Description
The mixed freight train displayed at the entrance to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum (Baltimore, Maryland) consists of:
- B&O EMD GP40 diesel locomotive 3684
- B&O M-53A boxcar 385897
- B&O M-27F boxcar 382359
- Goodyear Chemical Division latex tank car UTLX 25155
- Pere Marquette Railway covered hopper car 20054
- B&O P-34 flatcar 9523 with trailer 200827
- and B&O I-17A bay window caboose C-2943
Good luck finding a short mixed freight train on a modern Class I railroad! Now the Class I lines mostly operate long unit trains, and it's up to the Class II and Class III regional railroads to keep running these kinds of freight trains.