Massive Steam Locomotive C&O 1309 Returns to Life! | Western Maryland Scenic Railway
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- After a seven year journey and thousands of hours of hard work from the Western Maryland Scenic Railway, C&O (Western Maryland) 1309 returns to life. 1309 is a 2-6-6-2 "Mallet" Class H6 steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1949 for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. 1309 served the mountainous rails of West Virginia hauling mainly coal until its retirement in 1956. It sat for nearly twenty years at the C&O's Peach Creek, WV roundhouse until being donated to the B&O Railroad Museum in 1975. Then, it rusted away in the elements until finally being sent to the WMSR in 2014 to be restored to operation. Today, 1309 breathes once more.
1309 being transported, July 2014: • C&O 1309 Move From Bal...
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Nearly every other comment on this video is about the diesels, so I’ll address that now.
The two diesels are NOT on the end of the train because 1309 is “too weak” or “has issues”. Like all newly restored things, it’s subject to failure at any given moment due to the fact that it just simply hasn’t been thoroughly tested over a long period of time. However, this still isn’t the only reason. The diesels provide dynamic braking for the train, which takes power from the engine and inverts it to reduce speed. Dynamic braking greatly reduces wear and tear on the train’s air brakes. Another reason is that there was no way to turn the train around on its designated Polar Express route. Therefore there needed to be at least one locomotive on the rear for visibility when heading back to Cumberland.
Also, 1309 is not being “dragged around”. Only when the diesels are leading are they providing power.
I don’t think those two diesels could even push the whole train with 1309 attached up the hill. 501, the stronger of the two, struggled to bring 1309 and a 3 car consist home after a test run to Helmstetter’s, hence the need to tie on 450 aswell.
@Crossbuck Productions I'd pin this comment so it'd be easier to find since there are bound to be new comments. Also, that's what I meant to say since 1309 is still freshly restored (at the time). I wasn't sure how to say it, but apparently didn't know it wasn't "issues", but rather subject to failure.
@@09JDCTrainMan It was pinned, not sure how it ended up not.
Is that just a tourist line or do freights run on that too?
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist yes, yes to both.
Such a great narrative video and great shots! She's the 4014 of the East! Ironic how you made the video 13 minutes and 9 seconds.
You stole my comment about 1309 being the Northeast’s big boy! Lol
@@MrAwesomedude808 LOL, didn't even know. I hope you have a great day whoever you are 😂
We should not be be burning fossil fuels and look at all that smoke causing carbon emissions and particulate air pollution. This leads to respiratory disease and global warming climate change. Florida will be 2m under water.
The locomotive should be cut for scrap or retired to a museum in a non operational state.
@@PreservationEnthusiast gona cry?
Are you forgetting about 1218 it's. 2 6 6 4 known as the a class. By the n and w
It’s so wonderful to see these beautiful beasts being bought back to life. Thanks for sharing
Fantastic video 👍🚂
Love the way he works that hooter. Sounds like old Norfolk Western days back in the 50’s.
yes it sounds like n&w 1218 engine, i wish they would get the 1218 running again.
@@leepenlack5548 at least you have 1309 as a compensation.
>; )
I can't believe i am now legally verified and allowed to say this.
Its good to see this true "Beast from the East" in running order. Kudos to the team at Western Maryland Scenic!
It’s a beautiful steam engine. Congratulations to all that helped in the restoration. Thanks for sharing this video. Very well done. Love the train whistle….
That locomotive is so powerful, I feel like the engineer only needs to lightly tug on the throttle to get it up to the desired speed
@Poly Bun johnson bar?
The connecting rod?
She is truly the 4014 of the east. Now to see her in person
Said this yesterday when I saw it
I thought i was 😔
I mean yeah but 1309 is operational.
@@railfan6116 yeah but i can still be moved around :)
@@NW-gi1cp NS backstabbed you so long ago...
Gotta hand it to you guy's in the U.S.A for bringing the big guns back to life - great to see!
I love that the video itself is 13:09 long. Well played, well played! Awesome video!!
Wow! Congratulations to those who got the locomotive back up and running.
That Steam whistle…… wow just wow!!! It’s haunting 👏👏👏
What a great whistle! The engineer was playing it like a virtuoso.
Yeah, I wonder if the engineer is a relative of the one, on WWOT, or JT's CSX video's who plays a "Johnny One Note" version of "Jingle Bells", on his Diesel horns ?
Great to see this engine restored and running at the WMSR.
She's a big one all right!
Kudos to the Restoration team!!!
I'm a train and I approve this video! !!
Thanks so much for bringing back far-gone memories of sight and sound! Sure wish I could have been on that train but I can say that it was a distant memory of riding on a steam locomotive pulled train in my youth! Also, a fantastic stereo presentation for all to enjoy!
What a beautiful I believe single expansion locomotive a nice restoration Bill
Compound
Wow, another large articulated steam locomotive, and this locomotive burns coal for fuel. That must be because it is back east in the state of Maryland. In other states it would have converted to fuel oil during restoration.
2100 is converted back to coal. 2102 and BM&R 425 are coal burners.
