Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 Mallet Locomotives

by Karen Parker

In this 96-page soft-cover volume, Karen Parker describes C&O’s classes of 2-6-6-2 mallet steam locomotive draft horses. The 2-6-6-2 compound articulated "Mallet" type locomotive comprised the largest element of C&O's steam motive power fleet. Although initially used for mainline traffic, they were ultimately confined to branch line mine shifter operations up until the end of steam. The first came in 1910 and the last in 1949.