4-6-4 Class L-1 'Hudson' Streamlined C&O Profile and Models

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway built a class of 4-6-2 'Pacific' locomotives in the 1920s to haul secondary passenger trains. Some of these were eventually rebuilt into streamlined 4-6-4 'Hudson' locomotives in 1946 and 1947 for the purpose of hauling the "Chessie Streamliner"m which was unfortunately cancelled. These rebuilt locomotives instead continued to haul secondary passenger services, until retirement in 1953. One of the class survived in storage in West Virginia until 1968, when it was donated to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, where it survives to this day on static display.

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