From the official press release issue on November 8, 2024: RJD America LLC Acquires Historic Chesapeake & Ohio 614 Steam Locomotive and Announces Comprehensive Restoration. ... (more)
Looking Out From The Cab. While the JD Tower building itself is a modern edifice at the Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Society in Clifton Forge, VA, former C&O EMD SD40 7534 (CSX 4617, CSX ... (more)
The View From "JD Tower". While the JD Tower building itself is a modern edifice at the Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Society in Clifton Forge, VA, former C&O EMD SD40 7534 (CSX 4617, CSX ... (more)
Chessie, C&O GP40 4067 leads eastbound R396 on the ex-B&O Keystone sub. The train passes under the ex-P&WV trestle over the Youghiogheny River at, Banning, Pennsylvania. November 11, 1987. Jack D... (more)
Nickle Plate 765 disguised as C&O 2765, 2-8-4 Berkshire is being readied by the crew for its return trip to Ohio at Hazelwood, Pennsylvania. September 5, 1993. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
CSX, Cumberland, MD. shops C&O 4291, CSX 4246 - 6524 - C&O 8413 - 9565, Cumberland, Maryland. July 2, 1989. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
General Motors Electro-Motive Division built only 21 GP39 locomotives, with 20 of them going to the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. (The only other was built for Florida's Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Ra... (more)
It's early in the CSX era and the paint scheme butchers haven't got to the first unit with their spray cans and brushes. And BTW that's a locomotive washer in the background. A decent "rain... (more)
Chessie, C&O SD50 8626 - 8633, at the ex-B&O yard at Connellsville, Pennsylvania. December 12, 1985. Jack D Kuiphoff video © photo
C&O 4-8-4 Greenbrier 614T with fifty loaded coal hoppers on a run from Huntington, to Hinton WV. It was on steam powered testing for one month in January 1985. 614T has stopped at Charleston, West... (more)
C&O 614T, 4-8-4 Greenbrier, running test for the ACE program, hauling coal on the C&O between Huntington, and Hinton WV at Cabin Creek, West Virginia. January 10, 1985. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©
Chessie C&O GP40 4279- SD40 8053, with eastbound R396 on the B&O Keystone sub about to change crews, Connellsville, Pennsylvania. October 14, 1987. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
C&O Greenbrier 4-8-4 614T "T" for test. Pulling coal trains for a month in January 1985 seen here at Pratt, West Virginia. November 11, 1985. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©
#1309 spent several weeks in 2023 dressed in C&O, making quite a scene all across the WMSR.
Chessie, C&O GP30 4207- CSXT SD40 8251 exit the tunnel westbound at the crest of Sand Patch grade on the ex-B&O Keystone sub. Sand Patch, Pennsylvania. June 14, 1990. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©
