DescriptionChesapeake and Ohio Lima 2-6-6-6 locomotive.jpg
Builder's card for the Chesapeake and Ohio's 2-6-6-6 "Allegheny" locomotives. Lima Locomotive Works was the builder of the units.
Date
Not dated. The company built locomotives like this for the C&O between 1941 and 1948. The C&O owned 60 locomotives like this-this particular order was for 15 of these.
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