Steam & Excursion > Sometimes There Are Wires - Chessie 614

It is July 11, 1981 in Garrett, Pennsylvania. I had handed a camera to my good friend John Woodworth to get a different perspective of Chessie System 614. Here is Chessie 614 passing the ex-B&O passenger station. What a beautiful image although sometimes there are wires...
Bob
P.S. Please don't try to remove the wires with photo editing.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/16/24 02:41 by refarkas.

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refarkas Wrote:
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> It is July 11, 1981 in Rockwood, Pennsylvania. I
> had handed a camera to my good friend John
> Woodworth to get a different perspective of
> Chessie System 614. Here is Chessie 614 passing
> the ex-B&O passenger station. What a beautiful
> image although sometimes there are wires...
> Bob
> P.S. Please don't try to remove the wires with
> photo editing.

Why not? I wouldn't mind seeing  an "alternate view" without all the wires. It certainly is a VERY fine action photo. 

Soon, those wires will be gone + poles..
Maybe they're gone, by now !

The wires add interest, and a unique view of the the way RRs
used to operate.

Well composed.

​W.

​( I like the clothes-line, by the pick-up!)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/15/24 13:29 by wcamp1472.

Studding the photo closer, is she stopped?

18 years later, in September, 1999, a westbound empty coal train is at Garrett, which is the correct location.
The pole remains, but the wires have gone, and so have the CPL signals.(and the station building).
Don French/WW Jenkins photo
 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/15/24 17:35 by bigsavage.

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" ...is she stopped?"

Good point..
I noted that the Baker valve gear is set for Full-Stroke 'Reverse'.

The Baker valve gear part leaning full-rearward is called the 'Yoke'.
Near-vertical Yoke would be 'minimum' valve travel,
And leaning forward, would be full-stroke, 'Forward' setting 
by the engineer.

I suspect that all motion is stopped, when the picture was taken.

The port opening-point is constant, the valve gear gives the engineer
control of the port closing timing, related by the rotation of the drivers.
The engineer can control the pressure delivered to the pistons ( via the throttle)
the intended direction ( power reverse) and modify the strength of the
power duration ( reduced admission-cutoff), as the piston travels.

What's not seen is the heat-preservation for the full length 
of the piston stroke.  Superheating is benefical because of the expansive 
pressure, even when the in-flow ( "hooked-up")  is of short duration.
The POWER is still retained, because the expansion volume is 
limited.... the heat has more work to do....

With a heavy train, the engine runs at its hottest, with a powerful,
steady draft up the stack.  After about 10 minutes of a 50-mph 
track speed abd draft, with a 'heavy-heel'  across the back 20% of the grates,
you're burning coal at a slow, steady rate and the brick arch is
3000F, and incandescent...  a white-hot fire.

Boiler pressure is just under the setting of the safety valves,
and superheated steam to the pistons is about 700F --- leaving the 
stack at about 300F

​W.
 



Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 04/17/24 12:26 by wcamp1472.

Well I like it...wires and all.
Ross might complain, but I'm not.
/Ted

Beautiful photo of our ferry move that day. The way you can tell it was a one way ferry move is the 2 baggs on the head end .One of them was a storage car for all kinds of stuff ( lots of paper towels, toilet paper, Operation Life Saver phamplets, cleaning supplies, non perishable snack car supplies etc. ) and we only took it when we were doing a one way trip to a new operations HQ. We operated out of 31 different CSX towns from Miami in the South to Detroit/Chicago in the North and were constanvtly on the move.

    Thanks, Ross Rowland 

I like the photo with the wires as this is the way it used to be back in those good-ole-days when the Chessie System operated both steam and diesel excursion trips.
John in White Marsh, Maryland

The pick-up truck in photo 1 almost looks like its in Chessie colors.
jb

I love poles and wires on a railroad.  The number of them gave a strong clue as to how important that track was.

Location is Garrett, PA, not Rockwood.

Thanks to pennsy3750 for the real location.
Bob

Thanks to bigsavage for the "Later" image.
Bob

Great pictures. 

I prefer reality, pictures that show the real situation. Not what someone wants to see and goes about altering what is real.

I’d look through wires all day long just to see this locomotive operate. I’ve only seen it cold in WV. Great photo thanks for posting.

Randy in PHX

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