After a seven year journey and thousands of hours of hard work from the Western Maryland Scenic Railway, C&O (Western Maryland) 1309 returns to life. 1309 is a 2-6-6-2 "Mallet" Class H6 steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1949 for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. 1309 served the mountainous rails of West Virginia hauling mainly coal until its retirement in 1956. It sat for nearly twenty years at the C&O's Peach Creek, WV roundhouse until being donated to the B&O Railroad Museum in 1975. Then, it rusted away in the elements until finally being sent to the WMSR in 2014 to be restored to operation. Today, 1309 breathes once more.
1309 being transported, July 2014: [ Ссылка ]
