Chessie the Railroad Kitten
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Not only am I an Amtrak guy, I'm also a cat guy. I love cats, and trains. What better way to combine the two than talk about the Chesapeake & Ohio/Chessie System? The C&O skyrocketed into popularity with the introduction of their little kitten mascot in 1933. Derived from an Austrian etching by cat and animal artist, Guido Grunewald, the C&O acquired the rights to use the image and made the kitty their mascot. But how popular was Chessie the Railroad Kitten and her family? How long did Chessie act as a mascot? Find out in this video!
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Every so often I’ll still see a Chessie System rolling stock. Even faded and neglected, it’s a nicer livery than CSX.
CSX still means Chessie System Railroad(AKA Chessie System)!
For me, it’s Chessie-Seaboard
I HATE CSX we want chessie back!
csx sucks
Norfolk Southern for a win
If you want more people to love your RR: Make a cat your logo.
Moxie Pacific might add that.
Guys please stop saying that csx is bad just last month the railroad planted locomotive no 1973 in the chessie system livery
@@voshanimacoon-jagarnauth2457
ITS NOT ENOUGH
And then for the funny , slap the scheme onto a steam locomotive from another railroad , but then it gets scorched in a roundhouse fire-
Now I understand why everybody says "CSX bad". Completely understandable. #BringBackChessie
yes.
Agreed.
@Coolt’s trains Yes, you are, CSX 366. A small sticker is not heritage livery.
Yes!
CSX Just...... WHY??!! #BringBackChessie
Chessie stays very popular with the railroad. She's used for a lot of csx posters inside their yard offices.
That’s nice.
Would you, @cavalier liberty, want to put the Chessie System logo on a hard hat?
@@connerrolofson1585 I don't see why not. She is an icon.
Not only was the kitten on railroad equipment. She was on the C&O's railroad ferries, and tugboat smokestacks.
Nice i didnt knew that also like the Metra E8 on your profile pic
Oh yeah, thanks! There's actually an ex Metra E8 and F7 at the Illinois railroad museum. Both in running condition!
Never thought a kitten would have such an impact on a railroad
I named my first cat Chessie after the railroad. If I'd adopted his sister instead of him, she would have been named after the kitten in the advertising. Not only was he named after the railroad, he was also a "railfan". When I first adopted him, I had my Lionel train going around the perimeter of my living room. He never attacked it but would follow it around the living room. When it went behind the couch, he would even run around the couch to wait for it and follow it around again. In the basement, he loved to curl up on the stairs to watch me and the trains on my layout.
That's adorable. My doberman is scared of my trains and my Boston Terrier doesn't care much for them unless he so happens to be in the way of one
How Chessie doing
Floridian Rail & Auto my (former) friend Nik has a cat named chessie.
Thats Cool!
@@Bluegoose-df7if Chessie passed away on Saturday, August 7, 2010. He was born with a heart defect and was a little over 3 1/2 years when he passed.
We love chessie the cat bc she was given a great railroad and a cute little symbol of her
I love her too 😺
I have a dog named Chessie. She is a railfan dog and I take her to see local trains. I lived next to the Chessie System in the early 80s to mid 80s. I could watch the trains from my bedroom. I also rode the Chessie Steam Special that you show in this video. This video is awesome!
I have a cat named cheesie.
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That’s great! It’s kinda sad to see that sleeping kitten losing popularity for some reason, but made me feeling better knowing there still are pictures, locomotives, and rolling stock with the logo of the kitten on it.
CSX should consider changing their normal C into the Chessie C
Doesn't the C already mean the Chessie System though?
Chessie Seaboard X
@@Sovayer x means consolidated also I’m water lever railfan on ts200
@@SoonerStateSirens1 dafuq u doin' here
@@Sovayer get on ts200
Chessie was a icon for the C & O and Chessie System of 67 years. Chessie did her job and she deserves a good retirement. Don't forget Chessie!
Isn’t it appropriate that I watched this with an orphaned kitten sleeping on my chest. He and his 3 other litter mates have been with us for 3 weeks after his mother, a wild barn cat, was killed on the road.
How’s the kitten doing now?
This was so cool to watch!
I want to kick you now!
if you look up the song “Driver-8” by R.E.M, they feature many clips from the Chessie System in the 80’s. Great song with great clips of the Chessie.
