Original Framed Baldwin Builders Photo - Chesapeake and Ohio C&O M-1 no. 500

Description

Thinning my personal collection, this is an original framed color builder's photo prepared for the Baldwin Locomotive Works following delivery of no. 500, the first of three class M-1 steam turbine locomotives to the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in 1947.
The artwork measures approximately 21 inches x 11 inches and originally assembled by the Crown Art Picture Frame Company, located at 144 North 10th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which was home to the Baldwin Locomotive Works.
The original materials were professionally refurbished by the previous owner approximately 10 years ago. A 1/8" square portion of the photograph has adhered to the glass. The backing paper is new, with the original framer's stamp preserved as shown in the listing photographs.
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History of the C&O steam turbines from Wikipedia:
In the waning years of steam Baldwin also undertook several attempts at alternative technologies to diesel power. In 1944 Baldwin outshopped an S2 class 6-8-6 steam turbine locomotive for the Pennsylvania Railroad.  Between 1947 and 1948 Baldwin built three coal-fired steam turbine-electric locomotives of a unique design, for passenger service on the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O), who numbered then 500 to 502 and classified them M-1. The 6,000 horsepower (4,500 kW) units, which were equipped with Westinghouse electrical systems and had a 2-C1+2-C1-B wheel arrangement, were 106 feet (32 m) long, making them the longest locomotives ever built for passenger service. The cab was mounted in the center, with a coal bunker ahead of it and a backwards-mounted boiler behind it (the tender only carried water). These locomotives were intended for a route from Washington, D.C. to Cincinnati, Ohio but could never travel the whole route without some sort of failure.  Coal dust and water frequently got into the traction motors. These problems could have been fixed given time, but it was obvious that these locomotives would always be expensive to maintain, and all three were scrapped in 1950.