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0-8-0 Muddigger

  • Does anyone have any information on the B&O 0-8-0 Muddigger?  Anything helps.
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  •  vsmith wrote:
    I'm 90% sure theirs a surviving Muddigger at the B&O Museum outside Boston.  I've checked thier website  http://www.borail.org/  but its infuriatingly lacking in any real information but I remember someone posting pics from a visit and their being a restored late Muddigger complete with the huge cab over the boiler and the open firemens position.
     
    I think you mean Baltimore, where there is a genuine Muddigger at the B&O Museum, It has an appearance that "only its mother could love". But, one can spend a fair amount of time looking at this beast and wonder just how it looked running under steam! It was, to say the least, different. A Boston & Albany  predecessor had some of these for the grades west of Worcester, MA. My totally disorganized library has "Central's Early Power", by Alvin F. Staufer has pictures of them. His B&O book, with Lawrence F. Sagle has excellent coverage of their muddiggers. I gotta figure out how to avoid having to stack and re-stack books to find what I want to find. BUT! It beats working! Honest.Wink [;)] 
  • I'm 90% sure theirs a surviving Muddigger at the B&O Museum outside Boston.  I've checked thier website  http://www.borail.org/  but its infuriatingly lacking in any real information but I remember someone posting pics from a visit and their being a restored late Muddigger complete with the huge cab over the boiler and the open firemens position.
     

       Have fun with your trains