do you have B&O.....c&o?

Have this to keep.

OH forgot, also a keeper.  Set of MTH E6's and set of five streamline passenger cars.  Set includes a dome car like I rode (at night) round trip from home town "Murder Town USA" to Chicago many decades ago! 

This to sell.

Also have as OP the doodlebug set probably to sell.

Sure I got B&O...what's it to ya

Yes.

Rusty

Pair of Lionel B&O GP30s and a blue I-12 caboose.

This ABA set and 15 freight cars.

Yep, I have some B&O.  Lionel post-war RDCs and Williams F3s with 15 inch aluminum passenger cars.

Great Grandpa had one job.....on the B&O....started in early teens.....retired from them. 

His last loco....hard to see....

Contrary to an earlier statement, I have a few B&O items that fell victim to my failing grey matter.  Some of the the pics posted here jogged the memory, such as the Budd RDC's ( 2 pairs ) and an AA set of F units, all from the MPC era.  There's also a 6 car set of William's aluminum streamliners that remain sealed in their boxes.

The latest addition is a 2R brass wagontop cabin from Ajin.  It immediately got a coat of red, glazing and lighting but really needs a good set of decals to finish her off.

as found, and.....

Bruce

Yup, a few... Had more, but the grand sone likes the AFT, so some sacrifices had to be made. 

Two Locos in shop right now, F3 AA from ABA set, a mikado, 

six passanger sets and these below.

in the neighborhood of 100 or so pieces of freight rolling stock.

Lionel milk car on order.  Patiently waiting ........I'm a fan.

I have a set of FT's one with dual motors, Which I added a F-3 B-unit with dual motors ( both units have TMCC ) I have a A-B-A set with one A powered with dual motors non-tmcc. I also have a Double A set from Williams. The first set has MTH 17" passenger cars with a add on Dinner & sleeper se by MTH which is 18". The second set has Williams 16" passenger cars ( 6 ) and williams set is the freight set they put out. I need to get pics of all these I do have pics of the first set though ( just the engines. ) 

Not the greatest picture but anyway here it is. 

Picked up these Williams F3s a few months back. Look great and pretty much bullet proof.

Lionel 2368's on a friend's layout.

Here are some of my b&o

really like 7812, nice engine, on my wish list.....

briansilvermustang posted:

really like 7812, nice engine, on my wish list.....

I had both of them but sold one I have that one and the caboose

Here are some B&O repaints...

I repainted and decaled these MTH wagon tops long before Weaver produced their models...

Mark,

Your B&O reprints lookgreat!

Which begs the question, has anyone produced the wagontop covered hoppers?  Ever since the IC purchase, I've kept my eye open for other offerings in wagontop design cars.

Bruce

Yes, and I like it as much as I like my PRR.

FrankM.

I have been loosly following B&O for many years in 2 rail.  Not an expert on all of their equipment bt have friends that are.

brwebster posted:

Which begs the question, has anyone produced the wagontop covered hoppers?  Ever since the IC purchase, I've kept my eye open for other offerings in wagontop design cars.

Bruce

Yes, but only in lifetime Brass.

Lionel Columbian set that is pulled with simply reliable Williams E7 units.

Custom Trains Madison Capitol Limited pulled with a Williams scale hudson.

Williams FA units

Various freight cars and a K-line bay window caboose.

This is not a locomotive but this is my complete B&O signal system ready for my layout 

This was and is my first MTH engine. I currently have the new Premier Line B&O USRA Heavy Pacifics both the blue one, and the green President Washington on pre-order along with the matching passenger coaches of course. 

There's a RailKing B&O SD9 in the collection but I do not have photos or videos of it right now.

TrainWizard5972 posted:

 

..., and the green President Washington ...

the best B&O locomotive in the best livery ! ...

...in any scale.

cheers...gary

Here is some B&O that run on the Free State Junction Railway. ( Click on images at bottom of post  for captions.)

I have a few I picked up over the last 60+ years.

Trumptrain,

Awesome trains, awesome photos!  You've chosen great angles to show off your layout.  That actual bridge is amazing.  I didn't catch the caption.  Where is it?

tomlinson Run Railroad

My first MTH standard gauge train set with the two add on cars. Actually I have an extra add on car( not shown) that I might make into a parlor car. Would like to maybe add a B&O REA boxcar to the consist.

TomlinsonRunRR posted:

Trumptrain,

Awesome trains, awesome photos!  You've chosen great angles to show off your layout.  That actual bridge is amazing.  I didn't catch the caption.  Where is it?

tomlinson Run Railroad

Thanks so much TomlinsonRunRR!!!  I appreciate your kind words!  

The real bridge, designed my Wendall Bollman,  is located in Savage, Maryland and is the last surviving bridge of this kind.  A National Civil Engineering Landmark, this bridge is on the National Park Services list of National Historic Sites.   It takes a spur over the Little Patuxent River from the B&O Patuxent Branch line.  This bridge design was the first railroad iron truss bridge in the US.  The B&O had about 100 of this type of bridge throughout it's system.  Check out photos of Harpers Ferry W VA  during the Civil War and you will see Bollman Iron truss bridges taking the B&O mainline across the Potomac River from Maryland into WVA. The spur was to service the Savage Manufacturing Co. which was a textile mill that produced canvas for sails and tents primarily.  You may also read more about this bridge on Wikipedia.  I live about a quarter mile from this bridge, so naturally I have a model of one on my layout.  

