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By:John Hepp
Dates:1/1/1975 - 12/31/1988
Album Info:My great uncle was a division superintendent for the B&O and he was responsible for my childhood interest in trains. I was always a B&O fan.
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B&O 6614
Title:  B&O 6614
Description:  An EMD GP9 initially used on passenger service switching at Bayview Yard in Baltimore in September 1975.
Photo Date:  9/13/1975  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 8:17:36 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BO 6614(GP9)
Views:  386   Comments: 0
B&OCTRR 8417
Title:  B&OCTRR 8417
Description:  This B&O Chicago Terminal Railroad EMD SW1 was far from home at its parents Riverside Engine Terminal in Baltimore in October 1975.
Photo Date:  10/11/1975  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 11:51:27 AM
Location:  Baltimore Riverside, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BOCT 8417(SW1)
Views:  450   Comments: 0
B&O 6593
Title:  B&O 6593
Description:  An EMD GP7 at Riverside Engine Terminal in October 1975.
Photo Date:  10/11/1975  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 8:08:11 PM
Location:  Baltimore Riverside, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6593(GP9)
Views:  356   Comments: 0
B&O 4054
Title:  B&O 4054
Description:  A blue EMD GP40 at Riverside Engine Terminal in Baltimore in October 1975.
Photo Date:  10/11/1975  Upload Date: 8/15/2013 5:42:26 PM
Location:  Baltimore Riverside, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4054(GP40)
Views:  331   Comments: 0
B&O 9102
Title:  B&O 9102
Description:  An ALCO S4 at Riverside Engine Terminal in Baltimore in October 1975. In the mid-1970s, a large number of ALCO switchers were in storage at Riverside. Some were used (occasionally) but most were waiting to be scrapped.
Photo Date:  10/11/1975  Upload Date: 8/15/2013 5:46:50 PM
Location:  Baltimore Riverside, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BO 9102(S4)
Views:  304   Comments: 0
B&O 6954
Title:  B&O 6954
Description:  An EMD GP30 is serviced at the Riverside Engine Terminal in Baltimore in October 1975.
Photo Date:  10/13/1975  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 3:02:03 PM
Location:  Baltimore Riverside, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6954(GP30)
Views:  550   Comments: 0
B&O 7418
Title:  B&O 7418
Description:  One of my favorite teen hangouts was the Lehigh Valleys ex-CNJ Bethlehem Engine Terminal. You never knew what you would find there and here are two B&O units in January 1976. They may be off NE84 (the pool train from Potomac Yard to New England) or they may just be running off miles on the Reading.
Photo Date:  1/3/1976  Upload Date: 8/15/2013 5:45:02 PM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 7418(SD35) BO 4049(GP40)
Views:  556   Comments: 0
B&O 6493
Title:  B&O 6493
Description:  An EMD GP9 in Philadelphia in February 1976.
Photo Date:  2/14/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 11:55:55 AM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 6493(GP9)
Views:  205   Comments: 0
B&O 9564
Title:  B&O 9564
Description:  An ex-Pere Marquette EMD NW2 at Bayview Yard in Baltimore, MD, February 1976.
Photo Date:  2/14/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 11:59:37 AM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 9564(NW2)
Views:  325   Comments: 0
B&O 6599
Title:  B&O 6599
Description:  An EMD GP9 at Bayview Yard in February 1976.
Photo Date:  2/14/1976  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 8:19:33 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BO 6599(GP18)
Views:  1693   Comments: 0
B&O 6908
Title:  B&O 6908
Description:  An EMD GP30 in Chessie System livery at Bayview Yard in Baltimore in February 1976.
Photo Date:  2/14/1976  Upload Date: 8/15/2013 5:54:23 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6908(GP30)
Views:  337   Comments: 0
B&O 7402
Title:  B&O 7402
Description:  One of the pool CNJ-RDG-B & O trains at Boundbrook, NJ, in February 1976.
