Nostalgia & History > A few at the B&O RR Museum

Oct 84
Some of the equipment sitting outside the B&O museum in Baltimore back in 1984.
The Western Maryland engines (and GG1) look to be freshly painted.
ClubCar mentioned that in later years the passenger cars left outside are in poor shape.
I hope these units (and the REA car) have held up better over the years.

Gary



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/05/20 09:20 by gcm.

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Photo four with the three noses is my favorite.
Bob

Nice work , Gary. Thanks for sharing. 

Always good to see South Shore equipment no matter where it ended up!

Chili169 Wrote:
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> Always good to see South Shore equipment no matter
> where it ended up!

In the second & fifth images, 802 can be seen, one of three such electrics owned by the South Shore

The 802 went to the Lake Shore Railway Museum in North East, PA, east of Erie, after these photos were taken.

The 803 went to the Illinois Railway Museum.

The 801 was scrapped.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/05/20 19:59 by RuleG.

gcm Wrote:
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> Oct 84
> Some of the equipment sitting outside the B&O
> museum in Baltimore back in 1984.
> The Western Maryland engines (and GG1) look to be
> freshly painted.
> ClubCar mentioned that in later years the
> passenger cars left outside are in poor shape.
> I hope these units (and the REA car) have held up
> better over the years.
>
> Gary
The two Western Maryland diesels are still in the museum collection and unfortunately, neither of them now operate.  The F unit #236 was operable in the past when they had both paid and volunteers caring for this unit, but with the mismanagement of the museum through the years, the one fellow who worked so hard to keep it operable is no longer there.
The GG1 is no longer there, it went to another museum out of state as did the South Shore equipment.  As for the condition of the stuff sitting outside, I have not been there in at least 4 years, but others have told me that everything sitting outside continues to rust away.  Here is an example of a passenger car, Food Bar Coach #3000 rusting away and I'm sure it even looks worse than this photo from several years ago.  The horrible management (several key people who ran the place into the ground) are no longer there and hopefully with some new folks now engaged there things will improve.  However, the museum is closed due to the pandemic, thus they do not have much income coming in either.  I do not want to say anything else negative right now as we all have enough problems with this virus and the civil unrest that has been going on in Baltimore.
John in White Marsh, Maryland a/k/a ClubCar

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Most of the engines and equipment looked well maintained back then.
Thanks for the interesting photo postimg.
ALLEN

Looking at C&O 490, it looks lke a small piece of the front pilot wheel, near the rail, is missing.

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Thanks ClubCar for the updated info.
Gary

ClubCar Wrote:
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> gcm Wrote:
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> > Oct 84
> > Some of the equipment sitting outside the B&O
> > museum in Baltimore back in 1984.
> > The Western Maryland engines (and GG1) look to
> be
> > freshly painted.
> > ClubCar mentioned that in later years the
> > passenger cars left outside are in poor shape.
> > I hope these units (and the REA car) have held
> up
> > better over the years.
> >
> > Gary
> The two Western Maryland diesels are still in the
> museum collection and unfortunately, neither of
> them now operate.  The F unit #236 was operable
> in the past when they had both paid and volunteers
> caring for this unit, but with the mismanagement
> of the museum through the years, the one fellow
> who worked so hard to keep it operable is no
> longer there.
> The GG1 is no longer there, it went to another
> museum out of state as did the South Shore
> equipment.  As for the condition of the stuff
> sitting outside, I have not been there in at least
> 4 years, but others have told me that everything
> sitting outside continues to rust away.  Here is
> an example of a passenger car, Food Bar Coach
> #3000 rusting away and I'm sure it even looks
> worse than this photo from several years ago. 
> The horrible management (several key people who
> ran the place into the ground) are no longer there
> and hopefully with some new folks now engaged
> there things will improve.  However, the museum
> is closed due to the pandemic, thus they do not
> have much income coming in either.  I do not want
> to say anything else negative right now as we all
> have enough problems with this virus and the civil
> unrest that has been going on in Baltimore.
> John in White Marsh, Maryland a/k/a ClubCar

Reopened 6/27/20, but that fact would just get in the way of your usual rant...

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