B&O Photos From Toledo

[J3a-614]

While looking up photos of the Union Station in Toledo, Ohio (a relatively modern station, opened about 1950, and still in use), I came across these pix from the late steam era, featuring the B&O:

http://alt.binaries.pictures.rail.usenetbinaries.com/mediaserver/groups/alt.binaries.pictures.rail/2011/12/23/h2/B%26O5243atButlerPA9-14-52GELloydScanColl.jpg.html

http://alt.binaries.pictures.rail.usenetbinaries.com/mediaserver/groups/alt.binaries.pictures.rail/2011/12/23/h2/B%26O5260atEastSalamancaNY9-11-49RobertCollinsScanColl.jpg.html

http://alt.binaries.pictures.rail.usenetbinaries.com/mediaserver/groups/alt.binaries.pictures.rail/2011/12/23/h2/B%26O5301atUnionStationToledoOH5-27-55HWPetersonScanColl.jpg.html

http://alt.binaries.pictures.rail.usenetbinaries.com/mediaserver/groups/alt.binaries.pictures.rail/2011/12/23/h2/B%26O5302atUnionStationToledoOH6-27-54SAGoodrickScanColl.jpg.html

http://alt.binaries.pictures.rail.usenetbinaries.com/mediaserver/groups/alt.binaries.pictures.rail/2011/12/23/h2/B%26O5303atBoundBrookNJ1-46HLeggetWmShoemaker%26ScanColl.jpg.html

Have fun, B&O and steam fans!

[jettrainfan]

Great finds! Love that 4-6-4 stream liner departing Toledo heading for Cincinnati! I've heard of B&O stream-liners, but have only seen a painting in a book i did for a school project, back in 2009, but never a true "Blue" picture! *sigh* I'm born in a generation where the last big names of class 1s merged to make today's class 1 railroads, Would've been wonderful to experience the B&O, they got some pretty good bridges down here in Cleveland. I Could only imagine a 4-6-0 hauling a local freight over it to do some switching. Oh well, i enjoy that there are pictures at least, and i can just sit back and day dream... no wait, that's what model railroading is for! 

[captain1313]

j3a...................great photos.  Thanks for sharing.

Kevin

[J3a-614]

For the Jet:  the Cincinnatian and other B&O trains in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyoOTgqM76Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbCFdocYkiA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttgguqpVzSg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI99Dvpxo2w&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwsEYgHX6Og&feature=related

Have fun!

[jonathan]

J3a,

Thanks for sharing the photos.  Can't get enough B&O treasure...

Regards,

Jonathan

[ebtnut]

Just for the record, the streamlined P-7 is a 4-6-2, not a 4-6-4.  The B&O did have a couple of essentially experimental Hudsons, but they were designed in the British style, not the Art Deco bullet style of the Cincinnattian locos. 

[J3a-614]

Well, found more "B&O treasure," this time in Maryland, on the Facebook page of the Baltimore Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, located via Railway Preservation News:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Baltimore-Chapter-National-Railway-Historical-Society/189855824370567

Their scanned photos aren't all B&O, but a lot are:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.301993056490176.72707.189855824370567&type=3

How I wish this one was still around:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=370446026311545&set=a.301993056490176.72707.189855824370567&type=3&theater

Here's one that's a special for Jonathan:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=366676616688486&set=a.301993056490176.72707.189855824370567&type=3&theater

Enjoy!

[jonathan]

Man, you're gonna make me swoooooon......

JV