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B&O 4-6-2 Pacific 5300, The President Washington, at the B&O Museum, Baltimore, MD on January 19, 1969

Details on the Museum's web site http://www.borail.org/BO-No5300.aspx

Enjoy,
Marty Bernard



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/18/20 17:25 by MartyBernard.

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Thanks for sharing that wonderful photo, Marty!
SR2

Bruce Fales caught it at Ivy City 7-10-38.  [Louis Marre collection]

Gordon

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I love the location of that bell...
 

Lost the disc driver on the way to the museum?

Tom

There is a great fast running pacing sequence of this engine in the DVD "B&O Classics", filmed by Dr. Howard Blackburn in 1956 when the 5200 was running passenger trains out of Louisville, Ky to Cincinnati. 

-JH

You know it will probably never happen but could you imagine this locomotive restored to operating status?

UP3806 Wrote:

> Lost the disc driver on the way to the museum?

It's still there, but the positioning of the rods makes it harder to discern.  See: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2323990

WauhopM Wrote:
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> You know it will probably never happen but could
> you imagine this locomotive restored to operating
> status?
It will never happen due to the mismanagement of the people in charge of that museum.  Do not go to the B&O R.R. Museum in Baltimore.  You will be completely disappointed and outrageous with the happenings going on there.  I am not making this up.
John in White Marsh, Maryland

Unfortunately, I don't think that restoration is possible.  It was stored tin the old Mt. Claire shops when they burned.  The restoration is purely cosmetic.

Here it is in the B&O Museum in 2018.


Chris
 

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I know the footage well!  It inspired a painting that I did, in fact, (inserted below).  I've always wondered why the 5200 wasn't modernized, as were so many of the presedent series pacifics. 


Panamerican99 Wrote:
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> There is a great fast running pacing sequence of
> this engine in the DVD "B&O Classics", filmed by
> Dr. Howard Blackburn in 1956 when the 5200 was
> running passenger trains out of Louisville, Ky to
> Cincinnati. 
>
> -JH

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ClubCar Wrote:
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> WauhopM Wrote:
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> > You know it will probably never happen but
> could
> > you imagine this locomotive restored to
> operating
> > status?
> It will never happen due to the mismanagement of
> the people in charge of that museum.  Do not go
> to the B&O R.R. Museum in Baltimore.  You will be
> completely disappointed and outrageous with the
> happenings going on there.  I am not making this
> up.
> John in White Marsh, Maryland

Stop.  Just Stop.

The B&O Museum is in better shape than ever and is one of the top places in the country.  Quit bitching about the donated cars from 40 years ago.