This abandoned steam loco is actually not abandoned. It is C&O K-4 "Kanawha" Class 2-8-4 number 2700. It is one of 12 preserved Kanawhas, and is currently awaiting cosmetic restoration.
@@yes-mv2ub It's part of the display at the Dennison Depot Railroad Museum in Dennison, Ohio. The museum was conveniently left out of the video in order to make the locomotive appear to be "abandoned." I hope the videographer paid the admission to the museum in the office of the adjacent depot building before he started making his video. The locomotive has been recently repainted. Will it be restored cosmetically or otherwise? It depends on the availability of funds and parts. The adjacent rail line is part of the Ohio Central Railroad formerly owned by Jerry Jacobsen, which is now part of the Gennesee and Wyoming rail system.
I helped move the 2700 out of a park in St. Albans WV in 1986. It was going to Canton Ohio to be restored but unfortunately it wasn't to be. I feel now it should have remained there, at least it would have been in better shape than it is now.
Charlotte Boggess what's the status of the locomotive right now because I noticed that all the flues are out of the locomotive as well as the cab is completely striped?
Sweet! this is in Dennison! Im in Phila. Too those of you that say hes wrong about the polar express, hes not. hes not talking about the steam engine, in the winter, Dennison depot runs a "polar express" , just a special passenger train, and that's what they call it.
3:45 that train has an automatic stoker! Cool! You don't see many steam engines with those. For those who don't know what that is, it is a mechanism that automatically feeds coal from the tender into the firebox.
Trainzguy 2472 Do you mean you don't see many operational steam locomotives with stoker's? Many classes of locomotives had them. But there are not many running now that have them or they have been converted to oil like the UP engines. They weren't automatic either. The fireman still had to control where the coal went and how fast it was feed on the fire. They also hat to hand fire the areas the jets couldn't get the coal.
There’s no such thing as an “automatic” stoker. It still is manually controlled by the fireman. It doesn’t just magically go off when the fire needs it to.
I went to Dennison Ohio back in 2015 to see the polar express train and I remember seeing 2700. I asked a employee at the station (down the road from 2700) why it was there abandoned. The employee told me that 2700 was going to be restored but it never happened. In my opinion they should restore it and use it for the polar express train.
It would be cool to be restored, but Pere Marquette 1225 up here in Michigan was the actual locomotive use to film the 'Polar Express". Id still love to see It run
Because it's probably broken beyond repair and would cost even more trying to maintain it through revenue service? Do you not think logistically before you comment?
The guy who shot this video should do a follow-up... Some great information below on the current status of the steam "locomotive". I really appreciated and found interesting many of the comments and history behind this locomotive...
The4014Gamer ForTheWin Well, according to the ‘know it all’ in the movie the Polar Express is a “Baldwin 2-8-4”, but we all know that doesn’t exist. And yes, the 1225 has been declared the official Polar Express.
The train used in Polar Express was modeled after the one that runs in Michigan and is operational,not rusting along side the tracks somewhere. There are even Polar Express tours at christmas time. The town is Durand Mi. You can look it up on the web. That is sad seeing that train sitting exposed to the elements never to run again. Eventually it will be removed and scrapped. The hot box is removed from that train,gives you a great view of the steam pipes. what a shame seeing it rust away.
What an amazing footage you got here loved it! I agreed with one of your followers, since the second I saw the train, I said that train looks like a train from a movie. Who knows if this was the actual train they used, guess we won't.. Thx for this amazing share..
I feel like some facts are in order. C&O 2700 was the first C&O K-4 Kanawha built. The engine has a completely different face than the "Polar Express" (Pere Marquette Berkshire 1225). However, mechanically they are very similar engines. Will this engine run? No, as there's less interest in the area and 3 other locomotives of this type are under mechanical restoration (Nickel Plate Road 763, C&O 2716 and C&O 2789). Is this engine abandon? No, it got a very large cosmetic restoration this year. All missing cosmetic parts were replaced. Lastly, the shot at 5:22 should interest more people than it does. It shows that all of the boiler tubes have been pulled. There's also a removed fitting, as light is entering the center of the boiler. This does not speak good things about its condition. While the engine looks pretty, I doubt it will run unless something large changes.
Ok I get the point yes it's there are alot of good lookin Engines out there ask yourself this do you and your friends have what it takes to reBuild from the ground up?
2:50 The railroad's police department ("the employees") feels like citing or arresting you. Trespassing on railroad property is not taken lightly. But still, super cool video. I wish they could make it look nice and put it on display.
