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By:Mike Woodruff
Dates:9/1/1971 - 6/1/1980
Album Info:B&O and C&O subjects photographed mostly in New Jersey and Ohio during 1971-1979
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B&O 3710
Title:  B&O 3710
Description:  A pair of B&O GP40s on the CNJ with tonnage for E'port Yard. B&O 2710 was later GATX 3710, rebuilt to MARC GP39H-2 #74. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1970  Upload Date: 2/8/2021 4:20:35 PM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 3710(GP40)
Views:  172   Comments: 0
B&O 3730
Title:  B&O 3730
Description:  A B&O GP40 handles a short freight bound for the yard at E'port. She was later rebuilt to GATX GP38M 3730, then became ARZC/PSAP/CBR 3802, then exported to Africa in 2020 as RLPX 2001. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1970  Upload Date: 2/9/2021 10:05:53 PM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 3730(GP40)
Views:  150   Comments: 0
B&O 6601
Title:  B&O 6601
Description:  On loan to the CNJ, B&O 6601 is on the east end of a westbound push-pull consist. She is ex-B&O 3408, nee-B&O 748. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1970  Upload Date: 2/14/2021 5:32:35 PM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 6601(GP9)
Views:  178   Comments: 0
B&O 6602
Title:  B&O 6602
Description:  On loan to the CNJ, B&O 6602 is on the west end of a westbound push-pull consist. She is ex-B&O 3409, nee-B&O 749. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1970  Upload Date: 2/14/2021 5:33:15 PM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 6602(GP9)
Views:  167   Comments: 0
B&O 6912
Title:  B&O 6912
Description:  Tonnage headed for E'port is led by B&O GP30 6912, and passes the local working in the background with a N&W F-unit. SJB catches the action at left. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1970  Upload Date: 2/14/2021 5:33:48 PM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 6912(GP30)
Views:  171   Comments: 0
C&O 7476
Title:  C&O 7476
Description:  C&O SD40 7476 handles an eastbound freight on the CNJ at Elizabeth. She was later C&O 7576, CSXT 8427. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1970  Upload Date: 1/14/2020 6:07:15 PM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  CO 7476(SD40)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
C&O 7478
Title:  C&O 7478
Description:  C&O 7478 waits for clearance into E'port yard. She was later C&O 7578, CSXT 8429. The number of the trailing B&O F7B was not recorded. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/10/2021 5:16:20 PM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  CO 7478(SD40)
Views:  208   Comments: 0
B&O 3713
Title:  B&O 3713
Description:  An assemblage of B&O and RDG power heads out to pick up their train. B&O 3713 was later GATX 3713, BN 3077, MNA 3077, CORP 3077, CORP 4203. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/28/2021 7:19:38 PM
Location:  Jersey City, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 3713(GP40)
Views:  186   Comments: 0
B&O 3738
Title:  B&O 3738
Description:  B&O 3738 was later GATX 3738, rebuilt to SP GP40M-2 7129, UP 1507. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/28/2021 6:55:45 PM
Location:  Jersey City, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 3738(GP40) CNJ 1506(H-15-44)
Views:  217   Comments: 0
B&O 6601
Title:  B&O 6601
Description:  B&O passenger Geep 6601 works for the CNJ, shoving a rush-hour train to Raritan. She is ex-B&O 3408, nee-B&O 748. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/28/2021 8:40:50 PM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 6601(GP9)
Views:  170   Comments: 0
B&O 6914
Title:  B&O 6914
Description:  Photographed at Jersey Central's Communipaw engine facility, B&O 6914 would later become CSXT 4236, OHCR 4236, ARZC 3004, CFNR 3004, IARR 3004. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/28/2021 6:46:50 PM
Location:  Jersey City, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 6914(GP30) BO 3730(GP40)
Views:  237   Comments: 0
B&O 7499
Title:  B&O 7499
Description:  Assemblage of power at Communipaw. B&O 7499 was later Western Fuels Association WFA-3, Escalante Western 603. Railfan Paul C. is next to the FM, while Dave L. carries an umbrella and Larry G. is at far right. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/15/2021 6:25:11 PM
Location:  Jersey City, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 7499(SD40)
Views:  186   Comments: 0
C&O 3003
Title:  C&O 3003
Description:  C&O power lays over at Jersey Central's Communipaw engine facility. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/11/2006 7:13:39 AM
