In the last light of very cold Winter day, H-6 Class Mallet 2-6-6-2 steam locomotive #1309 built by Baldwin in 1949 is seen making its way around the iconic Helmstetter's Curve. She was re-lettere... (more)

H-6 Class Mallet 2-6-6-2 steam locomotive #1309 built by Baldwin in 1949 enters Brush Tunnel on its way to Frostburg, MD. She was re-lettered in the Chesapeake & Ohio livery for a series of charte... (more)

H-6 Class Mallet 2-6-6-2 steam locomotive #1309 built by Baldwin in 1949 runs round the curve near Cumberland & Pennsylvania Bridge #2 on its way to Frostburg, MD. She was re-lettered in the Chesa... (more)

We're standing under the Main St. SW bridge, between two of the world's greatest steam locomotives- N&W Class A No. 1218 on the left, and C&O H-8 No. 1604 on the right. The location is the old Roa... (more)

Treasures of the Henry Ford: The Allegheny Cab Here's a look at the "business office" of the big C&O 2-6-6-6 Allegheny Locomotive, which is housed in The Henry Ford Museum of Amer... (more)

Treasures of The Henry Ford: The C&O Allegheny. According to the docents at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, the most heavily photographed artifact in their building is this ma... (more)

Ten months after the devastating flood that brought destruction to the Roanoke Transportation Museum, C&O H-8 Allegheny, 1604 is sitting at the Roanoke East End Shops where she has been cleaned up... (more)

Devastating flood waters in November of 1985, brought destruction to the Roanoke Transportation Museum, then located in Wasena Park. The force of the water pushed C&O H-8 Allegheny, 1604 under the... (more)

Devastating flood waters in November of 1985, brought destruction to the Roanoke Transportation Museum, then located in Wasena Park. The force of the water pushed C&O H-8 Allegheny, 1604 under the... (more)

The massive backhead of C&O "Allegheny" 1604 on display at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD.

C&O "Allegheny type" No. 1604

C&O #1604 was built by Lima Locomotive Works in December of 1941. The railroad worked with Lima on the project in an effort to tackle its tough Allegheny M... (more)

An ancient replica of an even more ancient DeWitt Clinton sits to the left of a very real Lima Allegheny at the Henry Ford Musuem in Dearborn.

Not too far from Peach Creek, C&O had a string of 2-6-6-6’s condemned to scrap in the yard at Hinton, W. Va., such as 1624 on Aug. 5, 1956. I was too late to see and hear the brutes in action.

The evolution of the steam locomotive is prominently displayed at The Henry Ford. One hundred ten years of locomotive technology separate the DeWitt Clinton of 1831 (represented with this 1893-b... (more)

Inside the cab of the monster: C&O 1604. The engineer that cracked the throttle of this locomotive started in motion twelve 67-inch drive wheels that delivered over 7,300 horsepower to the rails.... (more)