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2-6-0. Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-6-0 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels. This arrangement is commonly called a Mogul. [1]
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad ordered the first of these compact 2-6-6-2 articulated steam locomotives from Alco in 1911. It was a massive locomotive for the time, and it performed well enough for the C&O to order additional, but slightly modified, versions right through 1923.
02001571 [3] Added to NRHP. January 31, 2003. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway No. 1308 is an 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.
Factor of adh. Western Maryland Scenic Railroad 1309 (nicknamed Maryland Thunder) is a compound articulated class "H-6" "Mallet" type steam locomotive with a 2-6-6-2 (Whyte notation) wheel arrangement. It was the very last steam locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) in November 1949 and originally operated by the Chesapeake and ...
Factor of adh. 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. The locomotives were among the most powerful steam locomotives ever built and hauled fast, heavy freight trains for the railroad.
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
Class K: 2-8-2 and 2-8-4. C&O's "Big Mike" #2705, a 2-8-4 Class K-4 "Kanawha" built by Alco in 1943, at the B&O Railroad Museum in 2008. Class K was used for 2-8-2 Mikado and 2-8-4 Kanawha types. Chesapeake and Ohio class K ex- Hocking Valley Railway 2-8-2. Chesapeake and Ohio class K-1 2-8-2.
Chesapeake and Ohio 614 is a class "J-3-A" 4-8-4 "Greenbrier" (Northern) type steam locomotive built in June 1948 by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) as a member of the J-3-A class. As one of the last commercially built steam locomotives in the United States, the locomotive was built with the ...