Location:  Jersey City, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  CO 3003(GP30) CO 7467(SD40) CNJ 1522(GP7)
Views:  1637   Comments: 2
C&O 7520
Title:  C&O 7520
Description:  C&O freight headed for Potomac Yard via the Southern. C&O 7520 was later CSXT 8379, Utah Railway 9006, is extant as WSOR 4079. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/17/2008 5:18:51 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  CO 7520(SD40)
Views:  915   Comments: 0
B&O 6609
Title:  B&O 6609
Description:  Remnants of the sunburst scheme on the nose of this rather tired-looking B&O passenger Geep. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/26/2008 1:52:05 PM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 6609(GP9)
Views:  1210   Comments: 0
B&O 7491
Title:  B&O 7491
Description:  B&O was pooling with Cotton Belt through E. St. Louis; seeing the SP/SSW power up on the New Castle district was a bit unusual at the time. B&O 7491 was later B&O 7591, then CSXT 8433, CSXT 4620, HATX 600 and DME 6055. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/26/2008 6:31:41 PM
Location:  Nova, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 7491(SD40)
Views:  1638   Comments: 5
C&O 3903
Title:  C&O 3903
Description:  Southbound C&O train of empty N&W hoppers headed to Columbus. C&O 3903 was later CSXT 4283. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/26/2008 11:38:10 AM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  CO 3903(GP39)
Views:  1674   Comments: 2
C&O 7431
Title:  C&O 7431
Description:  C&O SD35 431 leads a westbound on the B&O, about to cross the PC. She was later CSXT 4573, and was scrapped 3/92. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/26/2008 2:01:22 PM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CO 7431(SD35)
Views:  1599   Comments: 1
C&O 7479
Title:  C&O 7479
Description:  C&O 7479, leading a train of empty hoppers south through Marion, was part of the first order of C&O locomotives to be delivered in the so-called "merger" (C&O-B&O) paint scheme. She would later be C&O 7579 and CSXT 8430.
Photo Date:  10/1/1972  Upload Date: 1/27/2007 11:39:11 AM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CO 7479(SD40)
Views:  1430   Comments: 3
C&O 7511
Title:  C&O 7511
Description:  C&O 7511, shown here crossing the B&O southbound at F tower, was later CSXT 8370. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/26/2008 2:13:02 PM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  CO 7511(SD40)
Views:  1362   Comments: 1
CO 2317
Title:  CO 2317
Description:  Two GEs bracket a pair of GP40s on a southbound manifest. The GP40s would survive well into the CSX era; their U-boat contemporaries fared less favorably. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  11/1/1972  Upload Date: 8/5/2020 2:30:46 PM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CO 2317(U23B)
Views:  280   Comments: 2
C&O 3917
Title:  C&O 3917
Description:  C&O 3917 was later CSXT 4297. Shown here on a southbound hopper train at Marion. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  11/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/28/2008 4:23:36 PM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  CO 3917(GP39)
Views:  904   Comments: 2
C&O 7465
Title:  C&O 7465
Description:  A C&O coal drag heads north through Marion at dusk. C&O 7465 was later renumbered 7565, scrapped at Waycross 1/90. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  11/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/28/2008 1:24:07 PM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  CO 7465(SD40)
Views:  987   Comments: 1
C&O 7466
Title:  C&O 7466
Description:  Two C&O SD40s with a northbound coal train at Marion. Lead unit 7466 was later C&O 7566, now CSXT 8417. Trail unit was later CSXT 8385, UTAH 9004. Shovel company now demolished. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  11/1/1972  Upload Date: 1/28/2007 3:46:46 PM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CO 7466(SD40) CO 7526(SD40)
Views:  1698   Comments: 1
C&O 7521
Title:  C&O 7521
Description:  An SD40/U30C/GP7 combination on a southbound hopper train. C&O 7521 was later CSXT 8380. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  11/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/27/2008 3:37:49 PM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  CO 7521(SD40)
Views:  854   Comments: 1
B&O 4008
Title:  B&O 4008
Description:  B&O GP40s pull through the CNJ station at E'port with tonnage up from Philly via the RDG/CNJ. Lead unit 4008 was later CSXT 6583, NCDOT 1768, VREX V24, and is now USAX 4672. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  12/1/1972  Upload Date: 1/29/2007 2:09:43 PM
