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Owner: Baltimore & Ohio
Model:Alco 2-8-8-0Built As:BO 2427 (0-8-0)
Serial Number:53753Order No:S-968
Frame Number:26&41X32 cylinders 57" driversBuilt:8/1913
Notes:0-8-8-0, Schenectady 08/1913 as 0-8-8-0 #2427, reblt in 1916 to class LL-1
Other locos with this serial:  BO 7045(2-8-8-0)
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BO 0-8-8-0 #7045
Title:  BO 0-8-8-0 #7045
Description:  This massive articulated 0-8-8-0 was built for the Baltimore & Ohio by Alco-Schenectady in 1913 as one of 30 "pushers". According to one online source, these massive articulated locomotives built to serve as pushers were "slow and complicated". Two were rebuilt as EL-4 2-8-8-0's as a result. Final members of the class like this one were scrapped in 1949-50. Specs - serial #53753, class LL-1, 56" drivers, 210 psi boiler pressure, 28x32" high pressure cylinders, 41x32" low pressure cylinders, engine weight of 471,900 lb, impressive tractive effort of 98,352 lb. Photo by rr engineer/photographer C.W. Burns.
Photo Date:  10/26/1947  Upload Date: 1/6/2019 6:53:07 AM
Location:  Brunswick, MD
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  BO 7045(2-8-8-0)
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