This is just so darned cool. Beautiful job guys. And it is a coal burner.
I noticed that too, great to see on a restored steam locomotive...but I wonder at the same time how they managed to pull that off when coal is seen as dirty and unacceptable these days...also I wonder how they manage to keep her fueled when coal is not as easily available as oil.
She is beautiful. That lonely hooter whistle.
Awesome video!
She looks gorgeous in those Fireball colors. Wild Mary forever!
God I still remember from years ago them restoring this engine, from when the accident occurred with that railroad crossing. And now this!
The WMSR did a pretty damn awesome job restoring this beautiful piece of machinery!
I bet she’s gonna have a quite similar story to Cotton Belt 819, only a few years in revenue service, and many more years in preservation life!
I’d love to see this engine some day!
Cool!
Beautiful! All of those Christmas lights made the 1309 the perfect Christmas gift for steam locomotive fans!
This is very historic!
Steam trains have a soul. There is in James Herriott's memoirs a story of a horse that whenever a steam train appeared would stop and watch it. Then diesel was introduced. The horse took one look, and turned its rump to it. Horse sense, man, horse sense!
Well that's the thing...
They're freaking magical, man...
2021 must be a dream for Steam Engine fans
Love that hooter! Quality power.
Anybody notice the time is 13:09? clever
Me
Thanks for the heads up I will definitely be going for a ride on this beast
people who went to the train section at the henry ford museum: 😮now that's a train I haven't seen in a looong time. (it's not the same locomotive but it's the same type)
This isn't the same class as the train at the Ford Museum which is an 2-6-6-6 H8 Allegheny, this one is a 2-6-6-2 H4 Mallet, a smaller locomotive. The allegheny is roughly 300,000lbs heavier and has a higher tractive effort.
@@SweetLou0523 still a big damn ol' gal.
I rode the Western Maryland Railroad 20+ years ago. I still remember it fondly.
5:13 lol that biker
Dude needs a go pro on his helmet. Would go nicely edited in with the drone footage.
He's gonna get on that train
Beautiful looking train every time I see a steam loco it reminds me of my Dad who worked on the steam locos in India built by Baldwin . Cheers from Australia .
Very Nice Video
🌲🌳🇮🇳🌳🌲
Thanks for shooting this.
Interesting that so many steam engines have been rebuilt in the last decade, especially the mallets... And used for major service instead of just short excursions.
Wow, that is beautiful. I live next to a main line in New York, and my Mother remembers steam trains running on it. My house is very old and the dust that falls out of it is still black from the coal engines.
N&W called; they'd like their whistle back. 😉
Steam whistles are SO KOOL🤗
Looking good and running great i see , good job letting this engine run the rails again
When 734 returns, she can doublehead with 1309.
They retired 734
@@jeremylando40 bummer
@@jeremylando40 can you truly prove that the 734 is retired? I know she needs work and it may be some years before she’s seen again do you have genuine proof that mountain thunder is retired?
Absolutely gorgeous video quality mate, what cameras do you use to take film & photos?
She is just like Mount St Helens with that smoke coming out of her funnel
Excellent 👍👍👍
very cool
Always awesome to see another one of these old girls broght back to life!
It brings my son joy when ever a steam locomotive 🚂 is restored to operation 😃😀😄😂🥲!
Port and starboard are on the wring sides of the FP40
Wonderful to see this beast and also the Union Pacific 4014 on the tracks again. I saw the 4014 in Plaquemine, Louisiana last year. It is a 4-8-8-4 articulated. They were called the Big Boy.
*She looks beautiful... Last time I saw her, they were still doing dry runs, cab wasn't even painted, etc.*
SENSACIONAL @@@@@@@
6:57, she still has her C&O chimes :)
Such a nice sound.
Great video! So nice seeing This steam locomotive in action!
I watch the video with pleasure, thank you🤟🤟
Beautiful locomotive, thanks for posting this!👏👏👏
Great video! Love it. Thanks for sharing.👍
Wonderful to see her run again, congratulations to the team!
Awe inspiring machines! thank you for showing .
Coal .....baby!
Very clear you did not hear about hot metal before, there is no fuel no smoke, the energy comes from within a certain alloy. google my name clic on my name.
That's real coal rolling 😀
👏🏽👏🏽😁This is history in the making. 4014 is beautiful. It's about time CSX.
This is not UP 4014, it’s C&O 1309
the fireman kinda stinks, always so much smoke
3:51 so why do they stop here instead of going the rest of the way up the mountain
I believe there's still some track work farther down the line that needs to be done before 1309 can travel the entire WMSR route regularly.
A shorter train ride allows them to run more trains a day to increase capacity, so more people can ride behind 1309 on the Polar Express. They’ve already been to Frostburg with the engine and will likely go all the way up again the next time the engine runs.
Glad it wasn’t converted to oil.
Me too!
That is awesome having a bike trail right next to the existing active railroad corridor.
