Chessie Safety Express 2101....WORKIN HARD!!!!
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Listen to good ole 2101 workin like hell to pull her train. She's workin hard and man, that stack is lettin everyone know about it.
Clip from "Chessie Safety Express/Coal Train with C&O 614" from Mark I Video.
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That's some mighty fine stack talking she's doing.
JCBro2014 that's why a Reading T1 should be recognized more.😉🙂
He recovered from that wheel slip like a boss! No computer assistance there!!
He is the boss.
@Cyclist051 Ross Rowland was the engineer here, and his expertise in steam shows. The 2101 was pulling 16 cars up Sand Patch Grade in this video. A few years after this was shot, Ross pulled 26 cars up the same grade with the C&O 614. I was told he didn't even slip the wheels once. The man is an incredible steam engineer.
I've listened to this clip many times. I still find myself in awe as I see this great engine work its way up the grade. Awesome! My hat goes off to the frugal Reading RR management and Baldwin Locomotive Works engineers who created the great Reading T-1 4-8-4 locomotives. They had their act together.
One of the loudest and strongest locomotives I’ve ever seen!
Boff boff boff boff boff boff boff boff boff boff boff boff! LOVE IT!
The sound of WORK being done.
My grandfather was a train engineer for B&O, Chessie, and Amtrack. He got to drive this train sometime between 77 and 78. I was only 3 then, but still remember the train stopping in Connelsville and all the people coming out to see it and talk to my grandfather. Never will forget the smell or sounds. Miss ya grandpa.
I JUST HAVE TWO WORDS TO SAY ABOUT THIS OLD LOCOMOTIVE...."BAD ASS"
Bad ass indeed!
Why do you boys say that?
I've never been one to turn up the volume real loud, but if anything ever makes me deaf, it's going to be this clip. I can't resist cranking up the sound. :)
The slipping drivers and hard thrust of the engine send chills up my spine! I was there but didn't capture it like this!
I might use this on New Years to wake up all of my neighbors, so it will sound like a steam locomotive storming through the neighborhood!
That is the most impressive stalk talk I've ever heard. Man do I miss ole' 2101
piece of a bygone era.Excellent
Never let it be said that a Reading T-1 doesn't have heart. This was Sandpatch on the B&O between Cumberland and Pittsburgh. Parts of that grade were 1.5%. The train was 24 cars (the power car behind the second tender was in the consist only on ferry trips).
Stephen Wickersham hello Steve Tom Dwyer
2% at the top. The line to Pittsburgh gains over 1,600 feet in elevation after leaving Cumberland, MD in spite of taking the "easy way" by following streams and rivers.
Big wheels keep on turnin', proud Chessie keeps on burnin'... rollin'... rollin'... rollin' up the railroad...
The steamer here is former Reading & Northern T1 2101, which is on static display at a B&O museum today
Man I wish I could've been here back then to see this shot. Absolutely thunderous and beautiful.
I know what this Engineer is going through, Unlike the Diesels stalling out up grades Steamers loose traction, that's why it's important to make sure the sand dome is full of sand and this is where the Steamers will leave a Diesel Locomotive behind going up grades. 1946 to 1954 I use to throttle jerk Baldwin Steamers for Santa Fe Railway thru Cajon Pass.
Class act locomotive, god damn she's a beauty!
Hopewell Productions made the best video of the 2101!!!
BEAST MODE
Thank you for sharing - a spectacle of sight and power. While I prefer the 614, this engine was truly mangnificent!
Wow BEAUTIFUL AND elegance
I've ridden the Chessie Steam Specials back in the late 70's, awesome trips, wish I had video then.
Gr8 stack talk! You can really hear her coming!
This was truly rolling coal.
Giving it Hell.
I turned up the subwoofer for this one. It is rightous.
STRUT UR STUFF 2101! STRUT UR STUFF!!
Thank you Steve Wickersham and Ross Rowland-- you guys made this all happen!
GOD, I love that sound., Thanks for posting this!
