At a location generally thought of as being on Southern Railway’s main line, Chesapeake and Ohio 4-8-4 614 is actually on home rails, as the SR main from Alexandria to Orange is jointly operated b... (more)

On October 4, 1981, the Chessie Safety Express made a one-way ferry trip from Baltimore to Richmond. Here Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 leads the train over the B&O’s Thomas Viaduct in mornin... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 pulls the Chessie Safety Express over Big Gunpowder Falls at Gunpowder, Maryland.

Philadelphia bound, C&O 4-8-4 614 leads the Chessie Safety Express over the Thomas Viaduct at Relay, Maryland. The round trip, operated by the Baltimore Chapter of the NRHS, originated in S... (more)

We're looking out from an open-window coach, as the 614 makes a hard left at Viaduct Junction. It was a rocket-ride up the Potomac Valley that day.

The C&O's Class J3a "Greenbrier" No. 614 is pulling a westbound Hoboken-Port Jervis excursion in the fall of 1996. Moodna viaduct, the highest and longest railroad trestle east of the M... (more)

Having begun the return journey to Baltimore at Martinsburg, West Virginia, the eastbound Chessie Safety Express makes a station stop at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Some passengers rode t... (more)

The westbound Chessie Safety Express crosses the Potomac River as it slows for a station stop at Harpers ferry, West Virginia. Passengers were given the option of riding to Martinsburg or s... (more)

The Chessie Safety Express rolls west through Bartholows, Maryland. In about ten miles, the train will meet the Metropolitan Subdivision at Point of Rocks. Former B&O observation-buffet-lou... (more)

The Chessie Safety Express works its way west through Morgan, Maryland on the Baltimore & Ohio’s Old Main Line.

The calm solitude along the south branch of the Patapsco River is interrupted as a 4-8-4 storms west on the Baltimore & Ohio’s Old Main Line near Sykesville, Maryland. The train is a Chessie Sa... (more)

The Chessie Safety Express is on the first leg of its Baltimore – Harpers Ferry/Martinsburg trip at Lansdowne, Maryland. In about two miles, C&O 614 will be within sight of the Thomas Viadu... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio 614 leads an excursion over New Jersey Transit/Metro North at Moodna Viaduct. The extra smoke was put out for the benefit of two video companies shooting the crossing in dueling ... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 continues its assault of B&O’s Seventeen Mile Grade at Swanton, Maryland. This Chessie Safety Express excursion ran from Cumberland, Maryland to Terra Alta, Wes... (more)

Former Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 leads the Chessie Safety Express up B&O’s Seventeen Mile Grade at Bond, West Virginia. There was no better place to be to hear the stack talk.