Chessie! Chessie! Chessie!

We recently had another discussion regarding the Chessie with some good information:

https://ogrforum.com/t...57#40849086768288857

Bob 

I can play........

And in my world Chessie still rides the rails today.........

I love Chessie. My Great Grandfather worked for B&O and my uncle worked for C&O.

We love cats.....so it all fits!!! I miss seeing those units roll down the track.

Hey Ralph.

I Says "I gots the fever too"

Problem is it tough to find this road name at the train shows around here.

Thanks for sharing the video...

Not mine, but looking for owner.

Bill

I bought all 3 road numbers of MTH's PS-1 equipped GP38-2s in Chessie colors.  So pretty, and will look great triple heading a long train, once I get them converted to TMCC (2 came to me as non-working, aka project, locomotives.).  My grandfather is who I got my train loving genes from, and he had gotten a hold of a bed sheet set of Chessie the cat sheets from the sleepers.  I grew up using them.  The sheets are long gone, but I still have the pillow case, and use it as my printer dust cover.  I also have some prints on the wall of Chessie, her old man, and her kittens.

My deviation from transition era O&W...

Loved the video, and all the great Chessie pics.

I've got a few cats sitting around here.

Only on the test track, but thats okay! The 8463 facing the camera direction was my first engine I ever purchased (younger than 15, but I dont remember exactly when). The other I bought off of ebay to turn into a dummy (e-unit problems), but instead, I cleaned it from top to bottom and runs like new!

You can see how dirty it was here (the bottom one).

Great video and pics by all.  By far my favorite railroad.  I can't wait until I get some Chessie's of my own.

Ron

You made me dig deep for this one.

I bought these years ago, probably at an Allentown meet.  I took the E units out, got one dallee board and had hardwired the two of them together.  They probably hadn't seen daylight in 4 or 5 yrs prior to this post.  Anyway I had to disconnect them from each other for storage.  The one unit fired right up in reverse only.  The other just sat there, I may have disconnected the power lead when I was get ready to store them.

Well I guess this will go into the eventual to do list column, a real tether and a horn system would make these a fine set for public display running, might have to finally change one of the cab numbers though...

I also have other engines in chessie but don't have picture's GP38,GP38,GM50 (GP7),U36C,SD40-2, SD9, 2-8-4 Steam.

Sorry for the video quality.

Have not run these much....forgot I had them!!!!