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Photo Identifier
1978.0227.02.16.03
Description and Location
ca. 1946-48
C&O Railroad streamlined engine No. 490 with tender at the Huntington yard.
A coal-burning steam engine, it was the first streamlined engine on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. Rebuilt in the railroad's own shops at Huntington, W.Va.
This is a 4-6-4 steam engine.
Newspaper article says originally built in 1926 as a 4-6-2, but converted to 4-6-4 in 1946.
Pulled passenger trains No’s 1 & 2, "The George Washington."
Transportation Category
Railroads and Railroad Stations
Media Format
photographic print
Keywords
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, railroad locomotives, railroads, steam engines, The George Washington
