Can you help identify this steam locomotive?

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Hello. I am hoping someone can help me identify this old steam locomotive # 1311. Any information would be helpful. I think it is a camelback with a wooten firebox - but I really don’t know anything about trains. The only help I can give is that the postcard has a Station A Cleveland Ohio cancel and is postmarked April 23, 1910. There is a B. D. scratched into the negative, but maybe that was supposed to be B. O.

Thank you for your assistance.

Tim

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Baltimore & Ohio 4-6-0 “Ten Wheeler.” See links below.

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bo/bo-s1316gga.jpg

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bo/bo-s1332vaa.jpg

…and the index page of the B&O Steam section of George Elwood’s excellent “Fallen Flags” reference…

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bo/bo-steam.html

-Will Davis

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For reference - spotting features for camelback locos seen from the (almost) front:

  • Only one dome (sand box) between cab front and stack.
  • Space between cab and tender filled with the wide skirts (with air tanks above) of the Wooten firebox.
  • A second ‘cab front’ just ahead of the tender, for the fireman’s shelter.

The loco in the photo has a narrow firebox and the cab at the rear of the boiler, with the tender close behind the rear of the cab. Definitely not an anthracite burner; and Ohio isn’t anthracite country.

Chuck

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Wow, that was fast! Thanks Will. You are much appreciated.

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Thank you. Chuck. I can hardly believe how knowledgeable you guys are. Very helpful information.

Thanks,

Tim