Boxcars: Below are two more Dean Heacock pictures.
The first is a rare 40' boxcar in Chessie colors. The second is the
typical Chessie 50' box car. This one carries the WM reporting marks.
The third picture is a C&O Railbox boxcar.
Covered Hoppers: Below are two pics of the type
of rib sided (Pullman Standard type) small hopper you may see today.
These pics were all taken this year by John Whitmore. Be on the lookout
for those cats, they are still out there.
The first pic is a John Whitmore pic of a C&O small PS style
covered hopper, also taken this year. The second is a large ACF type
hopper in the typical Chessie covered hopper scheme. The blue stripe
that runs along the bottom was left off on some of the repainted cars,
so you may see an all yellow one. This is a Dean Heacock pic.
Below are two more covered hoppers. The first is the small
ACF type that is so characteristic of Chessie. Chessie basically
owned everyone of these in the US. They were used regularly on the
East End for the Berkley Springs Industrial area. The second is a
more rare cylindrical hopper. Atlas makes a fantastic model of this
car. Both are Dean Heacock pics.
Hoppers: Below is a picture of a B&O
hopper. This pic was taken in Sep 2000, and is still in the predecessor
B&O paint! This car hasn't been painted in at least 28 years!
The original number was 64486 but when it went into Maintenance of Way
service (see the MW to the right of the number) CSX just renumbered it
by adding the "9". Note how bright white the "9" is compared to the
other markings. This picture was taken by me. The second pic
is of a Chessie 100 ton hopper with a "Hopper Topper" on it. These
yellow lids are very characteristic of Chessie. I have modeled 6
like these cars. Any Chessie model railroad needs some. The
second one is a Dean Heacock pic.
Below is a very typical Chessie covered hopper paint job. The
second pic is a "Moonshine" car. Called so, because of the "XXX"
on the sides. These cars are restricted in their service and can
not be interchanged with another railroad. I have modeled one and
need some more. They sure do break up the monotony of a string of
similar looking hoppers. These are both Dean's pics.
Coil Cars: Below is another Dean Heacock
pic. This is typical of a Chessie coil car. One hood is painted
yellow, one blue. One is rusty, one isn't. The car just off
the frame to the right is also a Chessie car, but the first hood is an
Illinois Central hood. Also the car on the left show the "C&O"
markings at the end of all Chessie hoods.
Reefers: Below is a pic of a Western Maryland Chessie
System Reefer. Notice the blue ends and yellow sides. This
one is another Dean Heacock pic.
Flat Cars: Below is another Dean pic. Here
a mini-crane is riding a typical Chessie flat car. This pic is good
since it shows that just about anything can ride on a flat car.
Auto Racks:
One shot says it all when it comes to Chessie auto racks.
They all basically look the same. This one is enclosed on the sides
but has no top. Some do have a roof. Notice the call letters
on this car are actually CTTX. The flat car portion is owned by CTTX
and the top is owned by B&O. The bottom is always yellow since
that is CTTX's color, but the top may be whatever the owner of the top
wants. Some other railroads paint theirs green, red, or blue, to
name a few.
TOFC: Below are two more of Dean's pics.
The first is a typical Chessie trailer. The Chessie lettered their
trailers with the letters B&OZ, C&OZ, and BOZ. These can
be seen over the Chessie logo. The predecessor roads also had their
own paint jobs. See my models of the C&O predeccessor paint scheme.
The second pic is how TOFC works. A flat car is pulled in and a crane
lifts the trailer onto it. Here a Chessie B&O switcher is moving
the cars. There are no TOFC facilities like this on the East End,
but the TOFC unit trains did pass over it daily.
Gondolas: Two more of Dean's pics.
The first is a B&O Railgon gondola. Much like the Railbox boxcars
the C&O bought. B&O bought some gondolas secondhand from
the Railgon. Actually C&O did too, and those look identical to
this pic. This scrap metal load is common for a gondola. The
normal Chessie B&O paint job for a gondola is shown on the second pic.
This gondola is actually carrying a hopper! I told you gondolas were
like dump trucks, they carry anything.
MofW: Below are two Dean Heacock pics of Maintenance
of Way cars. The first is a green C&O MofW box car. Green
is the color of most MofW equipment for Chessie. These cars are used
for all sorts of maintenance tasks around the system. The second
is a green Chessie flat car. MofW equipment either had a 900000 series
number, like the box car, or a "X" number like the flat car.
Below is another Dean pic. This is of the red B&O MofW
equipment. The B&O painted some of their equipment this color
before the advent of Chessie, and some of it was painted into unique red
and white Chessie schemes like this gondola. Notice it is stenciled
for wheel loading only. This mens wheels like those in the back left
of the picture are the only thing to go in this car.
Safety Cars: Below are two more of Dean's pics.
The first is a mobile Safety Center used to tranport the Safety message
to anyone on the system. Chessie took safety very seriously and the
green cross on the railroad tracks logo was seen everywhere. The
second pic is a smaller version of the traveling safety center.
Passenger Cars: Below are two more Dean pics.
These are of Chessie passenger cars. Chessie did not run any regular
passenger service. Amtrak did all passenger service. Chessie
had these cars left over from the days when the C&O, B&O, and WM
ran passengers. They were converted and used for track geometry and
executive transport. Demonstrated here are the two main schemes you
would see. I don't know alot about the Chessie passenger cars since
they are such an anomoly.
Misc: Here are two more Dean pics. They are
of Scale Test Cars. To charge someone for a load you need to know
how much it weighs. There are scales all over the system that weigh
cars as they run over them. There is one in Green Spring on the East
End. To test these scales for calibration Chessie runs one of these
cars over the scale and sees if the scale needs adjusting. The B&O
and WM had ones that look like the left pic, the C&O like the one on
the right. They both served the same purpose.
CSX Cars: Below is a pic of what you may see today. This
car has been renumbered into CSX letters, but still wears the Chessie cat
logo. This is very common, much more so then seeing them still in
their C&O or B&O lettering. I think all WM lettered cars
are gone now. It is a picture of mine and was taken in Nashville.
