C&O 614 - Hoboken to Port Jervis - 10/19/97

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Chesapeake & Ohio J3a 4-8-4 614 pulls the 22-car "Erie Limited" from Hoboken NJ to Port Jervis NY and return.

October 19, 1997

My DVD of these trips is available now at:
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[typebangin]

Now available on DVD. See link above.

[bullfrog1954]

Is this the same 614 that powered the Chessie Safety Express in the early 1980s?

[typebangin]

@bullfrog1954 Yes, it is the same locomotive

[NJTCOMET]

@typebangin incorrect, that engine is EX Reading 2101, a T1, not C&O 614, 2101 is at The Steam Town National Historic Site on display but is currently undergoing asbestos removal. Reading 2102 used to be used by the BM&R on occasions from Temple to Hamburg, she still might be up in Temple somewhere, to bad that program shutdown :(

[typebangin]

@NJTCOMET No, 2101 was damaged in a roundhouse fire in Kenutcky in 1979 and never ran again. It was cosmetically restored as American Freedom Train #1 and traded for 614 which then ran in the early 80's on Chessie. 2101 is now at the B&O RR Museum in Baltimore MD. 2124 is the Reading T1 at Steamtown. 2102 is in Port Clinton PA and has not run since 1991 on the Reading and Northern. 2100, the last Reading T1, is in Washington state where it ran briefly after being badly converted to oil firing.

[parim31]

nice vid. just wondering how it is that u are able to chase this train down to most of its locations on the way to and from its trip? did you work with multiple cameramen and then edit the video together? thanks

[typebangin]

@parim31 I filmed it all myself. This was roughly a 200-mile roundtrip, so you could usually catch the train 3-4 times in each direction (especially with stops).

[TheShiftySkies]

Sounds like a deeper version of 765's whistle...

[koasterkidd]

@zz750211 sounds like an AT&SF 6 chime to me

[irelandbloke]

Great video

[MrCzechers]

@packr72 Thats only because Argentina does its military spending at the Army/Navy Surplus Store. lol

[packr72]

@MrCzechers well locomotives like the a4 mallard and a1 tornado are fine for the much smaller british railways, i mean let's face back in the day nobody moved more passengers faster than the many us railways, and of course even today no country moves as much freight as us railways do, well the brits can beat the argentians by themselves

[zz750211]

Other than N&W 611, that is the most beautiful whistle I've ever heard.

[MrCzechers]

@packr72 Thats one more thing the British can't do. The 1st, of course, is win a war by themselves.

[packr72]

@MrCzechers speaking of brittish loco's, the 614 would probally kick the mallard's ass in a race, and even if it didn't the 614 could haul a hell of alot more cars than the a4 class could ever dream of hauling, to bad that the northern types couldn't save steam from the onset of diesel electrics

[yallowrosa]

ottime le riprese in movimento

[PREZILLA2009]

What a beautiful train.