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[JoeKoh]

Hi
To answer your signature Defiance and Henry county Ohio are two good counties. The B&O came through in the 1870's.
stay safe
Joe
Deshler Days next week.[8D]

[JoeKoh]

Hi
To answer your signature Defiance and Henry county Ohio are two good counties. The B&O came through in the 1870's.
stay safe
Joe
Deshler Days next week.[8D]

[Anonymous]

Hi Joe. Just pulling your chain with that stuff. But it is true; the B&O doesn't connect with anything...it no longer exists. You can have "13 states" back...I'll change mine now. Don't get me wrong...I LIKED B&O. When I started there in '70, you could still see remnants of the class that they were. It's like walking into a room fifteen minutes after a pipe smoker left; he's gone, but you can still smell the aroma of his pipe.

[Anonymous]

Hi Joe. Just pulling your chain with that stuff. But it is true; the B&O doesn't connect with anything...it no longer exists. You can have "13 states" back...I'll change mine now. Don't get me wrong...I LIKED B&O. When I started there in '70, you could still see remnants of the class that they were. It's like walking into a room fifteen minutes after a pipe smoker left; he's gone, but you can still smell the aroma of his pipe.

[JoeKoh]

Like when the B&O had a double track to Chicago they tore it up to save money and then put it back in years later?
stay safe
joe

[JoeKoh]

Like when the B&O had a double track to Chicago they tore it up to save money and then put it back in years later?
stay safe
joe

[Anonymous]

By "remnants of the class that they were...", I mean brass B&O heralds still on some yard power; plated B&O heralds on most of the Budd cars; an original B&O paint scheme showing through the tattered C&O clone job; Camden Station [it DOES look better today, but no longer is a station...]; wagon-top cabooses; wagon-top boxcars in revenue service, and still looking good; the freight yards still in use from their last rebuilding [early 40's]; handsome B&O passenger equipment in revenue B&O service [some in the hideous C&O slop, but many still in classic B&O] ; B&O designed stations in revenue service; B&O designed block towers still serving their intended function; B&O Color Position Lights EVERYWHERE. I could go on , but you get the idea, Joe. About the only item left in use above is the B&O CPL signals, and CSX is working their way east replacing them with inferior [but cheaper] Seaboard style signals. You stay safe, too, Joe.

[Anonymous]

By "remnants of the class that they were...", I mean brass B&O heralds still on some yard power; plated B&O heralds on most of the Budd cars; an original B&O paint scheme showing through the tattered C&O clone job; Camden Station [it DOES look better today, but no longer is a station...]; wagon-top cabooses; wagon-top boxcars in revenue service, and still looking good; the freight yards still in use from their last rebuilding [early 40's]; handsome B&O passenger equipment in revenue B&O service [some in the hideous C&O slop, but many still in classic B&O] ; B&O designed stations in revenue service; B&O designed block towers still serving their intended function; B&O Color Position Lights EVERYWHERE. I could go on , but you get the idea, Joe. About the only item left in use above is the B&O CPL signals, and CSX is working their way east replacing them with inferior [but cheaper] Seaboard style signals. You stay safe, too, Joe.

[JoeKoh]

i'm sure i'll get some signal pictures in my trip to Deshler.From Perrys burg to Lima thats the only places where you might find them.
stay safe
joe

[JoeKoh]

i'm sure i'll get some signal pictures in my trip to Deshler.From Perrys burg to Lima thats the only places where you might find them.
stay safe
joe

[Anonymous]

We still have CPL's all through Maryland. There are several spots where the SBD lights have gone in; Viaduct Jct. in Cumberland comes to mind; like wise Bayview interlocking in Baltimore. All new installations are SBD's, but they haven't started removing intermediate CPL's as yet; not in Maryland anyway. We've heard locally that the Balto. area will have the last revenue CPL's before they are finally banished to the museums.

[Anonymous]

We still have CPL's all through Maryland. There are several spots where the SBD lights have gone in; Viaduct Jct. in Cumberland comes to mind; like wise Bayview interlocking in Baltimore. All new installations are SBD's, but they haven't started removing intermediate CPL's as yet; not in Maryland anyway. We've heard locally that the Balto. area will have the last revenue CPL's before they are finally banished to the museums.