Ben Sullivan's Model Railroad
The Georgetown Branch: Gallery: B&ORRHS Sorting Session

On 10/18/03 I spent the day sorting images at the Archives. I came across a few GB images which I'm posting here. Enjoy!
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Here we see passenger train #734, Engine #5141 w/ 3 cars heading West on the Metropolitain Branch, past Georgetown Junction (on the Right) in 1943.
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Here is the script on the back side of the print.
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In the above photo there are some details which are difficult to make out, so I am providing a closeup. In this image, the "Eastbound Siding with Boxcar" is essentially the Georgetown Branch. The Talbot Ave. Bridge is still there today. Someone rumoured it to be an old turntable bridge turned into a automobile bridge, but I don't know for sure if that's true. Some day I'll figure it out.
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May, 1948, exiting out of the West end of the tunnel, heading towards Georgetown. Just ahead is the crossing over the Washington Transit Glen Echo line and the sidings for the Washington Aqueduct. Then it's down the piedmont and into Georgetown. This may have been a steam special (excursion) - I'm not sure. Photo by Paul Westhaeffer
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Here is the reverse of the previous image.
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6/6/48 Engine # 4320 [the traditional Georgetown Local engine] is waiting in the "DC Freight Yard" on an "MSME Special" with 2 passenger cars and 4 cabeese. This was an excursion which went down the Georgetown Branch and back. I have a photocopy in my collection of this train on the branch down by the C&O canal with the same consist on the same date!

Here is another shot of # 4320 in 1948, elsewhere. She's a Baldwin 2-8-2 built in 1913, B&O Class Q1c
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Staten Island (B&O) Engine # 9030, an Alco S2, at Bethesda, MD, 2/68. I believe this is a Harold Buckley Jr. photo. The Alco is switching covered hoppers into the Maloney Concrete facility. (Thanks Matthew G. Vurek for the tip on the photo!)

Here is another shot of #9030 at work elsewhere. Originally SIRT 482-89, it's an Alco S2 built in 1944. These SIRT S2's had interesting paint jobs. The runnig boards/walkway was painted yellow all around the loco. It's hard to tell this in the B&W images, but here's a color one of 9030's sister, 9032
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The back side of the previous photo.

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