The Patuxent Branch Line ( which was about 4.5 miles long ) comes off the Washington Branch main ( now called the Camden Line under CSX ownership ).  The PB ran somewhat northwest along side the Little Patuxent River into what is now Columbia, Maryland to service a granite quarry.    The tracks of the Patuxent Branch are long gone but there is a nice rails to trail which traverses through park lands.  Some remnants of the old B&O line are still intact such as the Bollman bridge and a Pratt suspension bridge near the end of the line.  An old trestle ( now rotting away ) exits where the PB connected to the Washington Branch. 

B&O Atlas O Gauge #9416 p/n 6114-1 SW900 SW 900

Chessie!

Yep. got some B&O.

When I was born, my family lived a literal "stones throw" from a busy B&O line in Cincinnati and a short walk to the B&O main in Winton Place. As a very small boy, my dad would frequently take me trackside to the busy Winton Place station to watch the passing B&O, NYC, PRR and N&W action. Though I have no specific memories of equipment or road names, I do recall steam locomotives and the passage of passenger trains. Oh, that photographs could have been taken, but alas, as is often the case, it was probably assumed and taken for granted that the railroad landscape would remain virtually unchanged for the foreseeable future.

As a young boy in the '50s, it was a tradition for my dad and I to go to the B&O model train exhibit at Christmas which was then located for years in downtown Cincinnati at the CG&E headquarters at 4th & Main Sts.

In hindsight, these and many other instances are no doubt responsible for my affinity for things B&O.

Paul

I have 3 b.o. boxcars one is a round roof mth.Another one is the sentinel service maded by weaver.The last one is another mth time saver service.

Here are some more B&O photos from the Free State Junction Railway.

"Linking 13 Great States With The Nation - B&O"

John

Here is some more of my B&O collection

That's a lot of B&O!!  

This from my YouTube Channel / Published May 11, 2017 • Playtime 6 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b11FINkEzwE

I saw this locomotive at "The B&O Railroad Museum". This is a museum exhibiting historic railroad equipment in Baltimore, Maryland, originally named the Baltimore & Ohio Transportation.

This video is a product review, MTH / RailKing Streamlined Hudson, also called C&O Yellowbelly, on a Lionel train layout. I also talk about the MTH Handheld Controller upgrade to 6.0 & the B&O Railroad Museum.

Gary

Does this count?

Denny,

I think the Chessie B&O counts.  I saw lots of them on, what will always be the B&O mainline to me!

Mark,

Chessie has become one of my favorite. I like the look of them.

Lots of nice B&O trains!  It would be hard not to have a warm spot for Baltimore & Ohio.  Its royal blue paint schemes, good passenger service, mountain grades, pleasant-looking steam engines, and generally friendly corporate culture were endearing traits.

working hard switching out some ore cars....

There are K-Line's 15" cars, 4 of them. They didn't produce any additional for this set. Have some Lionel RS16s to pull these but can't locate the photos. 

Might consider selling these to buy some 18" cars if anyone is interested.

More of the collection 

I have this Williams F7 set & 15 misc. freight cars.

Charlie

c.sam posted:

There are K-Line's 15" cars, 4 of them. They didn't produce any additional for this set.

 

I'm in the same boat, so to speak.  I have this 15" set.  I regret that K-Line dropped its fire before they made additional coaches, sleepers, ...even a strata-dome in Beano colors.  I'm entrenched in the 15" passenger paradigm for a variety of reasons I'll not bore everyone with, so 18"...or bigger...are not an optional alternative for me.

OTOH, this situation has tempted me to find a smooth-side K-Line set of 15-inchers in another road having an appropriate mix of car styles which I could (GULP and GASP!) strip and repaint in Beano Blue & Gray.  Yeah, the matching lettering would be another hand-wringer, but my cardiologist sez I'd survive the ordeal.....('But don't push it much longer!')

So many temptations.....so little time.

I have the MPC Lionel C&O U36B in Chessie tri-color.

Dominic Mazoch posted:

I have the MPC Lionel C&O U36B in Chessie tri-color.

Plus the PW C&O NW2

Just received my Lionel 6 set die cast B & O hoppers.

Have noticed in some of the photos posted here that the different companies use different shades of gray on their B&O equipment. Having 'grown up' with the handsome Lionel 2368 F3, I've always preferred a light shade without having knowledge of the prototype colors which I gather are considerably darker - both the gray AND the blue.

Look how light they look here. Obviously, photos can be non-conclusive.

Who produces the closest to true B&O colors?

Lionel's Columbian

c.sam posted:

Have noticed in some of the photos posted here that the different companies use different shades of gray on their B&O equipment. Having 'grown up' with the handsome Lionel 2368 F3, I've always preferred a light shade without having knowledge of the prototype colors which I gather are considerably darker - both the gray AND the blue.

