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Owner: Baltimore & Ohio
Model:Alco 2-8-8-0Built As:Builder Info (Unavailable )
Serial Number:58065Order No:
Frame Number: Built:
Notes:Richmond, 1/1918 nee-SAL 2-8-8-2 503. sold 1920, reblt 1923, sfs 8/1950
Other locos with this serial:  BO 7302(2-8-8-0)
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BO 2-8-8-0 #7302 - Baltimore & Ohio
Title:  BO 2-8-8-0 #7302 - Baltimore & Ohio
Description:  This massive loco now appears to be sitting in the storage/scrap line at an unidentified locaiton - probably Grafton yards in West Virginia. This was originally built by Alco-Richmond in January of 1918 as Seaborad Air Line 2-8-8-2 #503. When the size and maintenance was too much of the SAL, they sold it to B&O in 1920 and renumbered BO 7302. In 1923, the B&O Shops undertook to rebuild it from a compound Mallet to simple-articulated,removed the trailing truck and reclassed BO 2-8-8-0 #7302 as EL-6a class. The loso was finally sold for scrap in August of 1950 after nearly 32 years of heavy service. Simplified EL-6a specs - 63" drivers, 200 psi boiler pressure, four 25x32" cylinders, engine wt of 492,000 lb and impressive tractive effort of 97,800 lb. No date, location or photographer was listed for this photo.
Photo Date:  6/1/1949  Upload Date: 3/16/2024 4:55:18 AM
Location:  Grafton, WV
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  BO 7302(2-8-8-0)
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