I was announced this month that this k-4 2-8-4 The Chesapeake & Ohio Steam Engine No. 2700, stored at the Dennison Railroad Depot Museum, is finally being restored.
This steam locomotive is a C&O Kanawha type. It has been passed from owner to owner in hope of restoration. Removed parts were never recovered, however a group of dedicated preservationists have recently cosmetically restored it and placed it on display. She probably has a good future, at least as a display piece.
Your not exactly wrong this is a 2-8-4 Berkshire except it's an old Chesapeake and Ohio K4 Kanawa and the 1225 that is the polar express was a Pere Marquette N-1
Great comments ! the C&O did not call them Berkshire, but they ARE a sister engine to the 1225 , the 2 8 4 is the key, that is the wheel arrangement for those " non-railfan " or the young'uns :) The concept that these can be "retrofitted" to other than Full Steam for display is a slap though . . . After being up close and personal with 1225 a year ago, - THERE IS NOTHING that will ever compare or simulate this much machinery slowly and SILENTLY inching its way past you as it pulls into a siding to switch or stop for a lunch break (like 1225 does ) I MEAN NO Sound at all - just a tiny hiss once in a while ...& the tracks creaking under her weight . . and then she comes to life and opens up on her way out ! HELL YEAH ! Awesome day ! Check out the Steam Railroad Institute in Owasso Michigan for 1225 and tour rides on the live steam runs. They also interface with the Fort Wayne folks who run the 765 Nickleplate Road Berkshire . Other Steam umits still around - UPs Challenger and Big Boy, a Mountain out in Montana I believe and a few Shay engines around yet . There are others but look up Steam Engine in your state to find your local details. Happy Hunting !
Although I'm sure you meant no harm, standing on railroad property is rather frowned upon by many of their employees. That was a beautiful steam engine. Ill bet she was a mighty beast in her day that pulled tons of freight all over the place. Sad to see her just sitting there left to die after serving her owners so well.
As long as some vandal doesntt come along and destroy it and the rust doesn't get too bad, it can be restored. Be a thing of beauty seeing it run again
What a neat find. In my state if you are on or within the railroad right of way of a used section of track they arrest you and fine you, no questions asked. You were so lucky to be able to get that footage.
+J Vatell, Wow really? lol u saw how random it was. Thanks for commenting. Ya if ur quick enough usually u can avoid the people who want to ask questions ha. Thanks bud.
The railroad police don't play, that's for sure. I'm sure the people in the other train didn't view you as a threat, but you were trespassing. I'm sure they have that train under surveillance. Hey, thanks for the vid
that also how i lost my best friend in 2013. his whole personality changed. and there abandoned houses on ever street in Detroit Michigan and many without a job. I'd even build a lunch cafeteria so no one left to waste gas to go get lunch a lot easier only if I won the lottery I would restore all railroad equipment including switches and signals along with coaches and freight cars diesels and electric locomotives and rail speeders and rail trucks. and go across america and Canada and mexico untill i go global there is no reason these locomotives can not have a purpose specially in this decade when we need our help we can get. thank you For your time
The steam locomotive pictured is a Chesapeake and Ohio 2-8-4. Although this is a Berkshire type, some railroads called steam engines by a different name. The C&O called this type a Kanawha. Similarly, the New York Central called their Mountain types, Mohawks and their Northerns were called Niagara. The big screw inside the coal bunker of the tender is a stoker. It would take two men to shovel coal on this coal hungry beast so they invented the stoker. The largest portion of a tender is full of water to feed the boiler. Many of the rods that connect the pistons to the wheels were removed. Some were removed by thieves but a few were removed to allow the railroads to tow it to its present location. The reason this loco will not be restored to opeerating condition is money. The Union Pacific railroad is presently restoring a steam loco that is about twice the size as the 2700 and it will cost them at least a million bucks and that engine had most of its parts still intact. Sadly the best that can be expected for 2700 is a cosmetic restoration. Jerry
If it wasn't for the different wheel set i would say it an 2-6-6-2 Mallet articulated locomotive. One is in huntington west virgina and i go and see every chance i get.only 1 of 2 of that class left,one in huntington and the second one that was in Russell ky.the town next to mine i use to climb on it when i was little and think i was engineer is being restore as we speak.im glad that both are being or have been restore and i hope this beauty does as well
So sad to see all it's guts stripped out and missing so much off of it. Looks like anything and everything you could pull off of it with a basic Craftsmen set of tools has been taken. Hopefully the club or organization that owns it now will look after it and restore it cosmetically. "Stuffed and Mounted" is better than derelict and calling to the torches like it is in the video. Maybe you can follow up with it if they ever make any progress on the old engine.
