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Western Maryland Scenic Railroad 1309 (officially nicknamed Maryland Thunder [2]) is a compound articulated H-6 class 2-6-6-2 "Mallet" steam locomotive.It was the very last steam locomotive for domestic service built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1949 and originally operated by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway where it pulled coal trains until its retirement in 1956.
For passenger loco's, railroads prefered deeper-pitched whistles, usually a long-bell 6-chime steptop, or long-bell "steamboat" 3-chime. For freight, short-bell 5-chime steptops were popular. The great majority of American locomotive whistles were 6-1/2" in diameter, large and heavy, weighing up to 90lbs!!
At the end of 1970, the B&O operated of 4,535 miles of mainline track, not including the Staten Island Rapid Transit (SIRT) or the Reading Railroad and its subsidiaries. [3] The B&O’s long-distance passenger trains were discontinued in 1971 when the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) took over intercity passenger service ...
A drawing design of the N&W class J locomotive. After the outbreak of World War II, the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) mechanical engineering team developed a new locomotive—the streamlined class J 4-8-4 Northern—to handle rising mainline passenger traffic over the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially on steep grades in Virginia and West Virginia.
William Mason is a 4-4-0 steam locomotive currently on display at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.It was built for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, carrying that railroad's number 25.
Image Locomotive no. Class Type Built Retired City Location Extra information 1 - William Crooks: 1: 4-4-0: 1861: 9/1897: Duluth, Minnesota: Lake Superior Railroad Museum: In June 1962, the Great Northern transferred ownership to the Minnesota Historical Society Was at Saint Paul Union Depot from June 1954 to 1975 1147: F-8: 2-8-0: 8/1902: 6 ...
The Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8 was a class of 60 simple articulated 2-6-6-6 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio between 1941 and 1948, operating until the mid 1950s.
Sierra No. 3, often called the "Movie Star locomotive", is a 19th-century 4-6-0 "Ten Wheeler" type steam locomotive owned by the State of California and preserved and operated by the Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown, California.