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Chesapeake & Ohio Diesel Locomotives by Carl W Shaver and David L Gilliland HC
Chesapeake & Ohio Diesel Locomotives by Carl W Shaver and David L Gilliland
Hard Cover
Copyright 1994
228 pages
CONTENTS
FOREWORD by Carl W. Shaveriv
SUMMARY OF CHESSIE SYSTEM DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES, APRIL 1, 19861 (The last available surnmary before merger into CSX Transportation, Inc.)
OVERVIEW OF CSX TRANSPORTATION FROM 1980 to1994 by David L. Gilliland 3
CSXTs Motive Power consolidation5
The image of CSXT from 1985 to 1994 9
UPDATES TO NOTES ON VARIOUS C&O LOCOMOTIVE MODELS by David L Gilliland 13 (dispositions and renumbering occurring since publication of the original C&O Diesel Review, for models in which most changes have taken place)
CSX TRANSPORTATION MOTIVE POWER SUMMARY, JULY 199448
ALL-TIME C&O DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE ROSTER compiled by Carl W. Shaver51
Notes for locomotives added since publication of the original C&O Diesel Review-by David L Gilliland56
Roster notes (including illustrations)66
Table of principal dimensions214
"Also-Rans"216
Addenda (updating the original diesel roster through November 1981)220
CONSOLIDATED SUMMARY OF CHESSIE SYSTEM MOTIVE POWER-JULY 1, 1981 221
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS227
In the twelve years since the publication of the Chesapeake and Ohio Diesel Review, much has happened. For the majority of that time, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway has not existed, with the railroad we knew becoming a fairly small portion of what is now CSX Transportation, Inc.
In one sense, our Diesel Review was published at the end of the C&O era. Its news section had heralded the arrival of CSX as the holding company. During the next five years, in spite of the fact that the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway was still in existence, CSX was giving the orders-the GP15Ts and SD5Os that would bear the "C&O" designation and Chessie colors were bought by CSX (the only additions to the locomotive roster that might have been purely C&O in origin were the eleven yard slugs converted from older C&O locomotives). For the next few years we watched as CSX first ordered new locomotives for its subsidiary railroads, then shifted locomotives around-in practice, if not actually on the books-among its subsidiaries, adopted a common paint scheme and numbering system, and finally gave the entire operation its own name.
The assortment of locomotives our Diesel Review detailed also underwent some changes. When the book was published, over one third of the C&O roster was made up of GP7s and GP9s-the locomotives that went everywhere and did everything. Most of them were spending a lot of time in storage then, and we knew they were going. But it still took most of us by surprise when they were suddenly gone by 1988, taking most of the remaining switchers with them. All that's left is "second -generation" C&O diesel power-the oldest units on the roster are a number of GP3Os that were in the process of being rebuilt by the C&O when the Diesel Review was published. In 1982 the C&O's GP35 fleet was still intact-now they're totally gone, with the exception of some shells that remain as CSXT road slugs. Other locomotive models with intact fleets twelve years ago--GP38s, GP39s, and GP40s-are among the units that are now turning up as rebuilt units on other large railroads' rosters, as power for the many shortline railroads that have appeared over this time, or in scrap yards. The rest of the C&O's "U-Boat" fleet has followed the U25Bs into oblivion, with only "Dash 7" units remaining to remind people that someone besides EMD built locomotives for the C&O (and back then, who would have believed that General Electric would wind up dominating CSX's orders the way it has?).
During the past twelve years, we're happy to say, our Chesapeake and Ohio Diesel Review has been both popular and acclaimed...and becoming more out of date at the same time as it has become more widely in demand. Being the volunteer-operated non-profit organization that we are, the C&O Historical Society has had to endure shortages of both volunteer time and money--and neither was in abundant supply when the time came to respond to the demand for a C&O diesel book to be made available again. The solution that used the smallest amount of both was to reproduce the old Diesel Review, popular book that it was, replacing the outdated news section and features with new material that would cover all of the newer C&O locomotives, and show how the C&O's diesels fit into CSX's roster.
We hope that our readers will appreciate the constraints under which this volume was produced. Portions of the C&O's diesel experiences have still been left untold: time and space in the new volume did not permit the inclusion of everything we had learned about some of the units previously removed from the C&O's roster. Perhaps the C&OHS will be able to remedy this in the future. In the meantime, we hope and trust that what is presented here is an useful and enjoyable tribute to the locomotives of one of the country's largest and most popular railroads.
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