I have two B&O engines currently and was wondering what other lines (Chessie I know for sure) operated in the same area as the B&O’s did? I was trying to locate a map and failed. If anyone has information regarding this it would be most helpful.
Thanks!
-Dale
DTockell,
It depends on the period. I see that the C and O, Southern, N and S, Pennsy, NYC, NJ, and the B and O reached into the great lakes and into St. Louis as well as Cinnicinati and towards buffalo NY.
I am using the Realistic Operations Guide from Kalmbach as a guide in road names of nearby roads. I also feel that if you like an engine of a different road, run it. It is about having fun.
Good Luck
Lee
RDG, WM, C&O, CNJ, PRR, NYC, NKP, RFP, WAB, L&N, N&W just to name a few.
If you are talking about what road names ran with B&O power, here’s what I remember seeing on the C&O side. B&O power ran on coal, manifest, and mine shifters with units from these roads: C&O, WM, Clinchfield, Chessie, A&WP, Family Lines, Seaboard Coast Line, and Seaboard System. Every so often I recall seeing Conrail power with B&O on New River Sub trains. Also on the NF&G, I sometimes saw UP/B&O/C&O units running together. As for paint schemes - anything was possible.
Hope this helps
work safe
Rand McNally published books “RR Atlas of the US” which showed most rail lines of the day. I have a reprinted 1926 and another that’s about 25 years old. These show you all the connections and crossings that the RR would have. I don’t know if they still publish, but you should be able to get an old copy at a train show.
There is a modern version that shows much more detail, but they have the same sized book just covering a few states.
I know the EL operated in some of the same areas as the B&0, as did the Monon
in Louisville and Indianpolis I believe.
The Balto. & Ohio was a LARGE railroad, and up until its CSX incarnation it was the oldest of the class-1 railroads. In other words, your question is just not quite specific enough. In 1976 (I believe), the B+O, the C+O, and the WM teamed up to become the Chessie System; in the early '80’s the Chessie System merged with the Seaboard System/Family Lines to form CSX, which exists today. The B+O began in 1831. You do the math!
The B+O began, of course, in Baltimore, then headed west. A line from Washington DC meets up with the line from Baltimore in Point-of-Rocks Maryland, and then continues along by following the Potomac River along the MD state line. This is the “core” of B+O, where it slithers across the Appalachians: the focal point, or fulcrum, is Cumberland, MD. Beyond this point, the B+O accesses all of Ohio, practically, and as it grew over the years through both corporate success and mergers, its reach broadened into the midwest and elsewhere. So, with all this in mind, if you have on hand some more recent diesel engines, then they might operate anywhere in the yankee east or midwest, and could interchange with just about any eastern railroad. If you’ve got older steam locomotives, then you might just concentrate on the other appalachian railroads (as I do), such as Pennsylvania RR, Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, New York Central, Reading, Western Maryland, Southern, etc.
As I mentioned in response to another thread, I got hooked on the N+W based on a single good-running N-scale engine, which happened to be painted as N+W #307. Sounds like you might be going down teh same road! More power to ya.
When you consider that the B&O reached Chicago and had it’s own belt line B&OCT to Grand Central Station & the Union stockyards, you could interchange with almost every RR in the country. Keep looking in the bookstores & LHS in your area. There ought to be some good quick histories of B&O available with color photos. Also, go to the B&O Museum site. I bet they’d be glad to help out!