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Posted by Beach Bill on Monday, March 21, 2011 5:13 AM

That steamlocomotives.com site is a very good initial reference.  Let's see if I can make the link operational:

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/lists/

That site shows 17 B&0 locomotives extant, and 23 C&O survivors.

Bill

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Posted by K4sPRR on Saturday, March 19, 2011 9:03 AM

If you go to the site steamlocomotive.com/lists you can search by state, builder, etc for surviving locomotives.  They have a comprehensive list.

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Posted by Firelock76 on Saturday, March 19, 2011 8:44 AM

If memory serves, at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad museum in Baltimore, Md., there are several big steamers on display, although not active.  For the C&O, there's a streamlined Hudson and a 2-6-6-6 Allegheny,  for the B&O there's a 4-6-2  President class Pacific, I believe it's the "President Washington", also some 2-8-0's and 2-8-2's.  There may be others but it's been a few years since I've been there.  C&O 4-8-4  614 is currently on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, VA.  There's a 2-8-4  Kanawha on display behind the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond.  There may be others around that other posters may know of.  I checked the website of the B&O Museum to see if they had an inventory of the steam locomotives on hand but couldn't find one.  Maybe it is on the site but I just couldn't figure it out!

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B&O and C&O steamers
Posted by trainbuff3 on Friday, March 18, 2011 5:33 PM

What big B&O and C&O big steamers are still around? 2-8-0s, 2-6-2s, 2-8-4s?

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