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Chesapeake Beach Railway #10 |
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Built by the Burnham, Williams & Company subsidiary of the Baldwin Locomotive Works in April of 1901 with construction number #18879, #10 was constructed as part of an order of sixteen new 2-8-0 Consolidations from the Burnham, Williams & Company built between 1901 and 1903 for the Western Maryland Railroad. Classified as an H-4 by the Western Maryland, the locomotive was numbered #101 and was the class leader of the bunch. Due to the Western Maryland's system wide renumbering program in 1906, #101 was renumbered #401 along with all it's sister locomotives following suit. The locomotive worked on the Western Maryland Railway out of the company's Knobmont Yard in Maryland Junction, West Virginia. The locomotive served the Western Maryland faithfully until October of 1930 when the engine was sold to the Chesapeake Beach Railway along with sister engine #409. When delivered to the Chesapeake Beach, the engine was repainted and renumbered #10 along with sister #409 which became #9. The two locomotives main purpose for being purchased by the railroad was to haul materials for the construction of public roads throughout Charles County including Chesapeake Beach. This being said, this locomotive along with #9 indirectly caused the financial ruin of the line by creating a gateway for the company's biggest competitor; the personal automobile. With the highways built and the railroad in financial ruin, old #10 was supposed to be returned to the Western Maryland Railway like sister engine #9. This never happened and #10 met it's end in August of 1936 after the bankruptcy and abandonment of the line in 1935. This photograph shows locomotive #10 and presumably Baldwin 4-6-0 #7 parked in the deadline at the Seat Pleasant, Maryland, Shops in the mid 1930's. Date is an estimate. Photographer unknown. |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1934 Upload Date: 4/9/2020 2:17:54 AM |
| Location: |
Seat Pleasant, MD |
| Author: |
Unknown |
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Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Steam,Track |
| Locomotives: |
CB 10(2-8-0) CB 7(4-6-0) |
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| Title: |
Chesapeake Beach Railway #7 |
| Description: |
Built by the Burnham, Williams & Company subsidiary of the Baldwin Locomotive Works in January of 1891 with construction number #14683, #7 was originally owned by the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railway as their 2nd #14 and hauled passenger trains all across Virginia's Eastern Shore until 1916 when it was sold to the Southern Iron & Equipment Company locomotive re seller of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1916. Assigned inventory number #1037 while owned by the SI&E Company, the locomotive was sold to the Brooklyn Cooperage Company's Butler County Railroad as their #11 located in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, on July 14, 1916. However, the locomotive was returned to the SI&E Company later that year after being considered surplus power and was assigned inventory number #1039. On March 13, 1917, the locomotive was sold to the Chesapeake Beach Railway and numbered #7 and served on the railway hauling passenger trains until the bankruptcy of the line in 1935. It was actually still on the property when the East Washington Railway assumed freight operations on the line from Chesapeake Junction in Washington D.C. to Seat Pleasant, Maryland, in 1936. The engine was probably used as a parts engine and was finally scrapped in February of 1942. This Charles E. Winters photographs shows #7 sitting in the deadline at the Seat Pleasant, Maryland, shops on June 3, 1935. Note the date as being after the Chesapeake Beach when their final train in April of 1935. |
| Photo Date: |
6/3/1935 Upload Date: 4/12/2020 6:20:39 PM |
| Location: |
Seat Pleasant, MD |
| Author: |
Charles E. Winters |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Steam,Passenger,Track |
| Locomotives: |
CB 7(4-6-0) |
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