When I was a 8yo kid in 2003 my dad got me a electric train set from Mehano, the locomotive was a Chessie System EMD SD40-2, I liked that paint scheme. As a kid I didn't know anything about trains but as I grew up I discovered EMD and I was amazed by the 2-stroke diesel rumble.
As a kid I just loved trains and cats are my favorite animals.
Today I'm a train engineer!
Thank you little kitten! ❤️
Greetings from Croatia!
Hello Croatia! Greetings from Missouri! Almost 30 years ago moved out here from the Virginia coast near where both N&W and Chessie met the ocean to unload their coal. YES, that EMD rumble is nice. Tell you a tale about that; some years ago I was at my parents house visiting & Dad is in to those flight simulator computer programs and had gotten Microsoft Train Simulator. I'm not in to computer stuff but he thought I might like driving the scenario which had a lashup of Chessie SD9's climbing Sand Patch grade. His computer of the time had a _Very_ good sound system. Computer was in family room in their basement. At some point Dad came down and asked me to turn down the sound because it was making the silverware on the kitchen table vibrate. Oops! Sorry, Dad!
So here’s an idea, get rid of the most loved logo in the United States.
Why?
@@swpandwleandcsx459 thats what csx did
@@swpandwleandcsx459 its sarcasm
Its seaboard fault
That's an advertising agency for you. Charged many thousands of dollars to fix something which was not broke.
I’m wearing a chessie shirt while watching this.
*yes I like chessie*
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how GOOD this is?? Like, everything about it is just amazing. The audio, pictures, videos, editing, it all goes so well together and makes a really incredible video. I can’t wait to see more of these! Keep up the great work my guy.
A couple of years ago I adopted 2 cats who were looking for a home together. They had been given the most God awful names by their previous owner (Capri and Sparkles, Sparkles being the male) so guess what names they have now? Yup, Chessie and Peake.
If the C&O or Chessie System were still around, they'd be Titans of internet advertising.
We have our own version of Chessie the Cat at the Virginia Museum of Transportation
We don't have a name for her but she loves to hide out in the Virginian #4
So I just call her Virginia
How about Ginny!
nah what about Vanny
Lots of people mention missing the Chessie System paint on locomotives and rolling stock. It was one of the finest contemporary paint schemes in railroading. Others would be Conrail, new Florida East Coast, and Kansas City Southern, IMHO.
It was a fine railroad, at that - efficiently run, not burdened with passenger service, and its trains ran on a pristine roadbed.
Chessie has a wicked paint, change my mind.
I agreed, more better than the G&W paint scheme for sure.
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You want someone to do the impossible?
Reminds me of the old Vancouver Canucks colors.
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"Sleep like a kitten. Arrive fresh as a daisy.". What a cute slogan. I sure wish one could do that on a Greyhound! Only once did i get to sleep on a train, it was the early 80s, i slept like Chessie in an AmTrak sleeping compartment and did wake up fresh as a daisy. In the late 80s, touring the southwest including the Grand Canyon, i also slept like a kitten on a "Green Tortoise" bus that provided very comfy mattresses for all-night traveling.
It’s cool that a Kitten was a mascot for a railroad
Everyone knows the Chessie System is a legend of the railroad market!
why do i see you everywhere
this has allowed for a single piece of dopamine to be produced by my brain because kitty
My mom actually has a Chesapeake and Ohio mug with that kitten on it!!
This was the most wholesome thing I've seen all day.
I'm not crying, you are!
This cat will be missed
Cause she died of a car crash at the age of 91
Growing up along the steel mills in Youngstown my mom and I would always count all the Chessie cars that would pass us by! Great vid!
Ah yes, the station master's cat, something iconic of the railways of the past.
I had an old ho scale f7 diesel that i got from an old lady, and it had chessie system on the side. Glad to finally know the heartwarming story.
Also still used by the Chessie credit union in Cumberland, MD
But it is “kind of” Butchered
I can't help but wonder if the person who came up with the "sleep like a kitten" bit ever watched very many of them sleep. They twitch, move around, make faces, etc. just like human babies. They're hilarious.
Well, we humans also use the phrase "eat like a bird" for someone who barely nibbles at their food when in fact birds often eat twice or more their body weight in a day.
I grew up near Corbin, KY. I can remember seeing CSX locomotives still in the sleeping cat scheme. So grateful for that.
