Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The design of the M-1 was a collaboration between the C&O, the Baldwin Locomotive Works and Westinghouse. [4]: 202 The C&O possessed substantial coal-hauling revenue and was loath to abandon it as a fuel source. [5]: 109 Further, C&O's engineering staff expressed concern that oil reserves would be exhausted within 25-30 years.
Length including tenders was 161 ft 1-1/2 inches, probably the record for a steam locomotive; engine-only length was 111 ft 7-1/2 inches, perhaps the record for any single unit. [12] [13] The unit looked similar to the C&O turbines but differed mechanically; it was a C+C-C+C with a Babcock & Wilcox water-tube boiler with automatic controls. The ...
The F-19s, Nos. 490-494, were the final new 4-6-2s the C&O received (later 4-6-2s would be purchased second-hand from the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad (RF&P). No. 490 was the first locomotive of the class, and it was initially assigned to pull mainline trains on flat portions of the C&O system east of Charlottesville, Virginia. [1]
To pull the Chessie the C&O ordered three experimental steam turbine locomotives from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. As diesel locomotives became more prevalent following World War II, the C&O was one of several railroads who were reluctant to abandon coal as a fuel source, and they believed steam turbine technology was a possible alternative to ...
In 1944 Baldwin outshopped an S2 class 6-8-6 steam turbine locomotive for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Between 1947 and 1948 Baldwin built three coal-fired steam turbine-electric locomotives of a unique design, for passenger service on the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O), who numbered them 500 to 502 and classified them M-1.
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway No. 1308 is an preserved articulated 2-6-6-2 "Mallet" type steam locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1949. It was the next to the last Class 1 mainline locomotive built by Baldwin, closing out more than 100 years of production, a total of more than 70,000 locomotives.
F7A 94 built for the C&O; F7B 54 built for the C&O; FP7 16 built for the C&O; Road Switchers Branch line (BL) 4 Axle BL2 14 built for the C&O (first 6 ordered by the Pere Marquette Railroad prior to merger) General Purpose (GP) 4 Axle GP7 180 built for the C&O; GP9 363 Built for the C&O; GP30 48 Built for the C&O; GP35 41 Built for the C&O ...
In 1930, the C&O ordered the first of forty 2-10-4 "Texas"-types from Lima, which they classified as the T-1 class, and they shared identical design features with the Erie’s 2-8-4s. [ 1 ] The T-1s were equipped with a trailing truck booster that exerted 15,275 pounds-force (67.95 kN) of tractive effort.