R&O Recycling Train also know as the R&O Freight Line was Rusty "Rob" McRail's train. He once had to stop the train at Shining Time Station because it has no place to go. It is pulled by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad articulated steam locomotive, possibly an H-6 class engine with a wheel configuration of 2-6-6-2.
This train was used to carry all of Indian Valley's garbage and the train took the garbage to the dumps. When all the dumps closed the train just keep on collecting more garbage until it reaches another dump to get rid of them.
After Becky read an article in the newspaper, everyone decided to turn Rusty's train into a Recycling Center and send it to a place to make it useful again and Mr. McRail decided to changed the name of his train to the "Recycle Express" cause of his new career of collecting things to the Recycling Center.
The locomotive that pulls the train is a Chesapeake & Ohio railroad 2-6-6-2 Chesapeake, these engines were built by Baldwin for the C&O railroads for long slow drag freights and coal trains in the mountainous terrains of West Virginia and Kentucky which it did from 1949. By the late 50's, they were retired from service, 8 were scrapped. While the 2 engines were maintained for preservation. They are numbers 1308 & 1309. C&O 1308 now resides in the 1401 Memorial Boulevard, Huntington, West Virginia, while 1309 is at the Western Maryland Railroad being operated.
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