Instead of the H-8 Allegheny how about Chesapeake & Ohio 4-6-4 #490 for a Good Will Ambassador for CSX along with #614. Any Ideas or Thoughts.
Keith Bunner
Fine locomotive. But current CSX management wants zero to do with steam.
The #490 would be a great showpiece for CSX. I've seen it at the B&O Museum in Baltimore, and it looks like it's in pretty good shape. A restoration shouldn't be too difficult. But as Mr. Dave says, CSX just isn't interested in that sort of thing. Hey, it's their 'road.
Actually, CSX spun off the B&O Museum as an independent non profit several years ago.
Lonny523 Actually, CSX spun off the B&O Museum as an independent non profit several years ago.
True, but CSX could rent the thing from the museum if they wanted to. When Lady Firestorms engine, the Mighty 611 was running on Norfolk-Southern the NS was actually leasing it from the Virginia Museum of Transportation.
So, it's been done before.
Maybe so, but CSX hasn't got the slightest interest in running steam. Their sense of history end when they absorbed Seaboard and became CSX. They won't even lease track to the museum so it can run a train to the Ellicot City branch of the museum. There biggest and only concern is the bottom line and the stockholders
Lonny523 Maybe so, but CSX hasn't got the slightest interest in running steam. Their sense of history end when they absorbed Seaboard and became CSX. They won't even lease track to the museum so it can run a train to the Ellicot City branch of the museum. There biggest and only concern is the bottom line and the stockholders
The only track between the Museum and Ellicott City is the Old Main Line - it is used in daily operations by 3 to 4 coal trains, 3 to 4 empty trains and several manifest trains in both directions and is not available to be leased from a operating perspective.
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