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 ©

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 ©

Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614T shows its muscle pulling an eastbound coal drag past a pair of classic cantilever signal structures at Hurricane, West Virginia.

Ross Rowland’s ex-C&O 4-8-4, renumbered to 614T, storms through Hurricane, West Virginia with an eastbound coal train.

In January of 1985, an unlikely scenario unfolded as steam returned to coal train service on the Chesapeake & Ohio main line. Entrepreneur and locomotive owner Ross Rowland headed American Coal En... (more)

C&O 614 charging through Chesapeake, WV.

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