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B&O GP40 3741 and another GP40 backing down to their train, Cumberland, Maryland, yard, 1976.
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B&O GP 3741 and another GP40 coupling up to their train, Cumberland, Maryland, yard, 1976.
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Eastbound B&O freight departing Cumberland, Maryland, yard,. led by GP40 3741, 1976
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B&O SD40 7500 awaits a call for helper service in Confluence, PA, 1976
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B&O SD40 7500, Confluence, PA, 1976
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Sam Ravenscroft, B&O Tower Operator, Confluence, PA, 1976
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With the Homestead High Level Bridge in the background, a B&O coal train led by SD35 7440 heads toward the railroad's Glenwood Yard in PIttsburgh, PA. 1976
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Speno track cleaning train in Etna, PA, 1974
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SOO LINE boxcars returning to the midwest on the B&O are reflected in the foreground, while a WM freight occupies the far bank of the Youghiogheny River. 1976
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B&O used ALCO switchers, such as this 1000 hp S4, well into the 1970's. Glenwood yard lead, Pittsburgh, PA, 1976
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B&O GP9's 6663 and 6486 and a Glenwood-bound coal train. 1976
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B&O SD35 leads a westbound coal train past the Confluence, PA, community center, 1976
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3 B&O and Chessie System GP40 locomotives, in helper service, drift west and pass the Confluence, PA, community center, 1976
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A transfer run powered by GP9 5947 and an ALCO S4 head south on former PIttsburgh Junction trackage, now (2014) owned and operated by the Allegheny Valley. 1974
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Mixed freight heads west in Confluence, PA, led by 2 GP40 and one GP9 locomotive. 1976
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An open autorack loaded with SAAB automobiles is the first car in this westbound B&O freight train, along the Youghiogheny River south of Connellsville, PA. 1976
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Pittsburgh's Panther Hollow in 1975. Two Baltimore and Ohio mineral trains pass, the northbound loaded with coal, and the southbound with limestone for the J&L steel mills. In 2014, Allegheny Valley RR owns and uses this track.
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Panther Hollow pushers, on the B&O, 1975
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B&O GP30 6911 pushes a Speno track cleaning train through Etna, PA. 1974
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Schenley Tunnel looks like a mousehole in the distance as this northbound Chessie System coal train approaches the underpass beneath the PC, ex-PRR mainline Bloomfield section of PIttsburgh. 1974
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The railroad and highway engineers crammed their rights-of-way into a small space on the entrance to Etna, PA. Here, B&O GP30 6911, powering a Speno work train, receives orders for northbound route ahead. 1974.
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Chesssie System I-12 caboose C2453 trails a Speno crew car as the track cleaning in Etna, PA, continues, 1974.
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B&O GP30 6911 pushes a Speno track cleaning train through Etna, Pennsylvania. 1974
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Coal in Connellsville, PA, 1976
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Grafton, WV, 1974
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On a gray and chilly day, B&O's Connellsvile, PA, yard is crowded and busy making up trains. 1976
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B&O GP9 5958 and SD35 7440 lead a coal train toward Pittsburgh's Glenwood Yard. 1976
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Grafton, West Virginia, December, 1976.
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