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B&O Steam Finale Volume 2 By Deane Mellander and Bob Kaplan w/ dust jacket
B&O Steam Finale Volume 2 By Deane Mellander and Bob Kaplan
Hardbound with dustjacket
146 pages
Copyright 1988
CONTENTS
Foreword
Preface
I The Way It Was
II Sandpatch
III The Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh
IV Buckeye Rails
William P Price
1953 Diesel Roster
B&O Steam Finale
The Potomac Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society is proud to bring you the final chapter in 125 years of steam locomotion on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Although the B&O was one of the early pioneers in introducing diesels to main line railroading, the road continued to stable and dispatch steam well into the 1950's. Our two-volume set chronicles those final years, as the diesel onslaught pushed the steam engines into oblivion. The first volume began in New Jersey and worked west along the Cumberland Division to Grafton, along the Monongah Division deep into West virginia coal country, and took a look at the Wheeling Division along the Ohio River. This current volume covers the Pittsburgh Division over Sand Patch, some of the old BR&P lines, and winds up in central Ohio during the B&O's final season in steam.
Introduction
This second and concluding volume of B&O Steam Finale continues Bill Price's personal view of the end of the Baltimore and Ohio's steam era. Volume I covered the lines east of Cumberland, the West End, and some of the lesser-remarked lines in West Virginia. We now will move west from Cumberland for a look at the Pittsburgh Division, the old Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh, and the Ohio flatlands, where B&O steam made its last stand.
Sand Patch was, and is, the "Big Hill" on the Pittsburgh Division. The tower operator at Hyndman, Pennsylvania was almost always kept busy working the helpers in and out of the small engine terminal. Braces of class S-1 2-10-2's, sometimes two each fore and aft, were required to overcome the near two percent grade. Once over the top, the rails descended water level routes all the way to Pittsburgh.
Join Bill Price as he catches the glory of Sand Patch with braces of Big Sixes. EM-1's running out their last miles far from their first home on the West End. We'll see the locomotives and trains that caught the fancy of railfan and casual bystander alike. We'll also see the all encompassing Diesels shoulder their way onto the railroad scene. And we'll watch as the last holdouts of the steam era strut the stage one last time. Chief among the survivors were the T-3's. The lanky Mountains, the last major class to emerge from the historic Mt. Clare Shops, were a credit to the resourceful-Iness of the engineering and shop forces. A pair of them could couple up to a hundred high cars and before you knew it they were sailing effortlessly across the prairies at mile-a-minute speeds. This and other sights await. Climb Aboard!
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