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FROM steam to diesel-electrics overnight - that's the story in a nutshell of what took place down in Old Virginia on the Chesapeake Western Railway on Decem- ber 2, 1946. On that date the Chesapeake Western ended fifty years of transportation service with steam locomo- tives and completely dieselized its operations by placing in service the first of three Baldwin 660-hp diesel-electric locomotives, thereby retiring the six 4-8-0 type steam locomotives. Admittedly, these forty - year - old veterans |