C&O K4 Kanawha...........none run today as of now, one is in for being repaired but is going to be repainted Southern 2716(Which heavily ticks me off), I'd love to see C&O steam run again.
It's not abandoned, it's on display at the Dennison depot in Dennison, Oh. It just recently got a cosmetic restoration thanks to a grant from the State of Ohio.
i have lionel steam engines there loud heavy and pull heavy cars with no trouble but a real one i just respect the people that ran them really hard work to keep them running god bless them if it wasnt for trains the economy would be sunk
Not a train - A locomotive. It has been stripped of just about everything necessary to make it run. Looking inside the FIRE BOX - not the steam engine. Nice shot of the screw mechanism for the automatic stoker. Also shot of the fire tubes (Maybe). Too bad you couldn't get more of the exterior. Seems like it has been stripped of many parts. You did a nice job of exploration. especially in view of the RR people nearby.
"Abandoned" must be the most misused word on TH-cam these days. 2700 was retired by 1956 by the C&O. She was placed on display in a park in Charleston, WV for many years, before being moved to St. Albans, WV in the 1970s. She was moved around several more times during the 80s, and finally ended up in Dennison in the early 1990s. The depot museum is trying to get the funds together to cosmetically restore 2700. It costs a fortune to even 'pretty up' a steam locomotive, let alone for operation. SHE'S NOT ABANDONED. It just takes a lot of coin to make one of these look nice, something not easily done for a museum with limited funds.
This locomotive is the Chesapeake and Ohio's K4 kanawha examples is C&O 2716 the famous C&O partly excursion star than C&O greenbriar 614 but the road no. Is 2700 and the other K4 kanawha's road no. Is 2716 so its an sister locomotive
This locomotive is a 2-8-4 "Berkshire" like the Polar Express steam locomotive, but it's not actually the one it is based on. PMRR 1225 is the basis for the Polar Express.
Someone needs to acquire that engine because it's the first of the 2-8-4 Kanawha type steam locomotives built by Alco it should belong in a museum rather than leave to rust and decay
I hope this engine would find a home some where soon this is sad seeing an steam locomotives left to rust what happened to the locomotive after it was found
This is actually apart of a museum keeping chessipeak and Ohio 2700 outside just rusting away I mean not the best place to keep this kind of engine hopefully someone will restore it
Not really abandoned as it is on railroad property and is fairly well known in the railroad community, it's just really old and run down. It's ashame too, as 2700 was the flagship of a once great class of steam locomotives that operated all over the C&O, unfortunately she now sits collecting rust.
To The 'Narrator' that is a steam engine, or a Locomotive, not a train. A train is what a Locomotive becomes when it pulls the cars that turn it into a train. The train is what is rolling by pulled by its locomotive.
I know this steam locomotive, I saw this locomotive with my uncle during my trip at SugarCreek Ohio while I was visiting at Age Of Steam Roundhouse Museum
once i win the lottery I'll take it up here for full rebuild and fully restored then sold to the Baltimore and ohio railroad tourist museum from here in Detroit Michigan at the old Michigan state fare grounds with plenty of space and a building to house the equipment. its better then loseing our country to out sourcing and many without a job. were are. very close to the next great depression since 1929
I hate when people say they'll restore a locomotive one day or something like that. Bro, you're not gonna restore it. You have no idea how it works, or how much money it costs.
its not abandoned, its being worked on. and the *polar express train* is the Pere Marquette 1225, the engine the polar express is based after, thus the polar express train is not the correct name to say.
About every railroad museum that has a steam excursion (and some with diesels) have their own polar express they run. Just because Pere Marquette's one is the one they designed the movie from one doesn't mean that it's the only one. Heck, if you think about it even 1225 could hardly truly be called a polar express because it doesn't go to a pole, lol.
Rebel9668 but its the train they use for a design for the book and the move I'm calling it the real polar express besides it even has the number 1225 on it and at Christmas the polar express ride they really use this train and you ride it to the north pole and I'm not letting you ruin my dreams about riding that train
It's a Lima Berkshire 2-8-4. These were the maids of all works in the eastern states. They were originally for the Chesapeake and Ohio Road. I think 3 eastern RR companies had em.
