CDOT FL9 2016

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Connecticut Department of Transportation (CDOT) 2016 was leading a commute train at Stamford, CT on Thursday, June 29, 1995.
CDOT 2016 was an EMD FL9. Reportedly: it was built in 1960 as New Haven 2044, serial number 21990. It became PC 5044, before becoming MNCR 5044 then MNCR 2016 and then CDOT 2016. It reportedly survived.
According to Otto Vondrak (in Feb. 2019), "The CDOT 2016 was part of the gang of six auctioned off in 2018, and the 2016 is now at Grapevine Railroad in Texas." 

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Negative from roll 39.14, printed, scan 2019.2.3.1.8-ph
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First Streamlined Diesel-Electric

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On Thursday, May 21, 2026, at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum (reporting mark BOMX) in Baltimore, Maryland, was Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (reporting mark BO) BO 51.
The museum's BO 51 is an EMC EA. Reportedly, built in 1937, serial number 666, it was the first streamlined diesel-electric locomotive in the world. In 1953 it was traded back to EMD. It was stripped of its usable machinery, cosmetically restored, and sent to the newly opened Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Transportation Museum, as it was known at the time.
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Nikon Z50, Nikkor Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens,
Image: 2026.6.5.1.75-ph

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C&O 490 and I

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On Thursday, May 21, 2026, at the Baltimore and Ohio railroad museum (reporting mark BOMX) in Baltimore, Maryland, was the museum's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O, reporting mark CO) 490.

The Museum's C&O 490 is an ALCo built L-1 class 4-6-4 Hudson. Reportedly it was built in 1926 as a 4-6-2 serial number 66555. It was rebuilt in 1946 to becoming a streamlined 4-6-4. In 1968 it went to the museum.

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Nikon Z50, Nikkor Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens,
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N.E. Regional No. 174 in Baltimore

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Amtrak (AMTK) 604 was leading Northeast Regional Train 174 on Thur, May 21, 2026, at the Baltimore, MD, Penn Station. My great nephew and I took this train from Washington DC to Baltimore to visit the B&O Museum.
AMTK 604 is a Siemens ACS-64. Reportedly it was built in 2015.
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Image: 2026.5.5.1.12-ph 

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I'm an amateur train hobbyist

I embrace being an amateur train hobbyist! I don't want to be considered an artist or an expert, because I don't want to think of myself that way. Whenever I have embraced terms like artist or expert I have found they start to degrade my enjoyment of trains. Whether it be real or model trains I like to photograph and/or model what I like, where I like and whatever era I like. New, old, rare, obscure, everyday, action or roster. I am my own target audience. I embrace being an amateur train hobbyist!

MARC 10 in Baltimore Penn

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On Thursday, May 21, 2026, Maryland Rail Commuter (MARC) 10 was at the Baltimore, Maryland, Station. Steve Sloan Photographer
MARC 10 is an MPI MP36PH-3C. Reportedly it was built in 2009, builder's number 0108-01.
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SP 3600 in Roseville

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Southern Pacific (SP) GP9 3600 was heading west around the wye on the east side of Roseville, CA on a warm Sunday, June 28, 1973. This was two months after the explosions that caused so much damage to the Antelope end of that yard.
SP 3600 was an EMD GP9, SP Class EF418-7. Reportedly: it was built in 1957 by EMD, builders number 22941, as SP 5759, SP Class DF-607.
In 1965 it was renumbered and reclassed to SP 3600 as shown.
This locomotive was upgraded and reclassed in 1975 emerging as SP 3803 EMD GP9R, SP Class EF418E-3.
The disposition of this locomotive is: Retired in 1991, sold in 1992, it became Yolo Shortline 131.
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Analog Image, Kodachrome Slide 2.5-981, Hand Scan 2011.3.5.1.2-ph
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