We will never forget chessie
I rescued a kitten 14 years ago on the railway across the road where I live and named her Chessie after the famed Chessie. I did not know what the famed Chessie looked like so I checked and they looked almost identical! I still have her she is my life! Thank you so much stay safe and God bless.
2 of the things I love: trains and cats!
Grew up near Youngstown, Ohio. Remember all the Chessie locos going through Struthers, Ohio to the mills(well, what was left of them at the time, *sniff*) Great, fond memories. Thanks for upload.👍😊
I love Chessie! One of my first Model trains was a Chessie system and I've been loving it ever since!
I love these "history of thr logo" videos (that is, assuming that this was one of those videos) and I cannot wait for the next one.
As for Chessie herself, she'll always hold the place as being on my first model train (an old bachmann boxcar)
I love chessie so much I even named my pet cat after Chessie. I found him stuck in my pool as a month old kitten after getting home from a vacation and after I recused him we couldn't find his family so we adopted him. He even looks exactly like the Chessie in the advertisements.
They really missed a chance to keep the Chessie C in the CSX logo
CHESSIE IS BACK ON CSX as a heritage unit
I liked all the parts showing who merged when to form what. I was always a bit confused with exactly what railroads csx came to be. Chessie is like the queen of England. She is immortal, and will never die In our hearts. :`)
Animals Can Be Memorable In Every Way, Including Railroads Back In The Day
One other item of interest: under C&O control, the B&O also had a cat named "Bessie", but apparently she was not as popular as mama Chessie.
Bessie sounds like a bootleg Chessie, lol.
what about Newton, the N&W's cat?
I can't tell if you are joking or not
Great video. I can remember from when I was a little kid, there was an old boxcar with the Chessie System railroad logo sitting in an abandon siding at the railroad yard in Zanesville, Ohio. I think it was scrapped when the railroad was sold in 2008.
Weird. Yesterday, I read an article about Chessie and then the next day this shows up in my reccomended
nice
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Never knew about this adorable kitty. I'd seen the logo but never knew the origin. I paint oil paintings and use my kitty Moonbeam for the logo on all my paintings.
Moonbeam is a black cat!
Chessie System colors were so wild and fun looking i loved it.
Very good documentary of a great era!
The most classic image of CSX to date, and will remain like that for years to come!
Oh wow.. it really was a cat all along? No wonder I absolutely loved the Chessie liveries! Edit: I learned way more then I should've in under 7mins, Thanks for this video bud!
I remember going to a train convention, I got a Chessie Railroad Christmas ornament. It said the story on the back of the box.
I swear to god there are like no good train documentaries I’ve watched like all of your videos atleast 3 times each
I’ve been a fan of Chessie since I was a kid! When we were railfanning by my maternal grandmother’s apartment in Kingstree, South Carolina (the train tracks running from DC to Miami ran by at the corner of her block), we used to count the Chessie silhouettes on the freight cars, and we mourned the loss of her logo when CSX bought out Chessie System. I have the book telling her history, model railroad cars with the Chessie logo, and several T-shirts featuring her. It’s great fun when people recognize Chessie on my shirt, and even more fun telling her history to people who don’t recognize her.
But we also have a real-life Chessie-one of our three cats, a gray marble tabby, is named Chessie in honor of the great railroad mascot. She’s featured in videos on my channel along with her adopted brothers Raven and Eragon.
Am I the only one who didn't know the back story of Chessie because I never knew (or could figure out) what that logo image was? It drove me crazy and now, thanks to this video I know.
Ah! I see her all the time on rail cars! We have a rail yard in our town and Chessie is there every month!
Great video and some awesome history! Wish Chessie was still around today!
We all miss Chessie and her family.
The same marketing guy who came up with "New Coke" got a job at CSX and decided to drop Chessie
i dislike that man even more now. wait is that even true?
Chesapeake and Ohio 614 was part of the chessie steam trips. She didn’t have a fancy paint scheme but did have the chessie logo on her tender during the 614-T test Trips
1985
Csx just recently bought back the sleeping kitty in their Heratage Locomotive 1973 in the modern era. It started with B & O Heratage Locomotive.
2:23 I have that on a stamped tin picture.