Not even close, the train in back to the future is a 4-6-0 steam engine, the one in this video is a 2-8-4 berishere type steam locomotive like the polar express. This train has more in common with the polar express, than the Train from BTTF 3
I don't give people money by the way I have all of the New stuff now so if you don't want me to come and fix them then I can just make 5 in 1 year the same size so just forget it I will just make 5 of my own and open my own railway and stations of my own so stuff you
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David Thompson your gonna make 5 in 1 year? ROFLMAO! Ok...you go ahead and make 5 of them and build your own railroad and then we will see...
I've got 62 people that are helping me with the job so and I'm starting tonight so shut the fuck up
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You think that we eat your brand of cereal? Whats it called again? Oh yeah, thats it...Stoopidhead, the cereal for the cerebrally challenged! Good luck with that anyways...keep us posted! I say that knowing after you are finished here we will never hear about it again. By the way, just what would you call this railroad? What will you haul? Where will it be located?
This abandoned steam loco is actually not abandoned. It is C&O K-4 "Kanawha" Class 2-8-4 number 2700. It is one of 12 preserved Kanawhas, and is currently awaiting cosmetic restoration.
Patrick: what how did you know?
I have seen the one in baltimore (# 2718 i think )
I’ve seen c and o 2727
@@yes-mv2ub It's part of the display at the Dennison Depot Railroad Museum in Dennison, Ohio. The museum was conveniently left out of the video in order to make the locomotive appear to be "abandoned." I hope the videographer paid the admission to the museum in the office of the adjacent depot building before he started making his video.
The locomotive has been recently repainted. Will it be restored cosmetically or otherwise? It depends on the availability of funds and parts.
The adjacent rail line is part of the Ohio Central Railroad formerly owned by Jerry Jacobsen, which is now part of the Gennesee and Wyoming rail system.
That's good to know
Very cool video!! so many people think abandoned just means houses and buildings so glad you got this one!
+s glatt thank u so much hope u subscribed!!
I helped move the 2700 out of a park in St. Albans WV in 1986. It was going to Canton Ohio to be restored but unfortunately it wasn't to be. I feel now it should have remained there, at least it would have been in better shape than it is now.
Charlotte Boggess what's the status of the locomotive right now because I noticed that all the flues are out of the locomotive as well as the cab is completely striped?
This video is all I know about the locomotives present condition.
They just finished doing a pretty nice cosmetic restoration on this engine.
That's really cool and a great piece of History 👍☮️
Sweet! this is in Dennison! Im in Phila. Too those of you that say hes wrong about the polar express, hes not.
hes not talking about the steam engine, in the winter, Dennison depot runs a "polar express" , just a special passenger train, and that's what they call it.
3:45 that train has an automatic stoker! Cool! You don't see many steam engines with those. For those who don't know what that is, it is a mechanism that automatically feeds coal from the tender into the firebox.
Trainzguy 2472 Do you mean you don't see many operational steam locomotives with stoker's? Many classes of locomotives had them. But there are not many running now that have them or they have been converted to oil like the UP engines. They weren't automatic either. The fireman still had to control where the coal went and how fast it was feed on the fire. They also hat to hand fire the areas the jets couldn't get the coal.
There’s no such thing as an “automatic” stoker. It still is manually controlled by the fireman. It doesn’t just magically go off when the fire needs it to.
Oh that’s cool
@John S It all needs to be cut for scrap asap.
2700 looks like a C&O Kanawha class. I had to laugh when you said "real train next to it". What do you think that steam locomotive is, artificial?
I think he meant a working train
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Technically, they're all artificial.
@@mclovin2155 Not really, in as much as there are no naturally occurring locomotives in the wild with the purpose these were designed for.
I went to Dennison Ohio back in 2015 to see the polar express train and I remember seeing 2700. I asked a employee at the station (down the road from 2700) why it was there abandoned. The employee told me that 2700 was going to be restored but it never happened. In my opinion they should restore it and use it for the polar express train.
WTF??!?!!! ... these things are so rare and so beautiful and so prized, how can anyone just let this sit and rot like that ... that's a damn crime!
if its still there I really hope a museum takes it in
they should restore it and let it pull the polar express itself that would pull alot more people too
It would be cool to be restored, but Pere Marquette 1225 up here in Michigan was the actual locomotive use to film the 'Polar Express". Id still love to see It run
Because it's probably broken beyond repair and would cost even more trying to maintain it through revenue service?
Do you not think logistically before you comment?