Photo Date:  2/16/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 2:55:48 PM
Location:  Boundbrook, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 7402(SD35)
Views:  604   Comments: 0
B&O 4001
Title:  B&O 4001
Description:  An EMD GP40 heads a freight train in Philadelphia in February 1976.
Photo Date:  2/16/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 3:55:57 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 4001(GP40)
Views:  388   Comments: 0
B&O 6952
Title:  B&O 6952
Description:  A set of EMD units lead a New York bound freight in Philadelphia in March 1976.
Photo Date:  3/11/1976  Upload Date: 8/15/2013 5:56:02 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BO 6952(GP30)
Views:  300   Comments: 0
B&O 4130
Title:  B&O 4130
Description:  A then-new EMD GP40-2 in Chessie System livery, Philadelphia, March 1976.
Photo Date:  3/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 11:44:35 AM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 4130(GP40-2)
Views:  274   Comments: 0
B&O 4140
Title:  B&O 4140
Description:  An EMD GP40-2 in Chessie livery on the pool freight to New England at Bethlehem Engine Terminal in March 1976. Prior to Conrail, an assortment of Chessie, Reading and CNJ power worked the trains between Washington and Bethlehem and then LV locomotives worked through to Wilkes-Barre, where the Delaware & Hudson took over.
Photo Date:  3/20/1976  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 7:50:29 PM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BO 4140(GP40-2)
Views:  298   Comments: 0
B&O 3769
Title:  B&O 3769
Description:  An EMD GP40 at Bethlehem engine terminal a few weeks after the formation of Conrail in April 1976.
Photo Date:  4/10/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 9:40:22 PM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 3769(GP40) RDG 3656(GP35)
Views:  341   Comments: 0
B&O 9407
Title:  B&O 9407
Description:  This EMD SW900 was one of the many switchers that called Riverside engine terminal in Baltimore home in May 1976. Note the B & O capital dome logo on the front radiator cover.
Photo Date:  5/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 8:35:23 PM
Location:  Baltimore Riverside, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 9407(SW900)
Views:  411   Comments: 0
B&O 7413
Title:  B&O 7413
Description:  An EMD SD35 leads a freight through Cumberland in May 1976.
Photo Date:  5/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 9:32:31 PM
Location:  Cumberland, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 7413(SD35) BO 6943(GP30) BO 7417(SD35)
Views:  552   Comments: 0
B&O 6499
Title:  B&O 6499
Description:  Switching at Cumberland Yard in May 1976.
Photo Date:  5/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 9:35:07 PM
Location:  Cumberland, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BO 6499(GP9)
Views:  451   Comments: 0
B&O 6580
Title:  B&O 6580
Description:  Newly painted in Chessie livery at Cumberland, MD, in May 1976.
Photo Date:  5/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 9:37:38 PM
Location:  Cumberland, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BO 6580(GP9)
Views:  339   Comments: 0
B&O 3779
Title:  B&O 3779
Description:  A freight train at Camden Station, Baltimore, May 22, 1977.
Photo Date:  5/22/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 11:47:12 AM
Location:  Baltimore Camden Sta, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 3779(GP40)
Views:  310   Comments: 0
B&O 4024
Title:  B&O 4024
Description:  Two locomotives run around their freight train outside West Trenton, NJ, in August 1976. After Conrail, Chessie operated a limited number of through trains to New York over the old Reading-CNJ route.
Photo Date:  8/16/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 8:08:06 PM
Location:  West Trenton, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 4024(GP40)
Views:  467   Comments: 0
B&O 6471
Title:  B&O 6471
Description:  An EMD GP9 at the Western Marylands Port Covington Yard in Baltimore, December 1976.
Photo Date:  12/11/1976  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 7:40:55 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BO 6471(GP9)
Views:  485   Comments: 0
B&O 5615
Title:  B&O 5615
Description:  A B & O EMD GP7 in Chessie colors leads an eastbound freight train into the Howard Street Tunnel at Camden Station in Baltimore, MD, in December 1976.