Best stack talk video I've ever seen. Awesome. Favorite and 5 stars.
Magnificent!
Wonderful stack-talk!
It appears to be the old B&O line in the mountains east of Pittsburgh, PA. I've seen that exact location hundreds of times in railfan books over the years. It is a steep 20 mile long grade up to the summit.
2102 is in the best hands it could possibly be right now.
i love this train!!!
the unsung hero of this clip is the fireman, hats off him, Ross is got giving it everything 614's got, and the fireman still manages to keep her at a full head of steam, thus the pop valve going off towards the end
Jed844 that's not a good day for a fireman, he's dangerously close to working water into the pistons. I've had it happen on a smaller 2-8-0 as fireman, going up a steep grade and I was carrying high water and a hot fire. When the valve lifted, it started the water foaming and was puking gouts of steam and water up into the sky and into the dry pipe. Told the green engineer to stop the train, and he refused, not understanding what was happening- the safety valve wasn't reseating and we were losing all our water into the sky. I told him I was killing the fire and he'd best stop the train if he didn't want to be replacing tubes and tube sheet. He stopped.
The Chessie steam special put on a grand show with 2101 on the headend. She had a great rebuild prior to the 1978 season. A soft bound book called the revival of 2101 covers this at great detail. Chessie did offer to rebuild 2101 or provide one from the museum ( 614 ). The question was not only about the boiler tensile strength but if the frame warped. Some thought because paint on the drivers show no sign of blistering that the running gear and frame were ok. Saw her first as AFT 1. Awesome!
Wow what a gorgous steam NG, I dident know that this one was around. God bless the people who save these amazing mamath machines.
Reading T1s were surely hard workers
so were the people who you didnt credit in alot of your videos
N&W Productions wow lol really?
@@MP339RV Clearly no one reads the end credits in videos these days -__- also why reply to a 4 year old comment crying about something totally unrelated to the video or the comment? Also why copy another user's username?
@@LIMowersAndMore Not really. Apparently kids these days and even most adults don't watch end credits to videos nor movies. I don't get why though. Sure its just boring text on a screen but it's better than constantly asking "Oh what song is that you used at (time stamp)" I mean I'm not trying to be rude but the end credits do exist for the reason that is clearly obvious
Thunderbolt 1000 Siren Productions posers man.
UP844 and SP4449 could never do this without diesel! Hehehe
Listen to that stack shoutin! This is just perfect!
Ladies and Gentlemen:
REAL American power on display.
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!!!!!
I was 3 when this came through Pittsburgh... I can still remember it. Instead of a solid image, it's like a faded black and white with rounded edges.
i think i can, i think i can, i think i can, i knew i could!
Great video of the struggle of getting up Sand Patch Grade in SW Pennsylvania. It should be noted that the 2101 paid a severe price of pulling excursions up the various old B&O grades. It simply was not designed for grades this steep and long, and by the end of the Chessie Steam Special trips, the 2101 suffered horrendous damage to its boiler and frame. Even if it was not destroyed in the roundhouse fire, the decision was already made to retire it and replace it with another engine. You can see how hard the locomotive is being stressed at 0:55 ! It blows the safety valve because the boiler is being maxed out. There is still a 3 mile climb get to the summit, and the grade actually gets steeper right up the summit. At this point, the 2101 has been climbing upgrade for 31 miles on the Allegheny Front since leaving Cumberland, MD and crossing into PA.
I could just imagine Jeremy Clarkson in the cab yelling SPEED AND POWER!
It's like someone is shooting off a row of canons rhythmically. Stunning!
The Mighty T1 was working hard upgrade to the summit.
stunning! just unbelievable, the power ...
Rode her with the native "Reading" early to mid 70's
I hope someone with enough money would restore 2101 to operational condition again
There is a group trying to restore the 2100, close enough.
Supposedly the damage to 2101 after the Kentucky Roundhouse fire in 1979 was mostly cosmetic, but it was severe enough to warrant an overhaul and Ross decided to swap 2101 for a different locomotive instead.
