do you have B&O.....c&o?

briansilvermustang posted:

Brian,

On the one hand it is sad to see it not in it's original glory.  On the other hand, it is good to see it sitting there and not scrapped.

          it looks to be in someone's back yard.....like to have it in my back yard...

                               Tailend Tuesday.....

Latest acquisitions...

What a wonderful trip down memory lane, people! Awesome! Just awesome! Growing up in Cincinnati, if I had been extra good all year, my father would drive me down to the Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company where we would watch the B&O layout in the lobby for an hour or so during the Christmas season. Living in Sharonville, and with my Grandmother in Oakley, and other relatives near Corbin, Kentucky, I was treated constantly to B&O, C&O, Southern, L&N, PRR, and NYC. I even took a few train rides out of Union Station. Great memories all. Wish sometimes I modeled B&O, but now I live in the wild west where DRGW used to be king, the UP triple track main rules, and black goal flows from the Powder River. Still... Keep those memories coming! Great work!

Another load on its way to the team track...

Joe, John, and Mark,

Those are all really nice!!  Thank you for sharing!

Thanks to fellow forum member Brad, have my MTH 20-6665 two car add-on set to the set posted above.

The important car here is the "Pittsburgh" diner.  This is in fact one of the two diners used in "The Columbian" consist.  The sleeper "East Akron" is prototypical but for "The Capitol Limited" consist.

It is unfortunate that MTH ( Mike Wolf) in their infinite wisdom never made streamline combine cars.  In B7O's case these were club cars, Coffee Shoppe-Lounge cars.

So now have a pretty prototypical rendition of "The Columbian" which I got to ride in 56 0r 57.  This was a year or so before it was combined with "The Ambassador" and "The Capitol Limited."

                                             a  very nice looking train !!

briansilvermustang posted:

 

Brian, definitely "The Columbian" consist!  There were two sets of this consist.  Thanks for posting.

And here are K-Line's 15 inch Pittsburgh diner and Washington observation from the Columbian set. Lew Schneider

PRRronbh posted:

briansilvermustang posted:

 

Brian, definitely "The Columbian" consist!  There were two sets of this consist.  Thanks for posting.

I knew I could count on Brian to find the correct photograph!!

M-1 #500.

And with its cousins.

I think, by many standards, that was a strange, unique behemoth, huh.

Power Plants on wheels!

My B&O C&O Coal Train video here - https://youtu.be/y6_DN6MNxho

Any one know how much horsepower that M-1 put out?

Billy  C

Trainchief posted:

Any one know how much horsepower that M-1 put out?

Billy  C

I believe it was 5050 at the drawbar.

M-1 number 501 pulling the George Washington:

The M-1's never pulled the Budd lightweights cars built for The Chessie in revenue service. After The Chessie was cancelled the M-1's pulled standard heavyweight cars for a few years before the big engines were taken out of service.

Ken

kanawha posted:

 

The M-1's never pulled the Budd lightweights cars built for The Chessie in revenue service. After The Chessie was cancelled the M-1's pulled standard heavyweight cars for a few years before the big engines were taken out of service.

Ken

 

But two of the M-1's with consist of the new "Cheesie" passenger cars did tour the C&O System.

Ron

                                    B&O's Columbian crossing the viaduct into Relay, 1949    

My K-Line C&O extended vision caboose.

briansilvermustang posted:

Brian, love the photos of The Columbian.

And the "Mahoning" is name for the county where my hometown is ( and the river that the steel mills used.

Ron

Yes, I picked up on Mahoning right away!  Very neat!

Yes, I have C&O/B&O ... 

Love these Williams F3 AAs. Great looking and will pull anything you throw at them.

                                            pulling in for a station stop....

Chesapeake & Ohio #2744 2-8-4 Berkshire (MTH 30-1128-1) PS2 upgrade from PS1,
stretching out on the Rappahannock Model Railroaders Club layout earlier this week.