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BO 4-6-0C #217 - Baltimore & Ohio |
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Built by the B&O Mount Clare Shops in 1873, this was a Camel style with the entire cab placed over the boiler. This is how the loco looked to audiences at the 1939 World's Fair. No. 217 bears the name of Ross Winans, a Baltimore inventor who patented railroad wheel bearings and experimented with early railroad equipment. Winans became the B&O's Assistant Engineer of Machinery at the Mount Clare Shops. The loco is now preserved at the B&O Museum. Specs - 50-inch drivers, 65 psi boiler pressure, combined with 19x22-inch cylinders, engine weight of 129,100 pounds, and produced 8,775 pounds of tractive force. From the collection of Harold K. Vollrath. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1939 Upload Date: 6/25/2018 6:02:47 PM |
| Location: |
New York, NY |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
BO 217(4-6-0) |
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| Title: |
BO 4-6-0 #217 |
| Description: |
This is one of the earliest "Mother Hubbard" or camelback locomotives built. Mt Claire Shops built this one in August of 1869. Jim Lockart took the color slide on his 2nd visit to the musuem. |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1997 Upload Date: 6/1/2022 10:29:35 AM |
| Location: |
Baltimore B&O Museum, MD |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Steam,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
BO 217(4-6-0) |
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