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Nostalgia & History > Massillon Monday - B&O 6491Date: 11/13/17 00:04 Massillon Monday - B&O 6491 Author: refarkas A fine layer of dust has gently weathered B&O 6491. She sits in front of the B&O Massillon, Ohio freight station in June 1973.
Today the B&O, Chessie System, the Massillon freight house and its tracks are all gone. This is now an empty weedy area where the last of the ex-B&O tracks is now the mainline of RJ Corman as it heads through Massillon. Bob  Date: 11/13/17 03:47 Re: Massillon Monday - B&O 6491 Author: kgmontreal And a GP18 to boot.
KG Date: 11/13/17 06:18 Re: Massillon Monday - B&O 6491 Author: Notch76 Its a shame how the railroad landscape has been altered I grew up in Lorain Ohio where the Ex Nkp crossed the B&O 90% is now gone
Date: 11/13/17 07:47 Re: Massillon Monday - B&O 6491 Author: King_Coal Despite the dust, you caught it in great condition. Thanks for posting.
Date: 11/13/17 08:44 Re: Massillon Monday - B&O 6491 Author: train544 Hi Bob
Very nice pic and catching the GP9 at Massillon Those were good engines and we used to do the service work on it in Willard Oh Tom Boylan Date: 11/13/17 09:09 Re: Massillon Monday - B&O 6491 Author: stevelv kgmontreal Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > And a GP18 to boot. > > KG 6491 is a GP9. I don't think B&O ever owned any GP18's. Date: 11/13/17 09:37 Re: Massillon Monday - B&O 6491 Author: YukonYeti Bob caught a rare creature. According to numerous sources, the B&O had a single GP18.
Back to my cave.. YY Date: 11/13/17 10:08 Re: Massillon Monday - B&O 6491 Author: krm152 That is a very nice 3/4 front roster photo of B&O GP9 #6491 in Chessie scheme that I liked very much.
For the record, B&O did own one GP18, it was #6599. ALLEN Date: 11/13/17 10:32 Re: Massillon Monday - B&O 6491 Author: penncentral74 A B&O source I found states that 6491 was heavily damaged in a wreck and received a GP18 carbody via EMD rebuild. I think it was a Franken-unit because it maintained it's 36" fans instead of the 48" fans found on late GP9's and GP18's.
Date: 11/13/17 11:46 Re: Massillon Monday - B&O 6491 Author: refarkas Thanks to penncentral74 for clarifying the GP18 status.
Bob Date: 11/13/17 14:11 Re: Massillon Monday - B&O 6491 Author: WrongMain Whatever the heck it is, this is a great shot of a good looking working high hood. You caught it the right way, too, long hood forward, the way the B&O operated them. The Chessie System scheme was hard to beat when it was clean, just as this shot demonstrates.
Date: 11/17/17 16:23 Re: Massillon Monday - B&O 6491 Author: Gateway97 Nice sunny day shot of Chessie purring on the siding. The B&O had a GP18M (6599) that still had a rating of 1750 HP like the previous GP9’s.
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