#50 B&O

Baltimore & Ohio #50

First non-articulated passenger diesel

AAR B-B, 1,800 hp, two Model 201-A Winton diesel engines

Built - October 1935 sn 532 by Locomotive Electro-Motive Corporation

(later renamed Electro-Motive Division, General Motors)

Built at GE's Erie, Pennsylvania works

Has control cabs at both ends

From 1935 it hauled the first Diesel-powered Royal Blue until 1937.

After retirment from the B&O Royal Blue in 1937 it had a semi-streamlined "shovel nose" applied to one end, and transferred to the B&O-owned Chicago and Alton Railroad to haul the Abraham Lincoln.

When the Alton left B&O control in the merger that created the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, #50 entered the GM&O roster as #1200. After World War II, the shovel-nose treatment was removed, restoring the unit to its prior boxcab appearance.

Was run by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as #50, Chicago and Alton Railroad as #50, Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad as #1200

The locomotive was placed into local freight service until it was retired, upon which it was donated to MOT