4/11/21

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog.  Today's image is of the same locomotive as last week at the B&O Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.  Obviously this is a front view of this beautiful old locomotive.  You can see the ceiling pretty well which I haven't mentioned much but the roundhouse is just gorgeous.  The wood ceiling and the floor are beautiful as is the turntable which can be operated by just one person it is so well balanced.  Part of the ceiling had collapsed in 2003 but fortunately this very old locomotive was not in it's normal place at the time so was not damaged.  This is the William Mason and was built in 1856.

4/4/21

 It's a double digit day!  😁  It is also Steamy Sunday here on the Blog.  Today we return to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore Maryland.  Today's locomotive is the William Mason, a beautiful 4-4-0 American type built in 1856 and named after it's and 753 others builder.  It's number is 25 and it was used extensively during the Civil War to carry troops and supplies for the Union.  It is the first locomotive for the B&O to have a Stephenson link motion valve gear and a round smoke box set on a cylinder saddle.  It was not in the roundhouse during the roof collapse of 2003.  It was last under steam in 2012 and was restored back to it's original look in 2017. It is now stored in the roundhouse.  It was sitting in the Roundhouse in 2005 when I got this photo.

3/21/21

 It's Steamy Sunday and sort of a double digit day.  😊  Once again I am going back to my trip to the B&O Museum in Baltimore Maryland.  When I was there, they were still repairing the museum from a roof collapse 2 years prior due to an unusual amount of snow, at least 6 foot drifts.  Some of the locomotives were behind plexiglass partitions due to safety concerns.  In looking at my images, I was not as good a photographer back then to adjust for the issues.  This image is a good example of that but I still wanted to share it because it is a cool locomotive and was one in the Youtube video I watched.

This is CNJ No 592 a Central Railroad of New Jersey "Atlantic Camelback" 4-4-2 and was built in 1901.  It was built with a larger firebox to burn a harder type of coal, anthracite, so the cab sat on the side of the boiler.  It had a water scoop so it could pick up water on the fly out of special troughs in the tracks.  It pulled passenger trains and could reach speeds of 90 mph.  It was retired in 1949 and donated to the museum in 1954.  Sorry my image has annoying flag reflections.  😏  You can also see a glimpse of the beautiful roof that had been rebuilt from the collapse.

3/14/21

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog!  Here's another locomotive from the B&O Museum in Baltimore Maryland.  This is Baltimore & Ohio No. 5300 Pacific type 4-6-2 named President Washington.  This locomotive was built in February of 1927.  It was first unveiled at the B&O's Centennial celebration and was one of 21 locomotives for the railroad's Royal Blue Passenger Route between New York and Washington DC and was considered one of the most handsome of these Pacific type locomotives.  The 5300 was retired in 1957 and was the only one of the "Presidential" locomotives to not be scrapped.  It looks like this locomotive is also now housed indoors.

3/7/21

 It's Steamy Sunday!  Today's post digs back quite a ways into the archives.  I saw a video recently about the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore Maryland and remembered I had some images from a visit there before I started to do a Blog.  Here is the firs locomotive from there with a view of a bit of the museum itself, it is housed in the original Roundhouse.

This is an Allegany type locomotive, meaning it is a 2-6-6-6 ( 2 pilot wheels, 2 sets of 6 drivers and 6 trailing wheels).  It competes for largest US locomotive with the UP Big Boy.  This is Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad locomotive 1604.  It was built in December of 1941.  This Allegheny type is only one of 2 remaining, the other is at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan and I had shared an image of it after I visited there.  It was donated to the B&O museum in 1986.  I believe this locomotive is now housed indoors.