Photo Date:  12/11/1976  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 7:52:44 PM
Location:  Baltimore Camden Sta, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 5615(GP7)
Views:  851   Comments: 0
B&O 5615
Title:  B&O 5615
Description:  A B&O EMD GP7 in Chessie colors leads an eastbound freight train into the Howard Street Tunnel at Camden Station in Baltimore, MD, in December 1976.
Photo Date:  12/11/1976  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 7:53:50 PM
Location:  Baltimore Camden Sta, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 5615(GP7)
Views:  261   Comments: 0
B&O 6437
Title:  B&O 6437
Description:  Working the Western Maryland yard at Port Covington, Baltimore, December 1976.
Photo Date:  12/18/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 9:30:31 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  398   Comments: 0
B&O 7592
Title:  B&O 7592
Description:  An EMD SD35 leads a westbound freight across the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry in April 1977.
Photo Date:  4/15/1977  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 8:12:07 PM
Location:  Harpers Ferry, WV
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 7592(SD40)
Views:  440   Comments: 0
B&O 9624
Title:  B&O 9624
Description:  An ex-C&O EMD TR4A in Baltimore on May 7, 1977.
Photo Date:  5/7/1977  Upload Date: 8/15/2013 7:06:14 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 9624(TR4A)
Views:  401   Comments: 0
B&O 6916
Title:  B&O 6916
Description:  An EMD GP30 in Philadelphia on May 14, 1977.
Photo Date:  5/14/1977  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 8:10:06 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 6916(GP30)
Views:  259   Comments: 0
B&O 9623
Title:  B&O 9623
Description:  These EMD TR4A (9622) and TR4B (9623) were ex-C&O units. They were helping on May 14, 1977, extract the Chessie Steam Special from Camden Station.
Photo Date:  5/14/1977  Upload Date: 8/15/2013 5:58:14 PM
Location:  Baltimore Camden Sta, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  BO 9623(TR4B) BO 9622(TR4A)
Views:  873   Comments: 0
B&O 9563
Title:  B&O 9563
Description:  An ex-C&O EMD NW2 being hauled dead in a freight train at Philadelphia on May 14, 1977.
Photo Date:  5/14/1977  Upload Date: 8/15/2013 6:57:31 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 9563(NW2)
Views:  252   Comments: 0
B&O 5981
Title:  B&O 5981
Description:  Photographed from the Chessie Steam Special in Baltimore on May 14, 1977.
Photo Date:  5/14/1977  Upload Date: 8/15/2013 7:14:43 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 5981(GP9)
Views:  326   Comments: 0
B&O 6606
Title:  B&O 6606
Description:  One of the passenger GP7s, likely on MARC service, at Washington in July 1977.
Photo Date:  7/13/1977  Upload Date: 8/15/2013 5:52:17 PM
Location:  Union Station, DC
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6606(GP9)
Views:  341   Comments: 0
B&O 6906
Title:  B&O 6906
Description:  An EMD GP30 on a local freight in Philadelphia in July 1977. This photo was taken from the upper-level suburban platforms at Thirtieth Street when they were much longer than they are today.
Photo Date:  7/14/1977  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 9:27:57 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 6906(GP30)
Views:  308   Comments: 0
B&O 4803
Title:  B&O 4803
Description:  One of my favorite places to take photos on the Baltimore & Ohio mainline as a teenager was Harpers Ferry, WV. I could reach there on an Amtrak train named the Blue Ridge and hang out for a few hours. Here an EMD GP38 roars westbound across the Potomac River in September 1977.
Photo Date:  9/10/1977  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 3:48:36 PM
Location:  Harpers Ferry, WV
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 4803(GP38)
Views:  483   Comments: 0
B&O 4005
Title:  B&O 4005
Description:  An EMD GP40 ahead an eastbound freight train at Harpers Ferry, WV, in September 1977.
Photo Date:  9/10/1977  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 3:57:42 PM
Location:  Harpers Ferry, WV
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 4005(GP40)
Views:  391   Comments: 0
B&O 4028
Title:  B&O 4028
Description:  An EMD GP40 ahead an eastbound freight train at Harpers Ferry, WV, in September 1977.
