The Georgetown Branch: Equipment Photos and descriptions of motive power and other equipment you might find on the Georgetown Branch. Also, a collection of links to images of similar locomotives, etc.

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 email me! I'm always looking for more info.

1890s - 1910 Horse drawn carts in Georgetown (?) 1910 - 1930s ? 1940's Q-3 2-8-2 Mikado Q-1c 2-8-2 Mikado (esp. #4320 blt. 1913, Baldwin Loco. Works) Q-4??? Alco S1 (esp. #223 & #254 blt. 1944, Alco.) 0-6-0 D7 (blt. 1901-1903) 0-6-0 D30 (blt. 1919) 1950's Alco S1 (esp. #222 blt. 1944, Alco. Here we see 222 in Georgetown doing some switching.). Alco S2 GP7 "FM Switchers" H10-44 H16-44 H12-44 RS-1 (Leased from Wash. Terminal Co.) VO-1000 1960's GP7 GP9 GP30 Alco S2 (esp. SIRT #9030, blt. 1944) 1970's ? 1980's EMD GP38 (esp. #3846 blt. 1967) John Bull (Smithsonian Institution: Ran from Aqueduct - Fletcher's Boathouse in 1981 for its 150th birthday.) 1990's ?

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