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File:Washington and Old Dominion switcher at Riverside Yard, January 1969.jpg

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English: Washington & Old Dominion Railroad #57, a General Electric 70-ton diesel-electric switcher built in 1956 and, at left, the front end of W&OD #55, a Whitcomb 75-ton diesel-electric switcher rebuilt in 1950, in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Riverside Yard near Locust Point in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 19, 1969, after the W&OD Railroad closed in 1968.[1]
Date Taken on 19 January 1969
Source Washington & Old Dominion RR GE 95 Tonner 57 at B&O Riverside Yard, Baltimore, MD on January 19, 1969
Author Roger Puta

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  1. ↑ Locomotives described in Harwood, Herbert Hawley, Jr. (2000) Rails to the Blue Ridge: The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad, 1847–1968 (3rd ed.), Fairfax Station: Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority, p. 137 ISBN: 0615114539. OCLC: 44685168. At Google Books.

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