Audio: C&O 614 Highball after repairing the stoker 6/8/97

Somewhere between Central Valley, NY and the Moodna Viaduct a piece of debris jammed the stoker screw. After the crew worked on the problem with an acetylene torch, the train got back under way.
Recorded 6/8/97 from the open car "Sound and Fury" on two tracks of a Tascam Porta 07 4-track cassette recorder using a Crown SASS-P microphone.

[@LeonardFShanerJR]

They never repair the Stoker, Ross told me this him self. He took the train over Ottisville grade and then the Two NJT Diesels hooked on and took the train the rest of the way. Also Fireman Chris Bost told me he help shovel coal into the fire box. What happen with the stoker was this. Someone left a coal rake in the coal bunker and the stoker twisted the rake around the stoker screw. Hope that helps, Len.

[@edwinsinclair9853]

This sounds like the trip to home from Port Jervis on 10/12/1997. Remember it well. We had two NJT diesels on the headend from Otisville to Hoboken.

[@maxwellsteam5810]

On Mark I Video's 614 Return of a Thoroughbred DVD, They used too much coal than expected, so Ross Rowland had two choices, skip the Photo Runby's at Port Jervis and run back to Hoboken, or Run the Runby's and make it over the grade. Ross did the Runby's and made it over Ottisville and Diesels were put on the rest of the way to Hoboken.

[@edwardmoul1562]

Had a question. Do you have the whole trips from start to finish? I would be more than willing to pay you for all of this audio. I was on every trip doing audio myself and didn't turn out anything like yours. Let me know. Thanks

[@leslie0965]

great sound!!

[@yankinga]

Not this trip. We were never assisted by the diesels, not even on the return to Hoboken. I have audio of this run from Port Jervis up to Guymard, but unbeknownst to me one channel had cut out because of a dirty channel selector switch on the tape deck. The trip where the diesels pulled her back to Hoboken was one of the other trips that I chased and videoed.

[@maxwellsteam5810]

Did you hit 80 in this tape?

[@yankinga]

I don't think on this cut, but we were at track speed of 79 MPH a number of times during the run.

[@SteamKing2160]

Conrail6370 They mentioned that during a Mark I Video that the auxiliary tender got clogged.