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[quote user="steemtrayn"] Clinchfield No. 1, a small 4-6-0 had a hostler control from a B unit installed to control the diesels that were required to pull it's excursion trains. It is now at the Baltimore Railroad Museum, and still has the control in the cab. <div style="clear:both;"> </div> [/quote] Here is a link to the B&O RR museum's page on the subject: <a href="http://www.borail.org/clinchfield.aspx">http://www.borail.org/clinchfield.aspx</a> The article is poorly edited and jumps around alot, but the last paragraph contains the information that you want.  The control box was added sometime between November 1968 - June 1979.  The locomotive ended up with a cracked frame (June 1979).  Do not know if that was related, or just a coincidence.  Given the age of the locomotive (built 1882), it was probably just cyclic fatigue. If you click through the museums flickr page (at the bottom of the link I posted) you will find a photo of the cab with the control box.  I would be interested to see whats in that box, to see if it could have been made with technology available in the 1940s-50s.
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