Costa I'VE SEEN IN THE INTERNET WORSE BRITISH LOCOS GO BACK INTO SERVICE
The guy who shot this video should do a follow-up... Some great information below on the current status of the steam "locomotive". I really appreciated and found interesting many of the comments and history behind this locomotive...
Sitting in Dennison,Ohio Near the Dennison Depot . The Restoration Process has slowed to a snail's pace due to lack of funds and volunteers.
Its a Baldwin 2-8-4 S-3 Class type steam locomotive, it was built in 1931 by the Baldwin locomotive works, and It weighed 450,000 pounds
The actual one from the movie
@@tylergehring7879 false information
You got everything wrong. Don't say shit unless you know it
I honestly like the way steam engines look better then the newer trains
Try to imagine how this monster was built, what a project it must have been!
fascinating this video ,what a giant of a train! very powerful indeed,loved that haunting horn sound ,would have been fabulous to be sitting on board.
That's not actually the polar express locomotive. The polar express locomotive is Pere Marquette #1225.
The4014Gamer ForTheWin the polar express is in usa
Unstoppable Triple 777 Typical American. Too proud to even realize Pere Marquette is an American steam train
That's more like a C&O Greenbrier! That engine should at least be sheltered. But, nvm, I don't think anyone wants to restore her.
The4014Gamer ForTheWin Well, according to the ‘know it all’ in the movie the Polar Express is a “Baldwin 2-8-4”, but we all know that doesn’t exist. And yes, the 1225 has been declared the official Polar Express.
The4014Gamer ForTheWin THAT'S BIG FAXTS 💯,
The train used in Polar Express was modeled after the one that runs in Michigan and is operational,not rusting along side the tracks somewhere. There are even Polar Express tours at christmas time. The town is Durand Mi. You can look it up on the web. That is sad seeing that train sitting exposed to the elements never to run again. Eventually it will be removed and scrapped. The hot box is removed from that train,gives you a great view of the steam pipes. what a shame seeing it rust away.
What an amazing footage you got here loved it! I agreed with one of your followers, since the second I saw the train, I said that train looks like a train from a movie. Who knows if this was the actual train they used, guess we won't.. Thx for this amazing share..
The real polar express is the Pere Marquette 1225 Berkshire class steam locomotive...if the people who watched this video knew that
Straight outta the movie The Train, with Burt Lancaster". 🚂💨
I feel like some facts are in order. C&O 2700 was the first C&O K-4 Kanawha built. The engine has a completely different face than the "Polar Express" (Pere Marquette Berkshire 1225). However, mechanically they are very similar engines. Will this engine run? No, as there's less interest in the area and 3 other locomotives of this type are under mechanical restoration (Nickel Plate Road 763, C&O 2716 and C&O 2789). Is this engine abandon? No, it got a very large cosmetic restoration this year. All missing cosmetic parts were replaced.
Lastly, the shot at 5:22 should interest more people than it does. It shows that all of the boiler tubes have been pulled. There's also a removed fitting, as light is entering the center of the boiler. This does not speak good things about its condition. While the engine looks pretty, I doubt it will run unless something large changes.
Ok I get the point yes it's there are alot of good lookin Engines out there ask yourself this do you and your friends have what it takes to reBuild from the ground up?
2:50 The railroad's police department ("the employees") feels like citing or arresting you. Trespassing on railroad property is not taken lightly.
But still, super cool video. I wish they could make it look nice and put it on display.
Excellent trespassing...nice shots
what because he was under the firebox lol
what because he was under the firebox and in the cab
I was announced this month that this k-4 2-8-4 The Chesapeake & Ohio Steam Engine No. 2700, stored at the Dennison Railroad Depot Museum, is finally being restored.
This steam locomotive is a C&O Kanawha type. It has been passed from owner to owner in hope of restoration. Removed parts were never recovered, however a group of dedicated preservationists have recently cosmetically restored it and placed it on display. She probably has a good future, at least as a display piece.
