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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway No. 1308 is an articulated 2-6-6-2 "Mallet" type steam locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1949. It was the next to the last Class 1 mainline locomotive built by Baldwin, closing out more than 100 years of production, a total of more than 70,000 locomotives.
A very similar design, the USRA 2-6-6-2 was chosen by the United States Railroad Administration as one of its standard designs thirty years earlier during World War I. The advantage of the design was that it could be used on the relatively light, tightly curved, branch lines in West Virginia and Kentucky coal country, and that's where it worked for its seven-year working life, making the two-hour run from Peach Creek, near Logan, West Virginia to the Ohio River at Russell, Kentucky with an occasional trip to Hinton, West Virginia. Its use in heavy mountain railroading is emphasized by its two cross compound air compressors mounted on the smokebox door to supply enough air for frequent heavy braking.
The class was unusual for the time in that they were true Mallets, since their steam was expanded once in their smaller rear cylinders and then a second time in their larger front cylinders. While compound locomotives are more efficient than single expansion, their extra complication led to very few United States railroads using them after the turn of the century. The C&O had a long history with Mallets and they were ideal for slow speed work in West Virginia.
After its last run on February 29, 1956, it was stored at Russell until the C&O gave it to the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society, Inc., a group founded in 1959. Collis P. Huntington is best known as one of the Big Four who built the Central Pacific Railroad from San Francisco to Promontory, Utah, but following that he spent at least ten years as a leading figure of the C&O. he C&O donated the engine to the New River Train Group in 1962 as has been on since been on static display at the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society, Inc.
This is an old compressor/generator on a built-in trailer that was used to power the air drills for drilling into the granite of the mountain. It is located way up in the bowl above the Gold Cord Mine and above the Elevation cabin.
but i really am in need of it again as more projects are on the way.
While i asked way too much out of this unit , my hat is off
for this product as it wasn't rated for sandblasting.
It did a great job with restoring small railroad signal parts
mostly Style D semaphore lamps .
the total of those lamps restored a total of 12.
Two dwarf mechanical signals
and a few other odd and ends .
So im happy of what it did till its unwanted death.
So im going to try to bring it back for a few more things
and wait for a professional sandblasting rig.
which a good one will run 5-8k .
Transporting the Largest Air Compressor Sears had at the store. The guys at merchandise pickup laughed when they saw I was driving a MINI. I told them it would fit.
Make: KSB - EH-251.
Year: 1989
Type: Reciprocating.
Cylinder / Stroke: 3 / 304 mm.
Delivery Pressure: 7 Kg / Sq. Cm.
Power: 90 KW Motor.
Receiver Capacity: 2832 Liters.
Complete with air coolers, air filters, oil coolers and other accessories.