We actually have one of their cabooses on display in the middle of our town, Rainelle, WV
Thank you for sharing that Every time I watch a train I always look to see if I can find any remaining chessie logo
My ex once expressed intressed in Chessie Cat cuz she remembers the trading cards and memoribilia from the 70s and 80s growing up in Findley, OH in the heart of C&O Land. So at a train show, I got her a Pink Chessie Cat shirt. She was trilled and still wears it often. Even though we don't date anymore, she's still grateful for it.
I still have my new napkins and match books from Chessie along with a free pass on the C&O Ferry on Lake Michigan. worked as Switchman for the C&O 1973
Great video!!!! Me and my dad always wondered what was with the cat everytime we were at a railroad crossing.
I just saw a box car with extremely washed out Chessie System livery on a siding next to my shop today.
While I've lived in TN for the past 35 years, I was raised just north of Baltimore and remember seeing the Chessie symbol all during my youth.
I agree with one comment bring back Chessie The 🐈 Cat! How I remember when the Penn Central was pulling equipment from C&O and I still remember " For Progress" & all the liveries in their originals during the 1960's & 1970's into the 1980's. Thanks for the making of this video! I love it!👍🙂
Could you imagine a SD70ACE or evan a GEVO IN that paint scheme.
I love cats and I always loved the Chessie System locomotive paint scheme. Thank you for this look at the history of their logo.
I remember seeing the Chessie symbol on freight cars as a kid. I always thought the Chessie was short for Cheshire Cat. Know I know! Thanks for posting this!
I'm a rail fan because of Chessie! My first model train was a Chessie.
It’s so interesting, Cats guard the grain, and they travel in style in sleeper cars.
Thanks for the note on Tama, she has a whole line of stationmaster successors too!
Thank you. I always wanted to know about the cat
4:11 I know the exact spot where that photo was taken! It’s just over five minutes from where I live.
My dad was an engineer for the B&O, he then was an engineer for the Chessie System, then an engineer for CSX which is who he retired from.
Story story, I have always wondered about chessie system pics
6:12 Rest easy, Dirt. You served the Nevada Northern well.
Dirt is a legend who will live on like Chessie.
Adorable!
It's crazy seeing a whole history behind the logo on a shit load of boxcars, at greenfield village.
The kitten seemed to do more than boost morale: it helped the system remain profitable through its fame, and its part of the reason why Chessie was pretty much the only East Coast system during the 70s next to Norfolk and Western that could keep their tracks in shape. That alone meant many companies would be repeat customers for their service compared to many of the larger ailing systems during that era (ESPECIALLY compared to Penn Central.) so I gotta give that adorable feline a lot of respect for that.
Not sure why I started crying at the end
As a kid who grew up in Worthington next to the now CSX line,I vividly remember all of the beautifully painted Chessie System trains. We even had the Chessie system safty films shown to us in elementary school due to the rail line bordering the east side of Brookside elementary where I attended.
CSX is a cold unappealing emblem. BRING Back the Cat!
Fascinating! I know putting this video together was a lot of work. Thanks so much for doing it! I’d seen the logo for decades and had no knowledge about what was behind it.
Last year would have been 47 years for chessie system
I grew up with Chessie System. It will always be my favorite. I am also a cat guy and I actually named my first cat "Chessie." Great video! Thanks for sharing!
I grew up in the coal fields of southern West Virginia. I rode behind 614 Chessie Steam Special from Saint Albans, WV to Hinton, WV as a teenager in 1977. I modeled my HO Scale layout off the southern West Virginia Coal Fields and its was called the Coal River and Horse Creek RR. Based on areas from Kanawha County, WV to Logan County, WV.
Still support the C&O, B&O, WM and Chessie System Historical Societies.
Oh my goodness... I had no it was a train thing... when I was a kid I had the playing cards, bedside lamp (actually just got rid of that a few months ago!), couple through pillows, and a bed comforter/blanket!
I still see chessie rail cars (mainly hoppers) a lot. It’s nice.
A true railfan would name there cat Chessie.
Chessie System will live inside everyone.
I would LOVE CSX if they made Chessie system paint schemes where the full train is that paint scheme.
I live just across the mountain from the C&O historical society, and I remember as a kid there were two kittens they were raising named Chessie and Tessie if I remember correctly, and I was able to buy two plushies of the kittens, though later they were adopted by a family! But it’s kinda funny to think I met the mascot of the C&O!