This is the 2700 C&O K-4 Kanawha at Dennison Ohio.
omg I love this
thank you so much x
Your not exactly wrong this is a 2-8-4 Berkshire except it's an old Chesapeake and Ohio K4 Kanawa and the 1225 that is the polar express was a Pere Marquette N-1
Great comments ! the C&O did not call them Berkshire, but they ARE a sister engine to the 1225 , the 2 8 4 is the key, that is the wheel arrangement for those " non-railfan " or the young'uns :) The concept that these can be "retrofitted" to other than Full Steam for display is a slap though . . . After being up close and personal with 1225 a year ago, - THERE IS NOTHING that will ever compare or simulate this much machinery slowly and SILENTLY inching its way past you as it pulls into a siding to switch or stop for a lunch break (like 1225 does ) I MEAN NO Sound at all - just a tiny hiss once in a while ...& the tracks creaking under her weight . . and then she comes to life and opens up on her way out ! HELL YEAH ! Awesome day ! Check out the Steam Railroad Institute in Owasso Michigan for 1225 and tour rides on the live steam runs. They also interface with the Fort Wayne folks who run the 765 Nickleplate Road Berkshire . Other Steam umits still around - UPs Challenger and Big Boy, a Mountain out in Montana I believe and a few Shay engines around yet . There are others but look up Steam Engine in your state to find your local details. Happy Hunting !
They aren't even sisters. They're only similarities are that they're steam and they're 2-8-4's.
cool video man i like this that a old train
Love it. Thank you :)
That Polar Express train looks like it was used in some mo-cap portions of the movie, because the movie is basically all mo-cap.
Although I'm sure you meant no harm, standing on railroad property is rather frowned upon by many of their employees. That was a beautiful steam engine. Ill bet she was a mighty beast in her day that pulled tons of freight all over the place. Sad to see her just sitting there left to die after serving her owners so well.
As long as some vandal doesntt come along and destroy it and the rust doesn't get too bad, it can be restored. Be a thing of beauty seeing it run again
What a neat find. In my state if you are on or within the railroad right of way of a used section of track they arrest you and fine you, no questions asked. You were so lucky to be able to get that footage.
+J Vatell, Wow really? lol u saw how random it was. Thanks for commenting. Ya if ur quick enough usually u can avoid the people who want to ask questions ha. Thanks bud.
J Vatell So ask the RR permission to enter their property.
The railroad police don't play, that's for sure. I'm sure the people in the other train didn't view you as a threat, but you were trespassing. I'm sure they have that train under surveillance. Hey, thanks for the vid
that also how i lost my best friend in 2013. his whole personality changed. and there abandoned houses on ever street in Detroit Michigan and many without a job. I'd even build a lunch cafeteria so no one left to waste gas to go get lunch a lot easier only if I won the lottery I would restore all railroad equipment including switches and signals along with coaches and freight cars diesels and electric locomotives and rail speeders and rail trucks. and go across america and Canada and mexico untill i go global there is no reason these locomotives can not have a purpose specially in this decade when we need our help we can get. thank you For your time
+Joey Pincombe Thank u for sharing.. I hope u do win, remember u can't win if u don't play! =)
The steam locomotive pictured is a Chesapeake and Ohio 2-8-4. Although this is a Berkshire type, some railroads called steam engines by a different name. The C&O called this type a Kanawha. Similarly, the New York Central called their Mountain types, Mohawks and their Northerns were called Niagara. The big screw inside the coal bunker of the tender is a stoker. It would take two men to shovel coal on this coal hungry beast so they invented the stoker. The largest portion of a tender is full of water to feed the boiler. Many of the rods that connect the pistons to the wheels were removed. Some were removed by thieves but a few were removed to allow the railroads to tow it to its present location. The reason this loco will not be restored to opeerating condition is money. The Union Pacific railroad is presently restoring a steam loco that is about twice the size as the 2700 and it will cost them at least a million bucks and that engine had most of its parts still intact. Sadly the best that can be expected for 2700 is a cosmetic restoration. Jerry
If it wasn't for the different wheel set i would say it an 2-6-6-2 Mallet articulated locomotive. One is in huntington west virgina and i go and see every chance i get.only 1 of 2 of that class left,one in huntington and the second one that was in Russell ky.the town next to mine i use to climb on it when i was little and think i was engineer is being restore as we speak.im glad that both are being or have been restore and i hope this beauty does as well
So sad to see all it's guts stripped out and missing so much off of it. Looks like anything and everything you could pull off of it with a basic Craftsmen set of tools has been taken. Hopefully the club or organization that owns it now will look after it and restore it cosmetically. "Stuffed and Mounted" is better than derelict and calling to the torches like it is in the video. Maybe you can follow up with it if they ever make any progress on the old engine.
Murica is like a scrapyard everywhere you go. Abandoned stuff everywhere.
Where was this at? does anyone know where it is now? I remember this actual locomotive when I was a kid, it sat in Canton, Ohio.
