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briansilvermustang posted:

      

          great photo Lew !!   my favorite RR...  when growing up,  we used to take my

  grandma down to the train station to catch a train to Baltimore, where my Dad, grandma

  and grandpa are from...

My Grandparents' house was beside the Pittsburgh-Buffalo line (previously BR&P) and I watched a lot of Covered Wagons there working the Southbound grade up from the Allegheny River. Most freights had a pair of F7 As pushing the crummy hard. I can still hear the bellow of those 567s in notch 8.

Lew

geysergazer posted:

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A Fall Foliage Special ready to pull out of the old B&O station in Pittsburgh bound for Meyersdale, Pa. My Sis and her friend admiring #241. Lookit' the polished paint! Circa 1958.

Lew

And I just noticed this on the Train Room wall:

 

                          IMG_2814

So #241 was the lead unit Eastbound in the morning. Here we are in the afternoon Westbound down the the long grade towards Pittsburgh with #241 trailing. SOP for B&O excursions was an open gondola.

Lew

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