Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 Mallets 1309 and 1302 are departing Scarlet, West Virginia, in June 1950 with a loaded coal train. The 10 members of C&O’s H-6 class were the last steam locomotives built for domestic use by Baldwin Locomotive Works (1949). Engine 1309 is being restored for service on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad at Cumberland, Maryland.
Photo by Gene Huddleston
Rumbling thunder on the tracks… Remember that Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 Mallet 1309 is one of only two surviving H-6’s, the other of which is C&O 1308, which is on static display at the Collis Potter Huntington Railroad Historical Society.
Dr. Güntürk Üstün