VOLUME 40, NUMBER 3 THIRD QUARTER 2018 Message from the President Well Fellow Members, We Are Now Half Districts and Colleges in Central Maryland
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ISSN 1053-4415 A QUARTERLY MAGAZINE PUBLISHED BY THE BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY $8.00 VOLUME 40, NUMBER 3 THIRD QUARTER 2018 Message from the President Well fellow members, we are now half districts and colleges in Central Maryland. The ofcial publication of way through 2018 and there has been some On June 5th we hosted the Carroll County THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY up and down during the last three months. Chamber of Commerce monthly meet and P. O. Box 1608 Let us start with events that were scheduled greet, and 32 community leaders attended Sykesville, Maryland 21784 since we last communicated. Te second and were very impressed. This was an E-mail: quarter of the Sentinel was late by several opportunity for us to introduce ourselves [email protected] Website: borhs.org weeks. After communicating with Ken to local businesses and community orga- Missing Sentinel: [email protected] Wing, our editor, I accept his explanation nizations. Ten on June 7th we had had The Baltimore and Ohio Historical Society is a non-proft and I am sure this was a rare occurrence the second community outreach presen- corporation dedicated to preserving and disseminating historical information about The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. and should not happen anytime soon. We tation by John Teichmoeller on Ilchester, Copyright ©2018 ISSN 1053-4415 try to have the Sentinel out within the frst Maryland. Tere were twenty people in 13 days of each quarter but sometimes vol- attendance and John did an outstanding unteers’ personal lives have to come frst, so presentation. We are looking for present- please be understanding. Te 2019 calen- ers on any railroad topic for 2019. If you dar has been done for at least two months live in the area or are going to be visiting, SOCIETY OFFICERS and is available for sale. Tis year there are let Grant Berry know. Finally, our Eastern Greg Smith - PRESIDENT [email protected] four additional pages of color photos to Mini-Con will be held on July 28th at the NIck Fry - VP OPERATIONS celebrate our fortieth anniversary. In early society’s building. [email protected] April we hosted the Chesapeake Division, Te retire-the-mortgage program is at George Stant - VP FINANCE NMRA monthly meeting and their atten- 11.5% towards our goal. For those who [email protected] Allen Young - SECRETARY dance was very poor with extremely warm have donated, many thanks. For those [email protected] and clear weather and a train show on the wanting to contribute who misplaced Chris Winslow - TREASURER same day. Te pilot student art program the form, a donation form will be on our [email protected] had poor participation and was not sup- website. Our goal is still to have every BOARD OF DIRECTORS ported by the community or membership. member contribute $35 each year for the Bruce Elliott (2020) Mike Shylanski (2018) Te Art Contest was posted on our website, next three years. Henry Freeman (2020) Tom Dupee (2019) Facebook page, sent to the local paper, and Te focus for the rest of this letter is not Dale Corn (2019) Grant Berry (2018) Bob Hubler (Past President) I sent personal emails to over forty friends fundraising, but member contributions Ofcers’ terms expire annually. Directors’ terms and family members. Tis was a learning and volunteering to provide some service expire in October of the indicated year. experience for me and the art judges said to the society. With over 1,200 members All directors may be reached at [email protected]. this frequently occurs the frst time. It will we should get more people to contribute EDITORIAL STAFF be scheduled on the frst Saturday of May their time to serve the society. Here are the Ken Wing, EDITOR—[email protected] Clifton Linton, Gene Stebbins, 2019 and expanded to three more school areas of need: (CONTINUED ON PAGE 39) and Richard Zeren, ASSOCIATE EDITORS [email protected] Al McEvoy, ARCHIVES In This Issue Greg Smith, (INTERIM) ARCHIVES PHOTO EDITOR B&O’s Toledo-Indianapolis Division’s First and Second Subdividions John Teichmoeller, B&O MODELER (Cincinnati to Lima) in 1975 by Stephen J. Salamon & David P. Oroszi ....................3 Craig Close, RUNNING LIGHT EDITOR Roberta Poling, Thunder Grafx, Ltd., Dayton Developments After 1975 ..........................................................17 GRAPHIC DESIGN—[email protected] Dayton is Home to the Oldest Existing Contributors welcome: by Leo DeLuca ............................................. 18 American-built Locomotive Articles, manuscripts, photographs, reviews, and other Toledo Division Railfanning Today ..................................................... 19 historical data are solicited for publication. Original material will be returned upon publication. Send all material to: Architecture as Competitive Strategy: Ken Wing, [email protected] Frank Furness and the Royal Blue Line by Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. ................................. 