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B and O’s first EA road diesels were assigned to the Capitol Limited and the National Limited, the fleet leaders. It’s highly unlikely a secondary train would have diesels in that era.
Not from the 30’s but the 50’s
I have a copy of the reprints of the June, 1916, and January, 1930, Guides. My only complaint concerning them is that they have the so-called “perfect” binding, which means that all of the pages are glued to the spine–and the spine of each one is broken about in the center. I also have a copy of the reprint of the June, 1893, issue; since it does not have as many pages, it is in better condition, despite being bound in the imperfect manner. When later issues were reprinted, I was strapped for funds, so I did not buy them.
I would recommend becoming a member of the B&O Historical Society (email: info@borhs.org; website www.borhs.org). They have a wealth of information. Actually, the most likely steam engine type on secondary passenger trains on the Pittsburgh Division was PROBABLY some variation of the B&O’s 70 Pacific type engines in the P-1 class. These included classes P-1, P-1aa, P-1b, P-1ba, P-1c, P-1d, and P-1da, with numbers scattered through the 5000-5094 number series. The P-1’s were B&O’s primary passenger locomotives for heavy mainline service in the mountains. It is possible that other Pacific classes may have been used on these trains. P-1’s are seen in the video cited by “Balt” in the first scene (about 50 seconds to about 2 minutes), and again doubleheaded at 3 minutes to about 3:13. In addition, the B&O’s two class T Mountain types and their T-1 and T-2 experimental Mountain type engines (one of each) were in operation. The Class N experimental Duplex drive locomotive, number 5600, was built in 1937. These engines probably didn’t handle secondary trains.