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Owner: Chesapeake & Ohio
Model:BLW 2-6-6-2Built As:CO 1304 (2-6-6-2)
Serial Number:74273Order No:
Frame Number:22&35X32 cylinders 56" drivBuilt:9/1949
Notes:09/1949, H-6 class, scrapped in 1961
Other locos with this serial:  CO 1304(2-6-6-2)
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CO 2-6-6-2 #1304 - Chesapeake & Ohio
Title:  CO 2-6-6-2 #1304 - Chesapeake & Ohio
Description:  Here is another view of the builder's photo albeit a darker and later reprint of the photo but showing the tender as well as the locomotive. P.C. Studios photo credit on the back of the photo.
Photo Date:  6/1/1949  Upload Date: 5/1/2016 8:39:00 AM
Location:  Eddystone, PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  CO 1304(2-6-6-2)
Views:  618   Comments: 0
CO 2-6-6-2 #1304
Title:  CO 2-6-6-2 #1304
Description:  This appears to be another Baldwin builder's photo of the Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 #1304 just outside the Eddystone plant. The Chessie went to Baldwin in 1949 to buy the last ten steam locomotives the Eddystone plant would erect for any US railroad. Fifteen more planned for construction were postponed, then cancelled because of a coal strike during critical months.
Photo Date:  6/1/1949  Upload Date: 6/3/2020 10:34:33 AM
Location:  Eddystone, PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  CO 1304(2-6-6-2)
Views:  281   Comments: 2
CO 2-6-6-2 #1304 - Chesapeake & Ohio
Title:  CO 2-6-6-2 #1304 - Chesapeake & Ohio
Description:  This appears to be an builder's photo of the Baldwin built 2-6-6-2 Mallet. According to www.steamlocomotive.com "The Chessie went to Baldwin in 1949 to buy the last ten steam locomotives the Eddystone plant would erect for any US railroad. Fifteen more planned for construction were postponed, then cancelled because of a coal strike during critical months. Don Black notes too that the traditional circular Baldwin builder's plate was replaced by a pyramidal form." Specs - class H-6, 56" drivers, 210 psi boiler pressure, 22x32" high pressure cylinders, 35x32" (2) low pressure cylinders, engine weight of 434,900 lb, tractive effort of 70,773 lb.
Photo Date:  6/1/1949  Upload Date: 5/1/2016 8:08:43 AM
Location:  Eddystone, PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  CO 1304(2-6-6-2)
Views:  644   Comments: 0


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