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Viewing Album:  Chesapeake Beach Railway
 
By:Nick Jobe
Dates:3/7/1896 - 5/1/1936
Album Info:Photographs relating to the Chesapeake Beach Railway of Southern Maryland. Check out my website on this railroad! https://sites.google.com/view/va-rails/class-iii/the-chesapeake-beach-railway
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Chesapeake Beach Railway #1 idles with a passenger train at the District Line Station in Seat Pleasant, Maryland, on May 23, 1913.
Title:  Chesapeake Beach Railway #1 idles with a passenger train at the District Line Station in Seat Pleasant, Maryland, on May 23, 1913.
Description:  Built by the Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona Machine Shops in May of 1888 with construction number #1277, old #1 started life working for the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad as their #119. Identified as a class D-7a by the PRR's management, the locomotive was consolidated into the Pennsylvania Railroads official roster in 1903 after the company decided to merge several subsidiaries including the PW&B. Numbered #5119 while working on the Pennsy, the locomotive was only owned by the company for about four years until the engine was sold to the Chesapeake Beach Railway in July of 1907. After delivery to the Chesapeake Beach, the locomotive was repainted and repaired at the Seat Pleasant shops and given the name Teddy along with the number #1. My theory on why the locomotive received that name is that the president of the road at the time of the engines purchase, Otto Mears, was originally from Colorado and lived in and around the San Juan Mountains of Southern Colorado. Guess who was known as the hero of San Juan Hill? None other than the 26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt. (I know that San Juan Hill is in Cuba and the San Juan Mountains are in Colorado. Remember, just a theory.) Unfortunately, after the departure of Mears, the new management decided against continuing the tradition of naming locomotives, and so in about 1910, the name was removed with only the number (#1) remaining as shown in this 1913 photograph. Interestingly, even though the locomotive was purchased during the first decade of operation, the Chesapeake Beach had actually owned a previous locomotive numbered #1. This locomotive was inherited from the failed ventures of the Washington & Chesapeake Beach Railway which never actually ran a single train. Not much is known about this locomotive other than it was listed on the June 30, 1900, ICC Equipment Report. #1 served the railroad pulling passengers trains between the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Hyattsville, Maryland, station and the CB's own station in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, into the late teens and maybe even as late as 1924 until it was retired and scrapped. This photograph shows old #1 at the District Line Station in Seat Pleasant, Maryland, where the railroad interchanged passengers with the Washington Railway & Electric Company and the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railway. This allowed an individual to travel from Baltimore all the way to Chesapeake Beach and only have to walk a few steps. This interchange was possible until both the CB and WB&A quit in 1935 due to the increasing demand and support of the personal automobile.
Photo Date:  5/23/1913  Upload Date: 4/12/2020 6:31:50 PM
Location:  Seat Pleasant, MD
Author:  K. E. Schlatchler
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Station,Steam,Passenger,Track
Locomotives:  CB 1(4-4-0)
Views:  223   Comments: 1
Chesapeake Beach Railway #6
Title:  Chesapeake Beach Railway #6
Description:  Built by the Pittsburgh Locomotive & Car Works in March of 1893 with construction number #1414, #6 was originally constructed for use on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad as their #98 and was shipped by Pittsburgh on March 22, 1893. The locomotive served the P&LE for about a decade pulling ore and steel products faithfully throughout the rust belt until it was sold to the Chesapeake Beach Railway in 1905. The locomotive served on the railroad until about 1924 when it was sidelined and scrapped at the Seat Pleasant, Maryland, shops. This photograph shows #6 in a decrepit state in the deadline waiting to be scrapped in the yards of the Seat Pleasant, Maryland, shops.
Photo Date:  5/11/1924  Upload Date: 4/9/2020 2:00:57 AM
Location:  Seat Pleasant, MD
Author:  Joseph Lavelle
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Steam,Track
Locomotives:  CB 6(4-4-0)
Views:  421   Comments: 0
Chesapeake Beach Railway #3
Title:  Chesapeake Beach Railway #3
Description:  Built by the Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona Machine Shops in June of 1887 with construction number #1150, #3 was the oldest of the EX: Pennsy 4-4-0s purchased by the Chesapeake Beach Railway between 1907 and 1910. Like Old #1, #3 started life working on the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad as their #116. After the absorption of the PW&B into the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1903, the locomotive was renumbered #5116 and classified as a D-7a on the official PRR roster. With the arrival of new, more powerful locomotives in the early teens, Pennsy management agreed to sell #5116 to the Chesapeake Beach Railway and in July of 1910, the engine was official purchased by the CB. Surprisingly, this locomotive wasn't actually the first engine numbered #3 on the Chesapeake Beach roster. The 1st #3 was originally purchased new from the Pittsburgh Locomotive & Car Works but was transferred to the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railway and numbered #390. I use the word transferred because at that point in time, both the Chesapeake Beach and the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railway were owned by the same people. Specifically, the estate of David H. Moffat of Denver, Rio Grande & Western Railroad fame. By the early 1920's, #3 was starting to show some wear and tear and was parked in the deadline at the Seat Pleasant, Maryland, shops until it could be disposed. Finally in the mid 1920's, the locomotive was officially retired and scrapped. This photograph shows #3 in the deadline at the Seat Pleasant Shops shortly before the engine was scrapped.
