C&O 377

Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2004 12:48 pm

At Clifton Forge, 5/48, before becoming their ceremonial locomotive. Now at B&O Museum.

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?july03/07-24-03/c+o377.jpg
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Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2004 2:11 pm

> At Clifton Forge, 5/48, before becoming
> their ceremonial locomotive. Now at B&O
> Museum.

Hate to say this, but she looks a darn sight better in that photo than she does right now. She's a victim of peeling paint, rust, rot, and outside storage. I believe she's high-priority to go into one restoration shop or the other (existing or to-be-built), but have no way to confirm that, and besides, the B&O Museum has their hands full at the moment.

I'd post a current photo, but then I'd be accused of trying to stir up a hornet's nest again. I've sent current photos to others, and gotten responses that approximately equate the ruckus stirred up by the neglect that happened to DL&W 952 ("Let's volunteer to go in and paint it!" "Let's find her a better home!" etc.). Trust me, C&O 377 is in good hands--just don't look at her for the time being.

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Joshua K. Blay · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2004 3:06 pm

Wasn't she running for a time in 70s or even 80s? I seem to recall seeing a picture in a TRAINS or a R&R. Perhaps I saw another engine?

Joshua

Wesley Paulson · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2004 3:37 pm

> Wasn't she running for a time in 70s or even
> 80s? I seem to recall seeing a picture in a
> TRAINS or a R&R. Perhaps I saw another
> engine?

> Joshua

YES. The engine and the C&O coach, now at Strasburg for restoration, were used for a time on the Toledo, Lake Erie & Western in suburban Toledo.

Wesley

Erik Ledbetter · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2004 9:08 pm

> Hate to say this, but she looks a darn sight
> better in that photo than she does right
> now. She's a victim of peeling paint, rust,
> rot, and outside storage.

She was moved into the carshop in the early 90s to get her under cover and last I heard was still there, immured deep in the almost-never-switched Track 19. She went into the carshop about the same time as the PA and for the same reason--too precious to be sitting outside.

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Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2004 12:19 am

> She was moved into the carshop in the early
> 90s to get her under cover and last I heard
> was still there, immured deep in the
> almost-never-switched Track 19. She went
> into the carshop about the same time as the
> PA and for the same reason--too precious to
> be sitting outside.

WHAT PA? Since when does the B&O Museum have an Alco PA?

Sorry, mate, as of a couple days ago she's still outside, on a track clearly visible from Arlington Street between the normal yard switch leads and the exterior outer shed to the west of the roundhouse. Been there, by my guess, for at least two years, maybe a lot longer.

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Kevin Gillespie · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2004 9:26 am

377 was in the roundhouse in the late 1990's. She was moved outside about four years ago.

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Erik Ledbetter · **Posted:** Sun Mar 07, 2004 5:00 pm

> WHAT PA? Since when does the B&O Museum
> have an Alco PA?

Sorry, meant the EA.

> Sorry, mate, as of a couple days ago she's
> still outside, on a track clearly visible
> from Arlington Street between the normal
> yard switch leads and the exterior outer
> shed to the west of the roundhouse. Been
> there, by my guess, for at least two years,
> maybe a lot longer.

I'm sad to hear that.

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