Look how light they look here. Obviously, photos can be non-conclusive.

Who produces the closest to true B&O colors?

...in comparison to what?  Beano color chips?  Fresh paint?  Oxidized/aged paint?  Factory delivery?  Regional paint shop/crew?  In sunlight?  In shadow?  Freshly washed equipment?  Dirty/grimy equipment?  Sunglasses?  Through tears at departures?  Combinations and permutations of aforementioned?  And, last but not least in color-fidelity discussions, "et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!", "Yada, yada, yada!", and "Blah, blah, blah!"

I grew up in D.C..  Dad rode the Beano on business.  The family rode the Beano to Chicago and back every year on our way to Mom's family in Wisconsin.  I've got Beano in de blood, so to speak.  Most of the blue&gray products of recent (20 years past) production...HO, N, and O...look good to this aging memory.  Of course, there's always the Baltimore museum of Beano treasures to reference in such enigmatic conundrums.

No disrespect, C.Sam, but I've always considered the 2368 and Williams version of the same as too light on the gray, and they 'blew the blue'.  OTOH, since they are on the toy end of the O3R spectrum, who cares?

But I'm not a picker of nitz, so I love 'em all!!  It's the celebration of a great railroad and it's history that I enjoy as part of the hobby.  

MHO, of course.

KD

KD.  I am finding myself drifting more and more to wanting to be more accurate in my railroading. I had the MTH B&O E6 passenger set some years ago and it seemed way to dark to me at the time. At present I have the Lionel B&O RS16s and the K-Line 15" cars posted above which I like better now.

Don't want to end up a 'picker of nits' either!  :-)

I have mostly Chessie and C&O:

c.sam posted:

Have noticed in some of the photos posted here that the different companies use different shades of gray on their B&O equipment. Having 'grown up' with the handsome Lionel 2368 F3, I've always preferred a light shade without having knowledge of the prototype colors which I gather are considerably darker - both the gray AND the blue.

Look how light they look here. Obviously, photos can be non-conclusive.

Who produces the closest to true B&O colors?

Sam, it appears as these Lionel units would be spot on in the same sun light situation.

I think you may be correct Ron.  My Legacy Sharks have a nice rich blue and the gray is not overly dark.  The gray on most models appears too dark to me which is a just a personal preference, I'll admit. I have some photos of them somewhere and will try to post them soon

Someone added C&O when I wasn't looking.  No fair! 

Bruce

B&O/best&only posted:

When I was born, my family lived a literal "stones throw" from a busy B&O line in Cincinnati and a short walk to the B&O main in Winton Place. As a very small boy, my dad would frequently take me trackside to the busy Winton Place station to watch the passing B&O, NYC, PRR and N&W action. Though I have no specific memories of equipment or road names, I do recall steam locomotives and the passage of passenger trains. Oh, that photographs could have been taken, but alas, as is often the case, it was probably assumed and taken for granted that the railroad landscape would remain virtually unchanged for the foreseeable future.

As a young boy in the '50s, it was a tradition for my dad and I to go to the B&O model train exhibit at Christmas which was then located for years in downtown Cincinnati at the CG&E headquarters at 4th & Main Sts.

In hindsight, these and many other instances are no doubt responsible for my affinity for things B&O.

Paul

Paul,

What a great story.  I am from Ohio and have been to Cincinatti many times. I know it has a great railroad history.

A little more C&O:

Ken

I just got a MTH Premier B&O F7 ABA:

Coming soon to a train table near me

Just scored a Lionel B&O F3 A unit. Pix to follow.

Hi Gang,

Here's some B&O freight and passenger photos from my current and earlier layouts and my very recent C&O coal train pulled by my faithful ROW 2-6-6-2 (like the one I assume runs or will run on the Western Maryland).

Mo' B&O in the stable...

caboose...

...and...

..and...

FrankM, Moon Township, USA

Yes, B&O Lionel Legacy Em-1

Broadway Limited C&O L-1 Hudson (Orange Body, HO)

Hallmarks of B&O: manicured ballast along main R-O-W, CPL signals, distinctive "wagon top" cars, frequent headlight placement atop smokebox,

B&O/best&only posted:

Hallmarks of B&O: manicured ballast along main R-O-W, CPL signals, distinctive "wagon top" cars, frequent headlight placement atop smokebox,

I didn't know all that - good learning it. Thanks!     FrankM

Here is some more B&O from my layout.

Great thread! Thanks for starting.  

More B&O and C&O

my only B&O......

Posted elsewhere in other threads, but has to be added here.

Bob

A couple of Chessies too!

More B&O 

Here are a few.

Cleaning track so I had to move everything to the other side of the layout making for a quite a traffic jam. All C&O.

Ken

Custom painted Atlas SD40's.

Ken

Mark Boyce posted:

Here are a few.

Nice collection Mark. This one in particular. 

RSJB18 posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

Here are a few.

Nice collection Mark. This one in particular. 

Thank you!!  I have a Chessie caboose, but it is WM.

Here is more B&O.