My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

In an oft repeated scene eastbound coal descends Sand Patch Grade somewhere (I'm guessing) close to Fairhope. This was before the 40-2s became boringly ubiquitous. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from... (more)

Sitting in the sweltering heat of the eastern Old Dominion, this long unit seems to indicate the reduced status of this once bustling yard. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

One of the freshest Chessie paint jobs I've seen and a "basic" 40. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.

Chicago, 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Manicured ballast, tell-tale poles, and The Capitol Limited, at Chicago in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

One Night Only. On the evening of Friday, June 17, 2021 BO 51 (EA, EMC, 5/1937) was on display at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland along with AMTK 100 (P42DC, Midnight Blue) ... (more)

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad No. 4500 is a 2-8-2 light Mikado , built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1918. The USRA nationalised the nation's railroad system and these light Mikados were chos... (more)

B&O 6405 hands out with some EMD siblings at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum.

A Chessie System eastbound freight led by B&O 4140, an early GP40-2, built in October 1972, pauses at New Castle, PA behind a Safety Special led by C&O steam locomotive 614 (not shown). I visited ... (more)

Back in the early 1980s when I was at George Washington University, I discovered that on Sundays the parking lot for the GSA building on Virginia Avenue was left open and I could just park there a... (more)

On the Tracks. The EA for B&O, along with the E1 for Santa Fe and the E2 for UP, was part of EMC's first streamlined passenger diesels designed to operate as standalone units versus the pr... (more)

An eastbound CSX freight rolls through busy Dolton Junction at Dolton, Illinois, on March 19, 1988. The train is powered by a Baltimore & Ohio EMD GP40-2 that has recently renumbered into the CSX ... (more)

Rural Movements. On a Lerro Photography outing, the Potomac Eagle's B&O F7 moves through a farm on a very rainy afternoon.

Classic Lines. On a Lerro Photography outing, the Potomac Eagle's beautiful F7 poses beside a classic Buick Electra.