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Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 2755 is a
standard gauge A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), International gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge and European gauge in Europe, and SGR in Ea ...
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of the
2-8-4 Under the Whyte notation, a 2-8-4 is a steam locomotive that has two unpowered leading wheels, followed by eight coupled and powered driving wheels, and four trailing wheels. This locomotive type is most often referred to as a Berkshire, though ...
type, called "
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" by most US railroads, but " Kanawha" by the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O). It is one of a total of ninety built by ALCO (which built seventy) and Lima (which built the remaining twenty, including 2755) between 1943 and 1947. A Berkshire type was the first of the Lima Super Power locomotives in 1925 and these followed in that tradition, with all the latest equipment -- Schmidt
superheater A superheater is a device used to convert saturated steam or wet steam into superheated steam or dry steam. Superheated steam is used in steam turbines for electricity generation, steam engines, and in processes such as steam reforming. There ar ...
, Elesco feedwater heater, booster on the trailing truck, roller bearings, and so forth. They carried Baker valve gear, which the C&O preferred to the simpler and much more widely used Walschaerts valve gear. It spent its nine-year working life hauling coal on the various mine branches out of Logan, West Virginia, usually to the
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at Russell, Kentucky. Its last known run was from Handley, West Virginia, to Russell on January 18, 1956. After refurbishing at the
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, shops in the fall of 1960, it was delivered to its present location in Chief Logan State Park in March 1961. It was seriously vandalized in the late 1970s or early 1980s, with the glass broken and gauges stolen or destroyed. It has been repaired and fenced for protection. The Island Creek Model Railroad Club acts as curators. The locomotive was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 as Chesapeake and Ohio 2755 Steam Locomotive.


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{{National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia 2-8-4 locomotives 2755 Individual locomotives of the United States Lima locomotives Logan County, West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Logan County, West Virginia Railway locomotives introduced in 1947 Railway locomotives on the National Register of Historic Places Standard gauge locomotives of the United States Rail transportation on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Preserved steam locomotives of West Virginia