Number 90 posted:and a guy from the Pennsy named Crosby (I can't recall his first name).
John Crosby.
Years ago I recall crossing the B&O heading north on Harford Road in Baltimore with my grandmother and we stopped where the road crossed the tracks and watched a B&O freight headed south. It was the very first time I had seen diesels pulling a B&O freight. It was an ALCo A-B-A. The B&O generally had Q-4 mikados pulling their freights.
We went down to Pennsylvania Station in Baltimore sometime in 1952 when a fellow from our street was heading to Rantoul (sp?) IL for basic training. His train was preparing to head up the Northern Central to Harrisburg and was pulled by a K4s.
I started the first grade in 1949 and our school bus went over the Pennsylvania's tracks of the Northern Central at Meadowbrook north of Baltimore. One morning in about 1950-51 I saw a T1 heading in to Baltimore on a passenger train. Many folks have told me it wasn't a T1. I guess then that it must have been a K6 which the PRR had none of.
While the turntable at Orangeville (Baltimore) couldn't have handled the T1 the wye near there could. Plus, according to a PRRT&HS article many years ago the T1's were tested from Wilmington to Baltimore and were turned at Orangeville to head north.