My son really doesn't like that because he says that the track the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad uses was once double tracked so the place where the bike path is was once another track and my son hates it when Railroad tracks are removed and replaced with bicycle paths in his honest opinion it doesn't seem right and I don't think so either. He would also like the rest of the line from switch #9 to Connellsville Pennsylvania to be rebuilt and used again but he does not want that to be wishful thinking he wants it to be a reality!
13 minutes and 9 seconds, *I see what you did there*
4K Steampunk.
Any vids of 1309 to frostburg or she isn’t ready use to tight curvatures at Helmstetters
There is video on Facebook of her going all the way up to Frostburg, I’m surprised there isn’t any here on UA-cam.
WOW!!!! LOOK at that giant!!!!!
1:51
Why does it always seem that in the USA the fireman is over stoking the fire plumes of jet black smoke. And every time I watch the British steam engines you seldom ever see any sign of over stoking the boiler? Always light gray smoke from the stack!
They're doing it for the "Optics", they want to make it look like the "Old Days", we remember, from before the E P A, found you could run cleaner, and still get the job done. NOW, if they catch you doing it 'without special approval', and monitoring, they WILL, slap you with a hefty fine ! But, you know, how us 'little kids', LOVE to see the "Fire Breathing Dragon ", come to life.
P.s: Over here, it's spelled, over coAling. Ps2; Happy New Year !
@@dennispersson9466Over here we have this shitty thing called spellcheck that screws up everything. P.S. Everyone and I do mean EVERYONE hates a spell Nazi!
@@ShainAndrews I don't know what planet you were born on, and when, but the EPA, has been busting the USA's nuts, since the mid 1960's. And the Norfolk and Western (now N.S.), was fighting Dieselization into the mid 70's. There were steam preservationists, such as Steamtown, in Pa., and another group in Bellows Falls, Vt., as well as scenic former logging railroads in California, Colorado, Washington, and Oregon, from the 50's, through Today, so DON'T try to push your other Baby bottle nipple chewers philosophy that steam engines died when the Romans still practiced CRUCIFIXION !
And like i said, when movies were made in Black and White, on a cloudy day, the sky showed up hazy grey, so they made the Smoke, as dark as possible, to stand out. 'Optics, baby' , as they say in Hollywood.
Very good, hugs! 👍
This whistle with that Locomotive!?
And by the way. The footage at 6:40 reminds me of Rocky Mountain Express!. Incredible!
LOVE IT!!!!
I caught the Chessie steam special when I was a brakeman in Detroit in the mid 70's. I was the last engineer who was paid to be on a steam locomotive when I retired from the Chicken Shit Xpress in 2020. I vastly prefered wide bodies!
Maybe WMSR can one day repair the boiler crack and restore our SP 786 here on the A&TC
"Peach Creek Roundhouse"?? Do you mean the Peach Creek in Logan County, West Virginia??
That would be the one.
@Crossbuck Productions I've been by there several times over the years. I'm a Insurance Special Investigator and worked Logan County for 16 yrs. My original Modal Railroad was called Coal River and Horse Creek RR. It included Peach Creak.
Should have done video of 1309 pulling up to Cumberland
Love that whistle
Actually the correct phrase is when Hendrix met God!
Dang guy on the bike, prob ruined your shots.
Wonderful video, just to let you know, if someone hasn't already pointed it out, you have a spec of dirt on your screen,
Awesome!
Love the guy following on his bike,great way to get up close and follow along.
Very nice video! Great night coverage
those lights and diesels completeiy ruin the whole concept ! BIG FAIL
It’s a Christmas train for kids. The only failure here is you trying to ruin the fun of literal children.
Keep your opinions to yourself! Nobody wants to hear that trash!
Steam engines are like Formula 1 cars beautiful 😍 👌 ❤ ✨ ♥ 😋 😍 👌
Magnificent.
Is it a Compound Mallet?
Gotta get back there in November
Yep the steam machine is dragging the dead Diesels back home.
This video should've been one second shorter
It is, in fact, 13 minutes and 9 seconds long. Depending on the device, browser, time, etc you’re viewing from, it can either be 13:08,13:09 or 13:10. But the video in reality is 13:09.
It's a huge massive train and unbelievable
Living breathing mechanical monster.....
whose beautiful sounds are the mockery about modernity....
of diesels and electrics
their lack of voice
they will never transcending time
like the C&O 1309
i thought most of these restored locos were converted to run on oil or gas not coal.
I've read the explanation to the Diesels being coupled up but I'm not convinced.
For a start, when these locomotive move off, there's a helluva lot more steam blown out of the cylinders and the smoke box, it just didnt work for me sorry.
I ride on steam trains frequently in the UK and there are no 'diesel assists' in any way shape or form.
Restored engines are always put through a stringent series of testing before being coupled up to a load, especially paying customers.
Sorry, a bit of a damp squib this video😥😥
This engine is roughly 3x stronger than a normal British mainline engine, and she was tested several times before being attached to this train hauling passengers. The diesels were there to lead the train back to the station because there wasn’t a place to run around the engine on the route.
I don’t know what else would convince you. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
should not have sloppily slapped holiday lights on it
6:15 “I asked you to go to the can before we left “.