B&O paint.
I think my favorite is the B&O's "George H. Emerson" #5600, the 4-4-4-4 with a backwards 2nd set of driving wheels. The only one of it's kind I believe.
I am not up on this topic....(Steam) but I thought the 4-4-4-4 design was of PRR convention.... how did it get to B&O???? Harold
More than one RR went the compound route, so that smaller cylinders and lighter rods could be used. Here's a link to B&O's George H. Emerson at George Elwood's Fallen Flags photo site. Whoops, thatwas supposed to be a link. Put the photo up instead with apologies to George Elwood.
The Pennsy 4-4-4-4s ('T-1'Classes) were neither compounds or articulateds. The same as the 'Emerson' .
You are right pjb. I thought that was the wrong term. What is the correct term for a loco with two sets of cylinders operating at the same pressure but independent from each other? Simple was the term for the Challengers & Big Boys.
The B&O's 4-4-4-4 was just a triplex, not a compound nor articulated, they just gave the loco 2 sets of cylinders, an big drivers for speed an the extra cylinders were for speed an power... Altho it was a mechanmical nightmare (the "Emerson" loco I mean it was in the shop more then it was out of the shop.
Jim, Just about ole buddy! I don't have the shop set up yet (not till spring time) but I'm as settled in as it gets, I would have been here sooner, just had trouble signing into the site with my user name, so. I would have been here a week ago if it wasn't for that. But thanks ole buddy for the welcome back! I'm back, an good to be back. And I tell ya I didn't want to leave "Sand Patch" behind so. But I do like the New England scenery, an all plus New Hampshire, is a better state as far as I can see then what Pennsylvania was! I actually like it here......
My favorite would be an early phase F3 in the grey, blue and black scheme. Chicken wire on the sides, before stainless steel grills were in style.
