The 1977 Chessie Steam Special with Reading 2101, "The B&O's 8,000 Mile Birthday Party" 1977
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- The B&O's 8,000 Mile Birthday Party is a 1977 Promotional Film produced by Avanti Productions that documents the 1977 Season of the Chessie Steam Special (the 1st of 2 seasons of the Chessie Steam Special, that crisscrossed the Chessie System Railroad to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.) pulled by Reading T1 2101. 2101 Pulled the American Freedom Train of 1975-76 & the Chessie Steam Special of 1977-78. On March 26th, 1979, The 2101 was damaged in a roundhouse fire in Russell, Kentucky & was traded to the B&O Railroad Museum for C&O 614 (which went onto to run excursions in 1980-81, Pulling Freight Trains in January of 1985 & pulling excursions over NJT Trackage in 1996, 1997 & 1998. 614 is now on display at the C&O Railway Heritage Center In Clifton Forge, Virginia.) & 2101 was placed on display at the B&O Museum. 2101 is currently in the process of undergoing a cosmetic restoration, due to be completed by 2026. This is a much better quality copy of this film sourced from an old DVD set from the early 2000s.
Nickel Plated Productions does not lay claim to the ownership & copyright of this film. Ownership & copyright belongs to Avanti Productions. This has been uploaded in an effort to preserve the historic contents of this video.
RIP William. Your intelligence with the C&O will always be the fallen flag never forgotten.
Specifically William Francis Howes Jr.
One of the finest railroad films I've seen. So beautifully produced.
Great video
its great to see this film again
The song is pretty fire ngl
Class 1's today, except for UP only care about the bottom line and shareholders and their stock performance. NS did host steam excursions again from Sept. 2011-May 2017. You can ride behind T-1 #2102 at the Reading and Northern again. The #2101 is at the B&O museum in Baltimore and is painted in the AFT scheme. CSX hosted steam excursions like on the New River Train through 1994 then was anti-steam for a long while. Now, they are more willing to tow steam locomotives that need moving on their own wheels like what they did with the C&O 2716 in Kentucky. The newly merged CPKC will run their Empress 4-6-4 from Calgary to Mexico City next April with stops for the public to view it, no excursions.
Is there any more footage of Reading #2101 on the Chessie Steam special?
Unfortunately this was before video tape equipment became widely available. It was also very expensive for several years.
Seen Ole Ross back last fall he was in goshen running 611.
Whats funny some of them younger folks that worked on this crew are getting close to 70 now.