The Chessie Safety Express crosses the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry as it makes its way from Baltimore to Cumberland, Md., for a weekend of attacking 17 Mile Grade and Sand Patch Grade.
I set the way-back machine to 10-26-1996 and Rutherford, New Jersey. You are looking at the last commercially built passenger steam locomotive made in the USA. Outshopped by Lima Locomotive works ... (more)
The 614 is preparing to be turned after pulling the "Chessie Safety Express" into town from Cumberland, MD. The highlight of the trip was the climb up the B&O's legendary Seventeen Mile... (more)
The boys on the station platform are awed by the 614 as it heads east on the old B&O Metropolitan Subdivision. The unique Point of Rocks station, sometimes called the "B&O's church," is... (more)