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Sand Patch

By Angela Cotey | July 20, 2019

| Last updated on August 8, 2025

Baltimore & Ohio F7s tackle the twisting approach to the Sand Patch summit in southern Pennsylvania with an eastbound coal train in February 1953. The B&O had almost 300 F7 A and B units, in addition to FT, F3, and FP7 models.
S.K. Bolton Jr. photo

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