C&O K4 Kanawha...........none run today as of now, one is in for being repaired but is going to be repainted Southern 2716(Which heavily ticks me off), I'd love to see C&O steam run again.
She's not abandoned. In fact, she has been cosmetically restored and looks so much better now.
It just needs some repairs, repainting, & refueling and it will be as good as new. 🚂
nice video & EMD S40-2 on that lead locomotive
SD 40-2 bookends. Thats cool!
Cosmetically restored several years ago. Looks like new
That engine was going to be restored by the Ohio Central in the early 2000's but plans fell through and now it sits here...
It's not abandoned, it's on display at the Dennison depot in Dennison, Oh. It just recently got a cosmetic restoration thanks to a grant from the State of Ohio.
Chesapeake And Ohio # 2700, a 2-8-4 berkshire. Have they done anything out of it yet?
i have lionel steam engines there loud heavy and pull heavy cars with no trouble but a real one i just respect the people that ran them really hard work to keep them running god bless them if it wasnt for trains the economy would be sunk
Poor Berkshire, I would love to restore that
Wow SD40-2 3306 Was pulling passenger cars and a steam locomotive! Wow!!
If you look at some more recent pictures online, this engine has been cosmetically restored sometime last year
C&O 2700!!!!! OMG THE FIRST C&O KANAWHA OH MY GOSH
2716 Productions chill bro
2716 Productions typical foamer jesus fucking christ
What Short Line railroad is that in the Genesis and Wyoming paint scheme?
TexasRailfan21 The Ohio Central Railroad.
TRAIN SHIPS well I never! I guess Genesis and Wyoming bought the railroad from Jerry Jacobson
Not a train - A locomotive. It has been stripped of just about everything necessary to make it run. Looking inside the FIRE BOX - not the steam engine. Nice shot of the screw mechanism for the automatic stoker. Also shot of the fire tubes (Maybe). Too bad you couldn't get more of the exterior. Seems like it has been stripped of many parts. You did a nice job of exploration. especially in view of the RR people nearby.
"Abandoned" must be the most misused word on TH-cam these days. 2700 was retired by 1956 by the C&O. She was placed on display in a park in Charleston, WV for many years, before being moved to St. Albans, WV in the 1970s. She was moved around several more times during the 80s, and finally ended up in Dennison in the early 1990s. The depot museum is trying to get the funds together to cosmetically restore 2700. It costs a fortune to even 'pretty up' a steam locomotive, let alone for operation. SHE'S NOT ABANDONED. It just takes a lot of coin to make one of these look nice, something not easily done for a museum with limited funds.
This locomotive is the Chesapeake and Ohio's K4 kanawha examples is C&O 2716 the famous C&O partly excursion star than C&O greenbriar 614 but the road no. Is 2700 and the other K4 kanawha's road no. Is 2716 so its an sister locomotive
Holy shit. A ABANDONED BERKSHIRE! Where is it I LOVE Berkshires and I love abandoned things!
its a kanawha not a berkshire
I would love to take things like this and restore them.
Hello Illinois Railway Museum?
So thats how it works! I did not know there was a worm gear in the tender
Trainman46 there isn't always.
This locomotive is a 2-8-4 "Berkshire" like the Polar Express steam locomotive, but it's not actually the one it is based on. PMRR 1225 is the basis for the Polar Express.
Nice C&O Kanawha
where is it sitting at?
Where is this steam engine? And does it still exist?
Someone needs to acquire that engine because it's the first of the 2-8-4 Kanawha type steam locomotives built by Alco it should belong in a museum rather than leave to rust and decay
I hope this engine would find a home some where soon this is sad seeing an steam locomotives left to rust what happened to the locomotive after it was found
This is actually apart of a museum keeping chessipeak and Ohio 2700 outside just rusting away I mean not the best place to keep this kind of engine hopefully someone will restore it
Ikr I saw a very old passenger car from one of those
Google Map 615 Center St, Dennison, Ohio and see a much better looking #2700 in September, 2018.
Not really abandoned as it is on railroad property and is fairly well known in the railroad community, it's just really old and run down.
It's ashame too, as 2700 was the flagship of a once great class of steam locomotives that operated all over the C&O, unfortunately she now sits collecting rust.
If there doing a poaler express special next to the real poaler express, then why are they using a diesel locomotive?
Polar Express (2004) *18 YEARS LATER*
Um dude your trespassing!! I’m surprised they didn’t run ya off!
To The 'Narrator' that is a steam engine, or a Locomotive, not a train. A train is what a Locomotive becomes when it pulls the cars that turn it into a train. The train is what is rolling by pulled by its locomotive.