Photo Date:  6/14/1925  Upload Date: 4/9/2020 2:25:13 AM
Location:  Seat Pleasant, MD
Author:  W. R. Hicks
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Steam,Track
Locomotives:  CB 3(4-4-0)
Views:  310   Comments: 0
Chesapeake Beach Railway #5
Title:  Chesapeake Beach Railway #5
Description:  Built by the Pittsburgh Locomotive & Car Works in May of 1899 with construction number #1953, big #5 was officially delivered to the Chesapeake Beach Railway on May 15, 1899. Labelled by both management and railfans alike as the fastest locomotive on the CB's roster, #5 would spend it's entire working career hauling speedy passenger trains on the Chesapeake Beach Railway's mainline until it was retired and scrapped in October of 1934 at the Seat Pleasant, Maryland, Shops. This photograph shows big #5 in all it's glory proudly sitting on the turntable located in the Seat Pleasant, Maryland, shops adjacent to the five stall roundhouse.
Photo Date:  8/9/1930  Upload Date: 4/12/2020 6:42:21 PM
Location:  Seat Pleasant, MD
Author:  Bruce D. Fales
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Steam,Track,Action
Locomotives:  CB 5(4-4-0)
Views:  893   Comments: 1
Chesapeake Beach Railway #10
Title:  Chesapeake Beach Railway #10
Description:  Built by the Burnham, Williams & Company subsidiary of the Baldwin Locomotive Works in April of 1901 with construction number #18879, #10 was constructed as part of an order of sixteen new 2-8-0 Consolidations from the Burnham, Williams & Company built between 1901 and 1903 for the Western Maryland Railroad. Classified as an H-4 by the Western Maryland, the locomotive was numbered #101 and was the class leader of the bunch. Due to the Western Maryland's system wide renumbering program in 1906, #101 was renumbered #401 along with all it's sister locomotives following suit. The locomotive worked on the Western Maryland Railway out of the company's Knobmont Yard in Maryland Junction, West Virginia. The locomotive served the Western Maryland faithfully until October of 1930 when the engine was sold to the Chesapeake Beach Railway along with sister engine #409. When delivered to the Chesapeake Beach, the engine was repainted and renumbered #10 along with sister #409 which became #9. The two locomotives main purpose for being purchased by the railroad was to haul materials for the construction of public roads throughout Charles County including Chesapeake Beach. This being said, this locomotive along with #9 indirectly caused the financial ruin of the line by creating a gateway for the company's biggest competitor; the personal automobile. With the highways built and the railroad in financial ruin, old #10 was supposed to be returned to the Western Maryland Railway like sister engine #9. This never happened and #10 met it's end in August of 1936 after the bankruptcy and abandonment of the line in 1935. This photograph shows locomotive #10 and presumably Baldwin 4-6-0 #7 parked in the deadline at the Seat Pleasant, Maryland, Shops in the mid 1930's. Date is an estimate. Photographer unknown.
Photo Date:  1/1/1934  Upload Date: 4/9/2020 2:17:54 AM
Location:  Seat Pleasant, MD
Author:  Unknown
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Steam,Track
Locomotives:  CB 10(2-8-0) CB 7(4-6-0)
Views:  386   Comments: 0
Chesapeake Beach Railway #7
Title:  Chesapeake Beach Railway #7
Description:  Built by the Burnham, Williams & Company subsidiary of the Baldwin Locomotive Works in January of 1891 with construction number #14683, #7 was originally owned by the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railway as their 2nd #14 and hauled passenger trains all across Virginia's Eastern Shore until 1916 when it was sold to the Southern Iron & Equipment Company locomotive re seller of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1916. Assigned inventory number #1037 while owned by the SI&E Company, the locomotive was sold to the Brooklyn Cooperage Company's Butler County Railroad as their #11 located in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, on July 14, 1916. However, the locomotive was returned to the SI&E Company later that year after being considered surplus power and was assigned inventory number #1039. On March 13, 1917, the locomotive was sold to the Chesapeake Beach Railway and numbered #7 and served on the railway hauling passenger trains until the bankruptcy of the line in 1935. It was actually still on the property when the East Washington Railway assumed freight operations on the line from Chesapeake Junction in Washington D.C. to Seat Pleasant, Maryland, in 1936. The engine was probably used as a parts engine and was finally scrapped in February of 1942. This Charles E. Winters photographs shows #7 sitting in the deadline at the Seat Pleasant, Maryland, shops on June 3, 1935. Note the date as being after the Chesapeake Beach when their final train in April of 1935.
Photo Date:  6/3/1935  Upload Date: 4/12/2020 6:20:39 PM
Location:  Seat Pleasant, MD
Author:  Charles E. Winters
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Steam,Passenger,Track
Locomotives:  CB 7(4-6-0)
Views:  213   Comments: 0

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