Baltimore & Ohio #1 "The National Limited"

Name	Type	Comments	Date

David Abeles	General	Amazing. I knew an engineer by the name of Tom Gosson, nicknamed "the Goose", who was an engineer on the CNJ from the mid-1920's through Conrail and retired in 1978 working Eport Yard. His father-in-law, whose name was Packie, was an engineer on these B&O trains. GREAT to see these photos!	12/18/2008 3:09:10 PM

Richard Bischoff	General	A four track main line, at least three of which existed on C-Day, which was turned into another 20+ mile bottleneck by "Constipated Rail." Ugh!	10/31/2021 2:33:23 PM

Richard Bischoff	General	s/b "single track bottleneck" - really need an "edit" feature!	10/31/2021 2:34:03 PM

Baltimore & Ohio #1 "The National Limited"
CKF's notes only identify this train as a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train. I am assuming it is The National Limited based on the shadows and head end cars (but am still working on solving the puzzle as the lack of streamlined cars impugns this idea greatly). If so, this was a Jersey City to St. Louis train. The westbound is about to pass under the telltales for Camp Meeting Road. Power is EA #51 (delivered May 1937) and an unidentified E6(B). It looks as if the E units are blowig smoke, although the angle of the smoke may mean it's actually just a flaw in the image (like the streaks clearly are).
Date: 9/1/1947	Location: Skillman, NJ Map	Views: 4025	Collection Of: Charles Knox Freericks
Locomotives: BO 51(EA)			Author: Charles Knox Freericks

Picture Categories:		This picture is part of album: 1940s and 1950s

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