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Owner: Chesapeake & Ohio
Model:Alco 2-6-6-2Built As:CO 877 (2-6-6-2)
Serial Number:59840Order No:
Frame Number:23&35X32 cylinders, 57" driverBuilt:1/1919
Notes:Schenectady 01/1919 as 877, re# 1523 in 1924, class H-5, scrapped 11/1952
Other locos with this serial:  CO 1523(2-6-6-2)
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CO 2-6-6-2 #1523 - Chesapeake & Ohio
Title:  CO 2-6-6-2 #1523 - Chesapeake & Ohio
Description:  Captured by R. W. Legg as it sits with a head of steam in the Russell, KY, yard, this 1919 Alco-Schenectady locoomotive stands ready to drag long strings of coal cars. Specifics - H-5 - class, 56" drivers, 210 psi boiler pressure, 22x32" high pressure cylinders, 35x32" double low pressure cylinders, engine weight of 448,000 lb, tractive effort of 79,3363 lb.
Photo Date:  8/17/1953  Upload Date: 10/25/2015 10:50:58 AM
Location:  Russell, KY
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  CO 1523(2-6-6-2)
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