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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.
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 ...
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 2755 is a preserved class "K-4" 2-8-4 "Kanawha" "(Berkshire type steam locomotive built in 1947 by the Lima Locomotive Works for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) It is the 56th of ninety built by ALCO (which built seventy) and Lima (which built the remaining twenty, including 2755) between 1943 and 1947.
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]
The preserved C&O class L 4-6-4 locomotive No. 490 shows the streamlining that was applied to it and similar locomotives in the 1940s The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's Pere Marquette near Gary, IN on November 26, 1965 Chesapeake and Ohio 2755, a 2-8-4 Class K-4 "Kanawha" built by American Locomotive Company in 1947, at Chief Logan State Park
The original C&O 611 remained out of service. After just one year of revenue freight service, No. 614 was retired again and it was placed in storage with a group of other C&O steam locomotives in the form of a ‘scrap line’ in front of the C&O diesel shops in Russell, Kentucky where it remained for almost two decades.
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.