The Chesapeake and Ohio Class L2 were a Class of 4-6-4 Hudson Type steam locomotive built by Baldwin in 1941 for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
These engines were built for passenger service on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad.
By 1953, C&O passenger services were wholly dieselized, and there was no more work for these locomotives to do. Hudsons were very unsuited to freight work, with such a comparatively small proportion of their weight on the drivers. All the L2’s and L2a’s were quickly scrapped by 1953, and none of them survived Into preservation.
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