dgoods, WELCOME ABOARD! Good to see others into the B&O! Feel free to search the site, an join in on conversations thats going on, any questions also feel free to ask them as I'm sure one of the staff members, or Administration can help, an on railroad (modeling or the real thing) I'm possitive someone can help you! Again, WELCOME to the family!
I guess I do have a question. Did the B&O ever own Alco RS-1 engines? I'm talking the B&O, not once they got swept up into the Chessie system.
I don't think the B&O had any Alco road switchers. Could be wrong though. My favorite B&O steamer, besides the EM-1, was the ever present Q4 Mike with a vandy tender. Kinda liked the 2-10-2's, too, with the twelve wheel vandys. Diesels? No contest...for me, it's the E-6 with that long nose, and very nice in the B&O's elegant Blue and Grey.. Ed
The B&O never had RS-1's...... They only had RSD-12's that were given to the B&O under the C&O control...... Otherwise the only ALCO stuff they had was switchers....
7600 EM1, the B&O had a modest fleet of Alco FA-2's, and if I'm correct some were equipped with steam generators for passenger service. Jimmy
Yes Jimmy, your right! I totally forgot of the B&O's FA-2's..... One diesel model I don't have in my HO scale collection, whichj I have to get my hands on yet thinking of it. I totally forgot all about the FA-2's... As for steam generators for passenger service, I'm not sure if they had or didn't, but its very possible
Don't know as I have a favorite. This is probably the only B&O engine I ever took a photo of, so I guess I have to vote for it.
Funny how endearing the GP-30 "Sunburst" scheme is to me now. I was just a kid, but I remember how dissapointed I was to see them come out with this simplified scheme. Strange looking and sounding beasts too, because they were the first low nosed and turbocharged EMD units I had ever seen. They redeemed themselves admirably though. When they were brand new, a matched set(usually three) of them would roar down the B&OCT main past my house every evening with a cut of those neat private name reefers (Hormel, Swift, Wilson etc.) followed by a cut of loaded stock cars and a red or blue caboose hanging on for dear life! This was powerful stuff for a preteen kid who was used to seeing countless underpowered transfer jobs and caboose hops plod by. Jimmy
Don't have much B&O but here are some that you might enjoy from the B&O Museum before the roof caved in. I think this is B&O but could be C&O, please validate as I didn't make a note when I took this and can't read the tender to be sure. B&O No. 217 Davis "Camel" with history information
Darren, Nice shots! Its sad that the Davis Camel is gone, (or all but gone) from what had happen! Its also sad that the B&O HS was in order to getting a EM-1 to go with that C&O H-8 "Allegheny", But never, being they closed for like 2 weeks prior to getting the EM-1, 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" in the early 1960's. (Yes your right in the above post about the loco being B&O or C&O, its in fact a C&O H-8, 2-6-6-6, "Allegheny".
For B&O fans as well as railfans of the B&O Museum I have in my RailImages a album that contains photos taken at the"B&O Museum" in October 1999 which is before the snow storm. There maybe other photos of equipment badly damaged that I too wished I could have taken better photographs of.
Darren, Nice work! sadly what had appen to the museum from the snow storm, I haven't gotten to see the place once an now that I relocated I may never, I moved ever further north then I was! So.... but pictures of it all gives the impression of being there. So, THANKS again!
President Class Pacifics done up in Streamlining for service on the Cincinnatian. Simple & Elegant and effective. [ April 15, 2005, 02:06 PM: Message edited by: mmi16 ]
mmi16, Welcome and thanks for posting those pics. Those rounded tail observation cars are definately "modern" Harold
A unique decoration point about the Cincinnatian, while the normal B&O color scheme used gold as the striping and lettering color between the blue, gray and black....the Cincinatian used silver for the striping and lettering.
The rakish noses of the original series of EA passenger diesels have always set them apart form all the other diesels that followed.
I too love the Cincinattian pacifics as well as the EA and E6s. I prefer the look of the E units as delivered with the passenger pilots though. My favorite freight engines are the EM1 and GP 30. The first engine I ever remember seeing was a B&O GP30 when I was 5 or 6. I remember this huge, hulking, black (I thought) monster and fell in love! Funny, But I never saw one again until I was an adult. I saw an N scale arnold version at a train show and recognized it immediately. I now have 4 of them done up in B&O. RICK