Location:  Elizabethport, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 4008(GP40)
Views:  1629   Comments: 1
B&O 3559
Title:  B&O 3559
Description:  A southbound freight on the CH&D works past the depot at Wapakoneta. Happily, the depot still stands in 2017. B&O 3559 was later rebuilt to road slug CSXT 2202. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 2/28/2017 5:37:16 PM
Location:  Wapakoneta, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 3559(GP35)
Views:  473   Comments: 1
B&O 3704
Title:  B&O 3704
Description:  An EB B&O freight passes Sterling tower and a crew cleaning up from an earlier EL derailment. B&O 3704 later worked for BN, Indiana Southern, and is now CORP 4021.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 12/31/2008 4:41:15 PM
Location:  Sterling, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 3704(GP40)
Views:  1400   Comments: 1
B&O 3755
Title:  B&O 3755
Description:  Three B&O GP40s on this eastbound, passing the scene of an earlier EL derailment at Sterling tower. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/3/2009 7:52:48 PM
Location:  Sterling, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 3755(GP40)
Views:  1063   Comments: 1
B&O 3814
Title:  B&O 3814
Description:  B&O GP38 3814 leads a westbound at Sterling. The N&W hopper is on the EL at left. B&O 3814 was later CSXT 2014, CSXT 9666. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/4/2009 12:17:55 PM
Location:  Sterling, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 3814(GP38)
Views:  820   Comments: 0
B&O 4124
Title:  B&O 4124
Description:  B&O 4124 leads a hopper train off of the CL&W at Sterling. She would later become CSXT 6024.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/3/2009 7:30:34 PM
Location:  Sterling, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4124(GP40-2)
Views:  794   Comments: 1
B&O 4149
Title:  B&O 4149
Description:  An EB B&O freight passes Sterling tower and a crew cleaning up from an earlier EL derailment. B&O 4149 is now CSXT 6049. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 12/31/2008 3:52:46 PM
Location:  Sterling, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 4149(GP40-2)
Views:  874   Comments: 0
B&O 4608
Title:  B&O 4608
Description:  B&O F7A 4608 displays remnants of the "sunburst" paint scheme on her nose. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 7/11/2007 10:55:49 AM
Location:  Butler, PA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 4608(F7A)
Views:  2444   Comments: 2
B&O 4809
Title:  B&O 4809
Description:  B&O GP38 4809 rides the turntable in front of the shop buildings at Lima. She was later CSXT 2109, CSXT 9660, LLPX 2055. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 2/28/2017 5:27:41 PM
Location:  Lima, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 4809(GP38)
Views:  486   Comments: 0
B&O 6485
Title:  B&O 6485
Description:  B&O Geeps and an Alco switcher take a break at the small yard in Butler. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 12/31/2008 1:43:17 PM
Location:  Butler, PA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 9017(S4) BO 6485(GP9) BO 6538(GP9)
Views:  1317   Comments: 0
B&O 6490
Title:  B&O 6490
Description:  A nearly new SP tunnel motor is about the last thing we expected to find in the B&O's small engine terminal at Lima. B&O 6490 is believed extant as York Rail 1754. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/2/2009 9:45:47 PM
Location:  Lima, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 6490(GP9) SP 9259(SD45T-2)
Views:  1449   Comments: 2
C&O 3046
Title:  C&O 3046
Description:  Northbound at Fostoria; the former NYC trackage and depot are at right. C&O 3046 would later be CSXT 4233. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/1/2009 7:00:57 PM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CO 3046(GP30)
Views:  1458   Comments: 1
C&O 3908
Title:  C&O 3908
Description:  A GP39 handles a high and wide move through Marion. AC tower is at left. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 12/31/2008 9:18:14 PM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  CO 3908(GP39)
Views:  839   Comments: 0
SP 9259
Title:  SP 9259
Description:  A nearly new SP tunnel motor was a surprise find in the B&O yard at Lima, OH.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/2/2009 9:52:01 PM
Location:  Lima, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 9259(SD45T-2)
Views:  1026   Comments: 0
B&O 4062
Title:  B&O 4062
Description:  A northbound on the Newark-Willard line flies remnants of white flags at Spring Mill. B&O 4062 was later CSXT 6637, rebuilt to MARC GP40WH-2 66, MBTA 66, rebuilt to CFRC MP32PH-Q 110. Pole line is parallel ex-PRR main. Ashland Railway now operates here.
