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C&O Railway Series #9, C&O 4-8-2 Mountain Type Passenger Locomotives by Karen Parker
This book delineates the history of C&O’s J-1 and J-2 class 4-8-2 Mountain Type steam locomotives for the first time in detail. C&O pioneered the Mountain wheel arrangement with its first engines, in 1911, and named it for the Mountain Subdivision, over which the engines were built to carry heavy passenger trains. Subsequent to C&O’s introduction of the type, the Mountain became popular on many railroads and was soon established as a heavy passenger engine nationally. C&O used them almost exclusively between Charlottesville, Va. and Hinton, W. Va., where the mainline grades were the steepest and the passenger train consists the heaviest. Though supplanted in power by the J-3 4-8-4 Greenbrier type in 1935, the Mountains continued in use in this region, sometimes double-heading with the 4-8-4s and with heavy 4-6-2s. The book contains detailed data about the mechanical arrangement and appliances of these long-viable locomotives, and is supplemented with great original scale drawings as well as numerous C&O official mechanical drawings. This is the best coverage this type of C&O locomotive has ever received. A star in their day, the Mountains were in the background as the more powerful and far more glamorous 4-8-4s of 1935 and 1948 took center stage, but the 4-8-2 worked right up to the end. In their latter years they were used on the Kentucky sections of the name trains, on freights on The Chicago Division, and mainline local passenger trains. Modelers will appreciate the large photos and many drawings.
Softcover, 64 pages
C&O Railway Series #9, C&O 4-8-2 Mountain Type Passenger Locomotives by Karen Parker
This book delineates the history of C&O’s J-1 and J-2 class 4-8-2 Mountain Type steam locomotives for the first time in detail. C&O pioneered the Mountain wheel arrangement with its first engines, in 1911, and named it for the Mountain Subdivision, over which the engines were built to carry heavy passenger trains. Subsequent to C&O’s introduction of the type, the Mountain became popular on many railroads and was soon established as a heavy passenger engine nationally. C&O used them almost exclusively between Charlottesville, Va. and Hinton, W. Va., where the mainline grades were the steepest and the passenger train consists the heaviest. Though supplanted in power by the J-3 4-8-4 Greenbrier type in 1935, the Mountains continued in use in this region, sometimes double-heading with the 4-8-4s and with heavy 4-6-2s. The book contains detailed data about the mechanical arrangement and appliances of these long-viable locomotives, and is supplemented with great original scale drawings as well as numerous C&O official mechanical drawings. This is the best coverage this type of C&O locomotive has ever received. A star in their day, the Mountains were in the background as the more powerful and far more glamorous 4-8-4s of 1935 and 1948 took center stage, but the 4-8-2 worked right up to the end. In their latter years they were used on the Kentucky sections of the name trains, on freights on The Chicago Division, and mainline local passenger trains. Modelers will appreciate the large photos and many drawings.
Softcover, 64 pages
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