23 or mail hardcopy material to P.O. Box 1608, Sykesville, MD 21784 The End of Regularly Scheduled Passenger Service on the B&O in the Shenandoah Valley by Bob Cohen ...............................31 COMPANY STORE 37 Orders: Company Store link at borhs.org Running Light ....................................................................................... [email protected] 39 Archive Center Report ......................................................................... MEMBERSHIP [email protected] One year regular membership is $45.00. For other classes On the Front Cover or inquiries, write to the Society’s P.O. Box address, A southbound train of empty hoppers, en route from Toledo to Cincinnati, passes a pair of CPL signals at Miami- or email [email protected]. Shelby Road, between Sidney and Piqua, OH, on May 15, 1977. Although well into the Chessie era, this train is led For an address change, write to the P.O. Box address, by two GP9s still in B&O blue. Also in the picture is the highway competition, in the form of Interstate 75, closely or email [email protected] parallel to B&O’s line between Toledo and Cincinnati. (David P Oroszi) Memberships, once accepted, cannot be returned. 2 Third Quarter 2018 It is impossible to consider rail passenger trains without calling to mind famous named trains such as Te Royal Blue or Capitol Limited. Named freight trains are less well known. Of all railroads, the B&O had the most names and nicknames for its freight trains: an October 1949 booklet from the AAR (Association of American Railroads) listing freight train names for railroads operating across the US is the proof. The following article is a slightly revised version of one that appeared in the B&O Railroader in 1975. The present tense of in the era the original article has been maintained to refer to 1975. in the Era In this view from the parkingin garagethe for the Dayton ConventionERA Center, GP38 3838 is leading a southbound train on Dayton Union Railway trackage on April 28, 1974. Dayton Union Railway was jointly and equally owned by B&O, NYC, and PRR, and it provided a route through downtown Dayton that was used by trains of all three railroads. Prior to 1931, this right-of-way was at street level, and the frequent train movements caused a great deal of trafc congestion on city streets. An elevation project, completed in 1931, eliminated all grade crossings in the downtown area. There were four tracks between Dayton Union Station and Second Street Junction, where B&O’s Second Subdivision met the joint tracks. The outer tracks were for freight trains, and the middle tracks were used primarily for passenger trains. B&O’s Toledo-Indianapolis Division’s First and Second Subdivisions (Cincinnati to Lima) in 1975 By Stephen J. Salamon and David P. Oroszi he Toledo-Indianapolis Division has Tower in Lima, and the Tird Subdivision Additionally, ore trains from the Toledo Tbeen overshadowed by many other from NS Tower to Toledo. Tis line pro- docks move south to the ARMCO mills parts of the B&O; yet this division is a vides a convenient route from the Toledo- at Hamilton and Middletown. Of course, very important and prosperous portion Detroit area to Cincinnati connections there are many empties moving over their of the B&O system, with trackage reach- with the Southern (SOU) and Louisville respective reverse routes for reloading. ing north to Toledo, west to Indianapolis & Nashville (L&N) railroads. A sizeable In a normal operating day, over twenty and Springfeld, and east to Chillicothe. portion of southbound tonnage consists of trains are handled on this line. Te highest Te Cincinnati-Toledo main is the busi- auto parts and assembled automobiles for priority trains are Dixie 94 north and Dixie est portion of the division and is split into the connections as well as the Cincinnati- 99 south, which operate over the B&O three sub-divisions. Te First Subdivision St. Louis line of the B&O. A major part of and the Southern Railway (SOU) between extends from Cincinnati (Glendale) to northbound trafc is coal from the L&N Toledo and Atlanta, Georgia. Pooled SOU Dayton Union Railway (DURY) at Miami and Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) destined power is frequently seen on these trains. City Junction, the Second Subdivision from for the steel mills in Hamilton, coal docks Four additional high-priority freights are DURY at Second Street Junction to NS in Toledo, and Detroit area industries. scheduled daily between Cincinnati and Third Quarter 2018 3 The engineer of B&O train Hamilton 97 is about to get train orders from “Red” Surber, the operator at Tates Point Tower on the east side of Dayton, Ohio. Red was a Penn Central employee at the time, and the regular frst trick operator. At Tates Point, the B&O’s North Dayton Cutof crossed the joint Penn Central/Erie-Lackawanna double track mainline on the east side of Dayton. This train, however, is not using the North Dayton Cutof, but is using the original B&O line through East Dayton Yard.