I know this steam locomotive, I saw this locomotive with my uncle during my trip at SugarCreek Ohio while I was visiting at Age Of Steam Roundhouse Museum
once i win the lottery I'll take it up here for full rebuild and fully restored then sold to the Baltimore and ohio railroad tourist museum from here in Detroit Michigan at the old Michigan state fare grounds with plenty of space and a building to house the equipment. its better then loseing our country to out sourcing and many without a job. were are. very close to the next great depression since 1929
Yeah you said there and wait for the lottery Joey, jackasss, lol. Always blaming the immigrants for your problems. Loser.
I hate when people say they'll restore a locomotive one day or something like that. Bro, you're not gonna restore it. You have no idea how it works, or how much money it costs.
They cost a fortune to restore.
At least Big Boy will be running again.
Where was this video taken?
where is this berkshire?
its a locomotive not a train.
I've heard that they are going to restore this C&O Berkshire locomotive like its sister C&O 2716
its not abandoned, its being worked on. and the *polar express train* is the Pere Marquette 1225, the engine the polar express is based after, thus the polar express train is not the correct name to say.
About every railroad museum that has a steam excursion (and some with diesels) have their own polar express they run. Just because Pere Marquette's one is the one they designed the movie from one doesn't mean that it's the only one. Heck, if you think about it even 1225 could hardly truly be called a polar express because it doesn't go to a pole, lol.
Rebel9668 but its the train they use for a design for the book and the move I'm calling it the real polar express besides it even has the number 1225 on it and at Christmas the polar express ride they really use this train and you ride it to the north pole and I'm not letting you ruin my dreams about riding that train
It's a Lima Berkshire 2-8-4. These were the maids of all works in the eastern states. They were originally for the Chesapeake and Ohio Road. I think 3 eastern RR companies had em.
Where is this at
Its a berkshire, but the wrong one, 1225 is the polar express engine
Cool! I live in dennison. (If anyone wonders this is dennison Ohio)
Now we can fix it name it polar express and make a live action film, i wish
Looks like a Berkshire to me, which is what the Polar Express actually is.
the abandoned train looks like doc browns train from back to the future 3. cool video mate 👍
+Upalvl omg ur right! I didnt even think about it GREAT COMMENT bro thanks!!
Not even close, the train in back to the future is a 4-6-0 steam engine, the one in this video is a 2-8-4 berishere type steam locomotive like the polar express. This train has more in common with the polar express, than the Train from BTTF 3
The Back to the Future engine was the Hooterville Cannonball, re-decorated to fit the movie.
Its not even close and every 2 year old who looks at this now knows the wrong fact
upalevel productions it was a 4-6-0 this is a 2-8-4 berkshire not close buddy
Why is that rotting and not being saved?
The real polar express is actually located in owaso Michigan numbered as the #1225 still running under steam power.
That engine is a C&O kanawha
No, It is a Berkshire
DSFCO Films its both. C&O just had a different way of arranging parts on the boiler.
Ohhhh Thats why around the cab it looks different
If i had the money id go out there myself an fix it right there on the spot then find away to drive it out of there somehow
Tim Carlile it would take a few years and you would have to have a shed to work on it in
The real polar express is the Pere marquet
an ex-c&o 2-8-4 kanawha just sitting there rusting away... shameful... where was this?
Where was this?
the car in 5:58 looks like a Budd RDC with out the hump on top
Personally I never found large piles of rust all that appealing.
I am pretty sure that’s a kanawhana Berkshire
WTF! Send me the address for where these are because I can repear it and get it back up and running again as soon as possible.
Can you give me a few million dollars then? Obviously you must have more money than brains!
I don't give people money by the way I have all of the New stuff now so if you don't want me to come and fix them then I can just make 5 in 1 year the same size so just forget it I will just make 5 of my own and open my own railway and stations of my own so stuff you
David Thompson your gonna make 5 in 1 year? ROFLMAO! Ok...you go ahead and make 5 of them and build your own railroad and then we will see...
I've got 62 people that are helping me with the job so and I'm starting tonight so shut the fuck up
You think that we eat your brand of cereal? Whats it called again? Oh yeah, thats it...Stoopidhead, the cereal for the cerebrally challenged!
Good luck with that anyways...keep us posted!
I say that knowing after you are finished here we will never hear about it again.
By the way, just what would you call this railroad? What will you haul? Where will it be located?
Were is this at?