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Chesapeake Western

By Brian Schmidt | September 8, 2021

| Last updated on August 7, 2025

Chesapeake Western

Chesapeake Western DS-4-4-660 No. 662 switches at Harrisonburg, Va., on September 15, 1958. It was one of three such 1946 Baldwins on the 54-mile road. J.W. Swanberg photo

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