Baltimore & Ohio

 

Baltimore area page two.

 

boCXtowerBalt.jpg (151362 bytes)  CX tower was located at Carroll's Interlocking just outside downtown.

bo3511CXbalt.jpg (90149 bytes)  3511 leads a westbound by the tower.

bo3732CXbalt.jpg (114691 bytes)   bo3732CXbalt2.jpg (179138 bytes)  GP40 3732 and some older power bring an eastbound through CX Interlocking.

bo6593CXbalt.jpg (180961 bytes)  GP9 6593 pulls a cut of piggyback flats out on to the main.

boSwitcherCBjctbalt81.jpg (204833 bytes)  An EMD switcher moves a few cars on the west side of town near Curtis Bay Jct.

bo3511CBjctBalt.jpg (191123 bytes)  3511 again at Curtis Bay Jct.  Note the small herald and numbers.

bo3706CBjctBalt.jpg (75155 bytes)  GP40 3706 zips by with a local on the main Curtis Bay Jct.

bo4255CBjctBalt.jpg (104585 bytes)  bo4280CBjctBalt.jpg (143555 bytes)  bo4309CBjctBalt.jpg (113069 bytes)  This is the junction of the main and the line to Curtis Bay Yard.
Curtis Bay is where the coal trains offload their cargo on to waiting ships.  Here in the late hours of the day, two coals trains head to the yard.

bo7610CBjctBalt.jpg (101624 bytes)  bo4045CBjctBalt.jpg (64175 bytes)  A SD40-2 7610 is passed by a merchandise freight. February 18, 1979 was not the best day to be out.  With several inches of snow on the ground and a new storm moving in, I should have stayed home. 

bo_csx7737CBjctBalt1994.jpg (159403 bytes)  This is a westbound on the eastbound main in 1994.  The line to Curtis Bay is to the left.  Another freight is waiting in distance.

bo3511CurtisBay.jpg (157380 bytes)  bo3511CurtisBay2.jpg (161987 bytes)  3511 again brings its train into the yard.  Curtis Bay is on the near southwest side of town.

bo6598CurtisBay.jpg (145116 bytes)  A pair of GP9's are at the modest service area on 11-5-1978.

bo8407CurtisBay.jpg (129694 bytes)  Surrounded in a sea of black hoppers, this little SW-1 stands out with its bright Chessie System paint.  10-12-80.

bo7608CurtisBay.jpg (154607 bytes)  SD-40-2 7608 and two GP40's have cut off from their coal train. 11-5-78.

bo1835CurtisBay.jpg (130224 bytes)  SD9 1835 is assigned as the coal dumper power this day. 11-5-78.

boBarneyCurtisBay.jpg (152030 bytes)  This rather neat little contraption pushed individual cars out of the dumper.  It carried number 1.

bo_csx6688CurtisBay92.jpg (131881 bytes)  A former Seaboard Coast Line GP40 and two CSX units at Curtis Bay in 1992.

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