From the official press release issue on November 8, 2024:

RJD America LLC Acquires Historic Chesapeake & Ohio 614 Steam Locomotive and Announces Comprehensive Restoration.
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Sitting quiet at the C&O railway museum in Clifton Forge, the Greenbrier Presidential Express locomotive 614 rust's away on display.

C&O 614 leads a Hoboken to Port Jervis excursion west through Secaucus, NJ. The train is approaching Harmon Cove station and would soon be crossing the Hackensack River at HX drawbridge. C&O 614... (more)

C&O Greenbrier 4-8-4 no. 614 smokes it up for fans on a photo rugby east of Youngstown, OH during a tour with the Chessie Safety Special. The engine led the special around the railroad in summer ... (more)

C&O 614 and C&O 5828 on display at the C&O Railway Heritage Center Museum in Clifton, Forge, Virginia.

The C&O's J3-a Greenbrier No. 614 on the partially-restored Erie RR turntable in Port Jervis. Built by Lima in 1948 with 27-1/2 X 30 inch cylinders, 72 inch drivers, and 255 psi boiler pressure; ... (more)

Night is falling at Hinton WV. We are cold, wet and tired but extremely happy. It's 1985 and we have been chasing a steam engine pulling a loaded coal train all day long in the snow! 614 has been ... (more)

Front Porch View

Some residents in Montgomery, West Virginia come to their porch to watch Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 and its tool cars roll past. I believe that the crew dropped t... (more)

Smoke and steam cloak Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 and its tool cars as it steams west through Cotton Hill, West Virginia with a train of West Virginia coal.

Skirting the frozen New River, Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 works westbound at Hawk’s Nest, West Virginia.

Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 disturbs the morning calm at Hawk’s Nest, West Virginia. Loaded coal hoppers trail back as far as the eye can see.

Before its later makeover, a somewhat neglected depot at Thurmond, West Virginia starts to shake as Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 thunders past.

Emissions from the stack of Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 trail back over its train loaded with West Virginia coal. The westbound train is negotiating the S-curve approaching Thurmond, West Virginia... (more)

Big Steam in Big Snow

American Coal Enterprises’ data collection of Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614’s performance occurred during most of the month of January, 1985. January in Wes... (more)

Tom Golden photo.