Equipment

Over the years that the GB existed, many different types of motive power could be seen working the line. Especially in the latter years when motive power was a real potpourri coming out of Eckington Yard. What I've done here is try to outline some typical (and some unusual) classes/types of locomotives which you would see working the GB. I have culled most of this information from the Baltimore & Ohio RR Yahoo! Group and from Duane Carrell's sidebar to his article on the Georgetown Branch in the B&O Historical Society's quarterly magazine "The Sentinel", entitled "Motive Power". You can download the sidebar and read the news group postings on the Yahoo! site - see my Links page. If you have any corrections, additions, comments or donations to this page, PLEASE contact me! I'm always looking for more info.

1890s - 1910

• Horse drawn carts in Georgetown (?)
• Captive steam engines along waterfront trackage (?)

1910 - 1930s

• 0-6-0 D7 (blt. 1901-1903)
• 0-6-0 D30 (blt. 1919)
• Q-1c 2-8-2 Mikado (esp. #4320 blt. 1913, Baldwin Loco. Works)

1940s

• Q-3 2-8-2 Mikado
• Q-4 (?)
• Alco S1 (esp. #223 & #254 blt. 1944, Alco.)
• 0-6-0 D7 (blt. 1901-1903)
• 0-6-0 D30 (blt. 1919)

1950s

• Alco S1 (esp. #222 blt. 1944, Alco. Here we see 222 in Georgetown doing some switching.)
• Alco S2
• GP7
• Fairbanks-Morse Switchers
• H10-44
• H16-44
• H12-44
• RS-1 (Leased from Wash. Terminal Co.)
• VO-1000

1960s

• GP7
• GP9
• GP30
• Alco S2 (esp. SIRT #9030, blt. 1944)

1970s

• ?

1980s

• EMD GP38 (esp. #3846 blt. 1967)
• John Bull (reproduction)(Smithsonian Institution: Ran from Aqueduct - Fletcher's Boathouse in 1981 for the 150th birthday)