Seen from the former Western Maryland Salisbury viaduct, the Chessie Safety Express rolls east down the Sand Patch grade near Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. The open farmland has given way to â€... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio 614 thunders through a downpour as it crests Sand Patch Grade in Pennsylvania with the Chessie Safety Express.

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)

Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 No. 614 pauses against the row of old buildings near the former Erie station in Port Jervis, N.Y. The locomotive turned here on a trip from Hoboken over NJ Transit.

Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 No. 614 storms up the hill out of Port Jervis, N.Y., on NJ Transit/Metro North.

Ross Rowland's C&O #614 sits on display dressed in a proposed "Greenbrier... (more)

The Greenbrier Express

Before heading back to New Jersey, we opted to stop in Clifton Forge, VA to see C&O 614, a locomotive which once regularly hauled excursions through New ... (more)

C&O 614 thunders north on the B&O Somerset branch after leaving the main line at Rockwood. This was a Cumberland, MD to Somerset, PA excursion sponsored by the Western Maryland Chapter of the NRHS... (more)

C&O 4-8-4 No. 614 was made by Lima Locomotive of Lima, Ohio in 1948 and was the last passenger steam locomotive commercially built in the USA. For three seasons in the late 1990's, it was the loco... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio 614 has turned and is back on its train as it gets ready to leave Terra Alta, W.Va., with the Chessie Safety Express. The trip originated in Cumberland, Md., and featured the lon... (more)

Interior view of greenbrier class locomotive 614.

Chessie System ran their Safety Express behind steamer 614 in the summer of 1981. This image was taken as it cruised along the B&O mainline between Youngstown and New Castle. The Pittsburgh and La... (more)