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Chesapeake and Ohio 1308
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1949· preserved C&O H-6 class 2-6-6-2 locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. C&O 1308: Nyttend· Public domain
what is it?
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 1308 is a preserved articulated 2-6-6-2 "Mallet" type steam locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1949. It was the next to the last Class 1 mainline locomotive built by Baldwin, closing out more than 100 years of production, a total of more than 70,000 locomotives. Its other surviving sister locomotive, No.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 77 years ago, in 1949.
- Weighs about as much as 33 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 30.4 m long: about 7 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 7 years (1949–1956).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1949
- in service from
- 1949
- retired
- 1956
- status
- retired
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-6-2
- length
- 30.4 m
- weight
- 197 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5005779, Wikipedia: Chesapeake and Ohio 1308 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.