Baltimore and Ohio Modelers?

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I started a new thread in layout engineering called csx mountain subdivision that I will be posting more pic's

Good man!

[brokemoto]

Two pikes.  The two foot by four is a nineteenth century pike that has mostly B&O, although I will run nineteenth century equipment for other roads on it.  It is really a generic nineteenth century pike populated mostly by B&O power, cabooses and passenger cars.  The freight cars are the usual mix.



The under construction pike is a fictitious B&O secondary set in the mid 1950s.  Smaller B&O steam is easy as USRA light mikados, pacifics and 0-6-0s are commercially available.

[Blazeman]

I won't say I model B&O, but I tend to favor it in my purchases. Allows some mixing of RDG power when running trains.

Next Novmember when the layout open house tour is up and running around Phila and the Delaware Valley, by all means make the effort to see Ted McLean's layout in Glenside, which is a Sand Patch presentation done extremely well (and in N).

[davefoxx]

All right, Ron, you piqued my curiosity about CSX #6532, so I googled it.  Looks like you've got more parts to remove.   

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2704460

[u18b]

All right, Ron, you piqued my curiosity about CSX #6532, so I googled it.  Looks like you've got more parts to remove.   

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2704460

Haha.  You know sometimes you just want to capture the look and feel of a model.

[Csxmtsub]

I won't say I model B&O, but I tend to favor it in my purchases. Allows some mixing of RDG power when running trains.

Next Novmember when the layout open house tour is up and running around Phila and the Delaware Valley, by all means make the effort to see Ted McLean's layout in Glenside, which is a Sand Patch presentation done extremely well (and in N).

.      Yes I agree, a must see layout. My mountain sub in Kintnersville will be open in November as well. And Ted also helps me with my layout. 

[brokemoto]

[rogergperkins]

I model the B&O in the Midwest, i.e. central Illinois, in the autumn of the 1940s.
I allow myself considerable poetic license because locomotives, rolling stock and cars and trucks for the era
are limited. 
My primary interest is the steam era, but again various BLI B&O E units with sound have drawn me a few years ahead. I have been modeling in n-scale since the mid 1970s.  I enjoy heavy weight passenger train consists and have 3 Kato GS-4s lettered for B&O to head these trains.
Nearly all my freight rolling stock is MTL and this also has led to purchasing B&O boxcars from various eras.   I also model online interchanges with NKP and C&EI.

Previous layouts have allowed space to model a time warp by using a hidden staging yard where more modern locomotives, etc. could be held.  After adding the option of DCC in 2012, I added 3 Kato SD70ACes to roster and some CSX boxcars.

To broaden my knowledge of B&O, I have become a member of the Historical Society, also participate in yahoo forums for B&O and BnO n-scale.  I have a small collection of books on B&O as well.

[ChristianJDavis1]

Does anybody know whether or not B&O/C&O used their E-units in freight service later in their lives, as did other railroads, or did they continue to use them strictly for passenger service? I have been accumulating a collection of B&O equipment, and would like to devise some interesting consists to run.

[brokemoto]

Not all B&O E units went to AmTRAP.  It did retain some E-8s for use on freight.  According to a fellow B&O fan, and he would know, they did regear them and  use them to haul coal in West Virginia.  When I expressed my surprise that an A-1-A trucked locomotive could succeed at hauling so dense a commodity as coal, he assured me that he saw it happen more than once.  He would know.

I do apologise for pushing redundancy on stating fellow B&O fan.  As EVERYONE is no doubt aware, anyone who has any interest in railroads has TWO favourite railroads:  the Baltimore and Ohio and one other.

[SkipGear]

I guess you would call me a B&O modeler...

[rogergperkins]

Skipgear, thank you for the pictures and participating in this discussion. Roger

[rogergperkins]

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Baltimore_and_Ohio/
If you are not already participating in this forum, it is worth considering.
There is also a BnO forum n-scale focused in the yahoo selection, but it has much less
activity.

[ChristianJDavis1]

Yes, thank you very much, Skipgear, for including those pictures. Those are excellent models, and look much bigger than 1:160! Also, thank you to everyone who responded to my question regarding the B&O's usage of E-Units on freight.

[Blazeman]

Next Novmember when the layout open house tour is up and running around Phila and the Delaware Valley, by all means make the effort to see Ted McLean's layout in Glenside, which is a Sand Patch presentation done extremely well (and in N).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=80xrDDIwG5U&NR=1