JCBro2014 yep, he swapped it for c&0 614. jackmp 245 just posted a video from 1980. sounds and all!
Listen to that stack talk!
Finally! An American steam video that is not ruined by excessive whistling.
Have you seen those recordings by O Winston Link?
The paint scheme on this train is spectacular and Reading 2101 delivered an impressive performance right here, it's a shame that 2101 had a very brief excursion service career from 1975-1978 as steam excursions are very popular. The Chessie Steam Special excursions operated during 1977-78 and locomotive 2101 hauled these trips, 2101 was damaged in a roundhouse fire in 1979 but thankfully was preserved at the B&O railroad museum where it is currently on public display.
Gorgeous...thanks for posting.
People... We have to do the impossible... Restore 2101, so that we may hear such powerful chuffing noises from her smoke stack like this... With tons of money, voulenteers and a lot of time, we can do it!
your exactly right man I love that engine plus if I make a rail road it would be my prime freight hauler
2100 or 2102 would be much easier my friend. 2100 needs a good home, if you got the cash go get her, fix any firebox damage and other issues.....you would have a running t-1 for much less money. you might need track to run on :)
jay600katana ahhh hahahaaahaaa, Funny you should mention a t1 they are planning to build one from scratch a PRR T1 they say it could take 10-20 years unless the funding comes in right away and they can get a crew working on her constant.
I am not kidding you look up the PRR T1 trust page, they only thing they have right now is the numberplate cast but some people are serious, they want to make a new steamer to keep steam alive well into the future, and as an experament to put all the rumors to rest from once, and try to make it viable without all the wheelslip with better devices to prevent the violent wheelslip like they used to use on the PRR
Hey magna12, did you know I really don't care about that Pennsylvania T1 project? I actually kinda dislike the PRR for the following reasons.
1: TOO many conventional steam locomotives. Not a single Berkshire, Hudson, Northern or articulated locomotive designed by them.
2: When they finally got into Super-Power locomotives, they took the design from the C&O Texas type and bought some N&W 2-8-8-2's Mallets.
3: Scrapping all their Texas type locomotives, probably because they weren't PRR original designs.
4: Most of the Duplex locomotives were pretty unsuccesful.
So in my eyes, building a brand new Duplex drive steam locomotive seems like a waste of time and money. Why not build a brand new steam engine from a differnt design that was also extinct, like the original UP Challengers from 1936? www.northeast.railfan.net/images/up3901a.jpg
***** I was just telling jay600 that its funny he or she would mention it, that a t1 is being built
Bar in the corner, reg on the roof, safety blowing and the stacks going *THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP*
This is just awesome.
Reading T1s were rebuilds from smaller 2-8-0 locomotives, so they weren't exactly handsome, BUT they did work very well.
The 2101 was heavily damaged in a roundhouse fire. CSX swapped the C&O 614 out of the B&O Museum, and put the cosmetically restored 2101 on display in its place. I believe most of the cars seen here (along with additional cars) were used during the 614 trips on CSX.
Cant believe he didn't stall especially on those curves. Great engineer
@IIIJFRIII The 2101 is still around but not operational. It was heavily damaged in a roundhouse fire back in the late 1970's, and was cosmetically restored and is on display at the B&O Museum in Baltimore. CSX swapped the 2101 with the more powerful C&O 614 that was on display so Ross Rowland could continue running steam excursions on CSX back in the 1980's.
oh my god this vid is so awsome, i just wish more vids could be like this, the awsome thump of the steam pistons pushing, the thick black smoke billowing out of the exhaust, and no diesel to mess up the overall look of the engine, i wish i couls have been there, it would have been oh so awsome
WOAH! GIANT PUFFING! AMAZING! 😨😃
Magnificent, bravo!!!
i remember watching that engine run infront of my house twice a day running coal trains to the power plant in the 80's
Megabyteme325 That was C&O 614. Same guy at the throttle though. Ross Rowland.