Photo Date:  9/10/1977  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 3:59:55 PM
Location:  Harpers Ferry, WV
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 4028(GP40)
Views:  307   Comments: 0
B&O 6455
Title:  B&O 6455
Description:  An EMD GP9 heads an eastbound freight at Harpers Ferry, WV, in September 1977.
Photo Date:  9/10/1977  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 4:02:01 PM
Location:  Harpers Ferry, WV
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 6455(GP9)
Views:  326   Comments: 1
B&O 7617
Title:  B&O 7617
Description:  An EMD SD40-2 on an eastbound freight at Harpers Ferry, WV, September 1977.
Photo Date:  9/10/1977  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 8:11:11 PM
Location:  Harpers Ferry, WV
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 7617(SD40-2)
Views:  420   Comments: 0
B&O 4130
Title:  B&O 4130
Description:  New EMD locomotives in the new Chessie System livery at East Side Yard in Philadelphia in November 1977.
Photo Date:  11/12/1977  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 11:53:40 AM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4130(GP40-2) BO 1977(GP40-2) BO 7617(SD40-2)
Views:  738   Comments: 0
B&O 9564
Title:  B&O 9564
Description:  The ex-Pere Marquette EMD NW2s with their extra striping were always a special find. Baltimore, November 1977.
Photo Date:  11/12/1977  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 7:42:45 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BO 9564(NW2)
Views:  351   Comments: 0
B&O 6953
Title:  B&O 6953
Description:  An EMD GP30 with a safety caboose descends to enter the Howard Street Tunnel near Camden Station in November 1977.
Photo Date:  11/12/1977  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 7:44:22 PM
Location:  Baltimore Camden Sta, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 6953(GP30)
Views:  1065   Comments: 0
B&O 51
Title:  B&O 51
Description:  One of the early passenger diesels, the EMD EAs once worked the Royal Blue Line trains between Washington and New York. Baltimore and Ohio Museum, Baltimore, November 1977.
Photo Date:  11/12/1977  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 7:46:26 PM
Location:  Baltimore B&O Museum, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 51(EA)
Views:  1619   Comments: 0
B&O 6498
Title:  B&O 6498
Description:  An EMD GP9 heads a westbound freight out of the Howard Street Tunnel by Camden Station, Baltimore, November 1977.
Photo Date:  11/12/1977  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 7:48:06 PM
Location:  Baltimore Camden Sta, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 6498(GP9) WM 6400(GP9)
Views:  692   Comments: 0
B&O 5089
Title:  B&O 5089
Description:  An ex-C&O EMD SW9 at East Side Yard in November 1977.
Photo Date:  11/12/1977  Upload Date: 8/15/2013 7:12:30 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BO 5089(SW9)
Views:  220   Comments: 0
B&O 3779
Title:  B&O 3779
Description:  An EMD GP40 at East Side Yard in Philadelphia in November 1977.
Photo Date:  11/15/1977  Upload Date: 8/15/2013 6:59:56 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 3779(GP40)
Views:  290   Comments: 0
B&O 9119
Title:  B&O 9119
Description:  An Alco S2 at work in Baltimore, MD, in December 1977.
Photo Date:  12/17/1977  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 8:22:06 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 9119(S2)
Views:  320   Comments: 0
B&O 4229
Title:  B&O 4229
Description:  An EMD GP40-2 in Chessie livery at Riverside engine terminal in Baltimore in December 1977.
Photo Date:  12/17/1977  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 8:29:30 PM
Location:  Baltimore Riverside, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6967(GP30)
Views:  316   Comments: 0
SIRT 9031
Title:  SIRT 9031
Description:  An ALCO S2 in storage at Riverside engine terminal in December 1977. The Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company was a subsidiary of the B & O that operated passenger and freight trains between Cranford, NJ, and Staten Island.
Photo Date:  12/17/1977  Upload Date: 8/13/2013 8:31:28 PM
Location:  Baltimore Riverside, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SIRT 9031(S2)
Views:  575   Comments: 0


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