George Elwood's Fallen Flags website has a large collection of B&O steam photos that are well worth looking at. I know the B&O renumbered many of its steam locomotives as dieselization progressed in the 1950s. I ran across this 4-6-2, from the former 5300 series, named after American Presidents, but am wondering which number and which name it had previously?

The 106, captioned as at Benwood, West Virginia, 5/24/57:

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bo/bo-s106ags.jpg

The B&O steam page:

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

Is there a site that details the B&O steam renumberings? At present, my only source is a roster in an early-1950s Railroad magazine, printed prior to the renumberings.

According to this roster:

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/bo_steam5.html

It is the President Tyler (ex-5803).

The President Tyler was originally in the B&O Vice President Class of 4-6-2 pacifics. The William Henry Harrison was one of the road's dockside 0-40Ts to reflect the short tenure of his presidency.

Sorry, it's been a long day.

I hesitate to ask about the "President Garfield" . . .

JAC

If we were to follow Mr. Wilkins' logic then President Garfield would have qualified for an 0-6-0, or perhaps the 0-8-0 "memnon" currently at the B&O Museum could have done the honor.

But to restate the facts here, Presidents Washington through Chester Arthur got their own locomotive with the exception of John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams who had to share a locomotive. I doubt that either one felt terribly slighted.

Charles Carroll of Carrollton laid the 1st stone of the B&O because President JQA had better things to do on 7/4/28. He was breaking ground for the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal.

Well, for the times, President Quincy Adams probably was making the right decision. And it made Charles Carroll of Carrollton (who at the time was the last survivor of those who signed the Declaration of Independence) somewhat famous, at least as an answer to Trivia questions.

Les