CO 2-6-6-6 #1606 - Chesapeake & Ohio  Contributor's Pick!       
The ground must have shook when this monster rolled past even at slow speeds! Wish I could have heard its huffing and puffing in the West Virginia hills! Specifics - H-8 class, 67" drivers, impressive 260 psi boiler pressure, 22.5x33" cylinders, engine weight of 771,300 lb, massive tractive effort of 110,211 lb, scrapped between 1952-56. Arthur B. Johnson photo
Date: 8/2/1953 Location: Russell, KY   Map Show Russell on a rail map Views: 393 Collection Of:   Gary Everhart
Locomotives: CO 1606(2-6-6-6)    Author:  Gary Everhart
CO 2-6-6-6 #1606 - Chesapeake & Ohio
Picture Categories: Roster,Yard,Steam This picture is part of album:  C&O STEAM ALBUM
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Name Type Comments Date
Butch Getz General Nice "monsters", and hear the track groan! 10/25/2015 8:27:23 AM
Aaron Willard General Growing up in the Coal fields of WV l wish it could have been of this time. 10/25/2015 9:05:19 AM

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