Josh my mistake. i did one of the excursion runs when i was little and got a cinder in the eye when they let you off the train to get pictures of it going by the crowd. the people that had houses right near the tracks in St . Albans hated that engine. it would rattle there houses like crazy. i will have to take my kids out west i guess to experience big steam.
Megabyteme325 You got N&W 611 and NKP 765 out here on the east coast. And the 611 is even more powerful than the 614 or 2101. Most powerful class of 4-8-4 ever produced actually. The only issue is Norfolk Southern limits her to 40mph cause of the Great Dismal swamp accident.
Lol, I got a cinder, multiple cinders actually, in the eye story too. When I road behind the 611 when I was 4 or 5 I stuck my head out of the concessions and merchandise car without goggles and got a face full of em.
Josh lol i will look them up. my boys love trains but steam fascinates them. thanks for the heads up.
when the Big Boy comes back that will be a trip that will need to be done.
I think that stack talk is mostly heard on reading t1s.
It's sad knowing it's rusting away in Baltimore. They should either repaint it and put it next to the 202 in Hagerstown or run it again!
The booster isn't even cut in; the 01 still has power to spare.
This particular show is called Chessie Safety Express/Coal Train with C&O 614 from a video production company called Mark 1 video...I've seen this one on RFD-TV
That's railroading right there!
Oh damn....wow
Actually, the B&O (who was a major chunk of Chessie System and later CSX) owned controlling interest in the Reading Railroad from 1901 up to the creation of Conrail. So there are historical ties to this locomotive and Chessie's use of it for excursion service.
Love it!
it's a maxing what stack talk can come from a couple percent and a 4-8-4 with a heavy train
FINALLY! A clip of a steamer breakin' her back up a grade-- without the unneccessary whistling!
Even a deaf person looking the other way could tell it's coming.
I love the echo it makes in the so rounding hills.
Yes!
This is the CHESSIE STEAM SPECIAL. C&O 614 was the Chessie Safety Express.
Power!
Nice work ross
@manga12 No Texas and Pacific 610 a 2-10-4 Texas type locomotive pulled the train through Texas. You need to reread it. It even shows a picture of the 610 next to the blurb in the time line. Completely different locomotive. In 1976 the 614 was moved to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum for display and did not leave until 1979 AFTER the roundhouse fire that damaged 2101. The 614 did not run until 1980.
@Barricade360 She is preserved at the B&O museum.
She fought her battle, and she won! RAILROADING!
what a bark, nothing beats steam
Way to go darktalon, I'm glad someone here knows what they're talking about
That old gen doesn't need any help. She's doing what she was built to do!!!
I hope one day someone will have enough courage to restor her or at least take an attempt at it if after the adaquate tests are ran to make sure she can have the boiler rebuilt that was damaged, as for this she is pounding up the rails, and sure sounds like a pounding sound and not a puffing, shear furious hauling.
RIP.
Now take a look: she's still poppin' so she's not under boilered; the Feed Water Heater vent is putting out about the same as the pop valve and she's un-assisted the whole way!!
what i love about steam...it never "misses"....a slip aint a miss....
0:04 that was cool how it just went off..
For headphones only! ;-)
Great stack talk - just don't want to disturb the neighbors...
Yes, this is the Reading T-1 #2101, not the C&O 614.
to the untrained eye, id say that driver sure can handle a train
Yes, this is the Chessie Steam Special which celebrated the 150th anniversary of the B&O and was pulled by the T-1 2101 later destroyed in a roundhouse fire in the early 1980s. The Chessie Safety Express was pulled by the 614.
Its wheels slip a few times between 0:04 and 0:16, but otherwise GREAT SOUND and great vid!
That noise...
"Oogahchakka!!!! Oogahchakka!!!! Oogachaka!!! Oogahchakka!!!!!" Talk about power he was making the earth shake!💪🏾💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨
@doodlejtr And the fireman was on his toes as well. Here she is, working hard up hill and at 0.55 we see one of the pop valves go off. This old girl IS producing copious amounts of steam. Great stuff.