The Chesapeake & Ohio No. 614 Legacy
The Rise and Fall of an American Railroad Legend
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The Chesapeake & Ohio No. 614 Legacy
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Patrick Gleason
Built for speed and to conquer the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains, at the time of her arrival – and still to this day - she was the most technologically advanced and the last commercially built mainline passenger steam locomotive in the United States. This is the story and celebration of the 75-year legacy of Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad’s No. 614 ‘Greenbrier’ Class J-3a, 4-8-4 steam locomotive.
Her story has many suppositions the primary being: celebration, relegation, survival, patience, and multiple reincarnations. She would outlive and surpass all her original expectations and was given a new lease on life by her patron and caretaker some thirty years after her initial completion.
Throughout the last seven-plus decades she has been seen by thousands and inspired millions. She is, without doubt, the ‘last and greatest’ of her kind.
©2023 J. Daniel Jenkins (P)2023 J. Daniel Jenkins