I'm planning a proto-lance, transition era, layout based on the B&O Ohio Division between Chillicothe, OH and Parkersburg, WV.
I like the rural nature and scenic possibilities of this stretch. However, information regarding customers/industries in some of the small towns is hard to come by.
Does anyone have any insight to this area? Or "offline" resources?
Thanks!
I know there are a bazillion books on B&O and there are probably reviews, somewhere. Since I'm not up to snuff on the reviews, when I see these books at trains shows or Ebay, I don't know if they are good books or decent prices.
The B&O Historical Society might be a good place to start
https://www.borhs.org/
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
This may help.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Baltimore_and_Ohio_RR_in_1961.jpg/1200px-Baltimore_and_Ohio_RR_in_1961.jpg
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
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There is an active and friendly B&O Yahoo group.
If you went west instead of east, you would be able to model Greenfield, OH which for a small town had a myriad of industries like the Patterson Motor Car Co., numerous furniture factories, rock quarry, a huge factory that made padded horse collars (and life vests during WWII. It's all gone now but very viable in the steam era. Also had an interchange with the DT&I. The Historical Society has a layout of the city built by Tom Adams who has researched and included everything that was in the city railroadwise. I have a number of pictures of that layout when I visited Greenfield a year ago.
B&O through downtown Greenfield.
The horse collar factory.
Rick Jesionowski
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See if you can find copies of B&O Form 6. Reprints were available from the B&O Museum several years ago. These list all industries and important points on the various lines of the B&O.
Tom
dti406 this is great stuff and right up my alley as to what I hope to model in my next layout. I am aiming to model Greenfield OH to Midland City, albeit in a compressed form.
ACY Tom See if you can find copies of B&O Form 6. Reprints were available from the B&O Museum several years ago. These list all industries and important points on the various lines of the B&O. Tom
Thanks! I will look into B&O Form 6. It sounds like a great resource!
dti406 If you went west instead of east, you would be able to model Greenfield, OH which for a small town had a myriad of industries like the Patterson Motor Car Co., numerous furniture factories, rock quarry, a huge factory that made padded horse collars (and life vests during WWII. It's all gone now but very viable in the steam era. Also had an interchange with the DT&I. The Historical Society has a layout of the city built by Tom Adams who has researched and included everything that was in the city railroadwise. I have a number of pictures of that layout when I visited Greenfield a year ago. B&O through downtown Greenfield. The horse collar factory. Rick Jesionowski
Thanks for the info on Greenfield. I may extend west to include it.
Overmod There is an active and friendly B&O Yahoo group.
I didn't know that Yahoo groups were still a thing. I'll check it out, thanks!
There is at least one Ohio steam in the 1950s train video from GSVP.