Photo Date:  2/11/1973  Upload Date: 1/7/2006 4:42:32 PM
Location:  Spring Mill, OH
Author:  Brian Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 4062(GP40)
Views:  887   Comments: 3
C&O 7309
Title:  C&O 7309
Description:  C&O 7309 rides on Alco trucks; later became IC/ICG 7309, IBCX 7309.
Photo Date:  2/17/1973  Upload Date: 11/30/2010 7:46:27 PM
Location:  Raceland, KY
Author:  Unknown
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Locomotives:  CO 7309(SD18)
Views:  1443   Comments: 0
C&O 7531
Title:  C&O 7531
Description:  A pair of C&O SD40s sandwich a GP40 on this southbound crossing the EL and PC at Marion. C&O 7531 was later CSXT 8389. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/7/2009 11:47:27 PM
Location:  Marion, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  CO 7531(SD40)
Views:  919   Comments: 0
B&O 4119
Title:  B&O 4119
Description:  A pair of B&O units on southbound tonnage on C&O's former Pere Marquette trackage near Alexis tower in Toledo. B&O 4119 would later be CSXT 6019. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/10/2009 3:48:09 PM
Location:  Toledo, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 4119(GP40-2)
Views:  715   Comments: 1
C&O 7457
Title:  C&O 7457
Description:  A C&O SD40 leads a B&O GP40-2, both in their "as delivered" paint schemes, on B&O's Newark to Willard line. This was one of the very first railroads built in Ohio. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/9/2009 4:44:11 PM
Location:  Spring Mill, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CO 7457(SD40) BO 4132(GP40-2)
Views:  1186   Comments: 1
B&O 3549
Title:  B&O 3549
Description:  Not sure if this train is heading east on the New Castle sub, or just working the east end of the yard, but in any case, B&O 3549 is on the diamond with the line to Newark, originally built as the Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark, one of Ohio's very first railroads. B&O 3549 was later CSXT 4389, is extant as CSXT road slug 2299. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/23/2009 9:19:06 AM
Location:  Willard, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  BO 3549(GP35)
Views:  1091   Comments: 2
B&O 3753
Title:  B&O 3753
Description:  A pair of B&O GP40s work a northbound freight on B&O's Newark-Willard line. This was one of the first railroads built in Ohio, predating even the former Pennsy Chicago mainline which can be seen at right. B&O 3753 was later CSXT 6529, then rebuilt to UP GP38M-3 2518, renumbered to UP 1018, is believed extant as KCS 1018. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/13/2009 10:33:02 PM
Location:  Spring Mill, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 3753(GP40)
Views:  693   Comments: 1
B&O 4045
Title:  B&O 4045
Description:  A GP40 leads two GP35s on an eastbound, about to cross the C&O diamonds at F tower. B&O 4045 became CSXT 6620, was later HATX/PRLX 425, and was subsequently rebuilt to BRC GP23ECO 230. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/21/2009 1:02:08 PM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4045(GP40)
Views:  881   Comments: 0
B&O 4105
Title:  B&O 4105
Description:  B&O 4105 was one of a handful of units from this order which were delivered with silver trucks. She was wrecked at Orleans Road WV in February 1980 and later scrapped. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/20/2009 2:51:03 PM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4105(GP40-2)
Views:  1127   Comments: 2
B&O 4148
Title:  B&O 4148
Description:  Westbound approaching Fostoria from Willard. B&O 4148 was later CSXT 6048. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/21/2009 10:01:00 PM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4148(GP40-2)
Views:  834   Comments: 2
B&O 4148
Title:  B&O 4148
Description:  Changing of the guard at Fostoria. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 6/14/2009 2:11:13 PM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4148(GP40-2) BO 4622(F7A)
Views:  1182   Comments: 1


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