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Chesapeake Beach Railway #10 |
| Description: |
Built by the Burnham, Williams & Company subsidiary of the Baldwin Locomotive Works in April of 1901 with construction number #18879, #10 was constructed as part of an order of sixteen new 2-8-0 Consolidations from the Burnham, Williams & Company built between 1901 and 1903 for the Western Maryland Railroad. Classified as an H-4 by the Western Maryland, the locomotive was numbered #101 and was the class leader of the bunch. Due to the Western Maryland's system wide renumbering program in 1906, #101 was renumbered #401 along with all it's sister locomotives following suit. The locomotive worked on the Western Maryland Railway out of the company's Knobmont Yard in Maryland Junction, West Virginia. The locomotive served the Western Maryland faithfully until October of 1930 when the engine was sold to the Chesapeake Beach Railway along with sister engine #409. When delivered to the Chesapeake Beach, the engine was repainted and renumbered #10 along with sister #409 which became #9. The two locomotives main purpose for being purchased by the railroad was to haul materials for the construction of public roads throughout Charles County including Chesapeake Beach. This being said, this locomotive along with #9 indirectly caused the financial ruin of the line by creating a gateway for the company's biggest competitor; the personal automobile. With the highways built and the railroad in financial ruin, old #10 was supposed to be returned to the Western Maryland Railway like sister engine #9. This never happened and #10 met it's end in August of 1936 after the bankruptcy and abandonment of the line in 1935. This photograph shows locomotive #10 and presumably Baldwin 4-6-0 #7 parked in the deadline at the Seat Pleasant, Maryland, Shops in the mid 1930's. Date is an estimate. Photographer unknown. |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1934 Upload Date: 4/9/2020 2:17:54 AM |
| Location: |
Seat Pleasant, MD |
| Author: |
Unknown |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Steam,Track |
| Locomotives: |
CB 10(2-8-0) CB 7(4-6-0) |
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| Title: |
Danville & Western Railway #21 |
| Description: |
Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in October of 1905 with construction number #26530, #21, like sister #20, spent it's whole life working on the Danville & Western Railway's main line from Stokesland, Virginia, to Staurt, Virginia, for over forty years until the eventual dieselisation of the D&W and absorption into the Southern Railway. After the Southern Railway financed American Locomotive Company RS-2s were introduced on the road in the late 1940's, the remaining few steam locomotives left on the roster were probably transferred over to the Carolina & North-Western Railway which was also a Southern Railway subsidiary. Photographs exist of this locomotive working on the Carolina & North-Western's lines as late as 1951. This photograph was probably taken in the Southern Railway's Dundee Shops in Northern Danville, Virginia. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/1940 Upload Date: 4/12/2020 11:23:43 PM |
| Location: |
Danville, VA |
| Author: |
Bruce D. Fales |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Steam,Track |
| Locomotives: |
DW 21(2-8-0) |
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| Title: |
Virginia Central Railway #347 |
| Description: |
Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in July of 1892 for the West Virginia Central & Pittsburg Railroad as their number #28, The locomotive was transferred over to the Western Maryland Railroad in 1906 being renumbered #347 and classified as an H3-c Consolidation. In 1929, the locomotive was sold to the Virginia Central Railway which kept the WM number #347. The locomotive was sidelined in 1938 and subsequently scrapped later that year due to the removal of 37 miles of track from a total of 38 miles ranging from Orange, Virginia, to West Fredericksburg, Virginia, which caused the locomotive to be surplus power to other, more powerful locomotives on the roster such as Ex: C&O 2-8-0 #901. This photograph shows #347 in the Fredericksburg, Virginia, yards shortly before the mainline was cut back to 1 mile and the engine was retired and scrapped. Month and year are correct. Exact day is an estimate. |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1938 Upload Date: 5/5/2020 11:06:55 AM |
| Location: |
Fredericksburg, VA |
| Author: |
Harold K. Vollrath |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Steam,Track |
| Locomotives: |
VC 347(2-8-0) |
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415 Comments: 0 |
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