“Every time I come back, for the next few weeks, I think I want to become a train engineer at 40 years old,” Smith said. They go generally every year, during Labor Day. Smith has been a fan of steam since he started going to Cass, W.Va., to see locomotives with his parents. Smith said it was "awesome" to see in person. Smith and a few others, some of whom had come from Frederick, Md., trying to find a place that was not already crowded, waited for about an hour at a spot south of Chambersburg and eventually saw the steam engine pass through about 15 minutes before Gress in Greencastle. He spent the nights leading up to the event trying to figure out the engine’s schedule. Steve Smith works in Chambersburg and told his boss he was going to take some time to see the steam engine pass through. Gress said the two were actually married on a train - that is how into trains his wife is. Gress and his wife have taken their kids to different local train stations. The closest you could get to the tracks was within about 6 feet, he said. Gress said there were about 20 to 30 people in Greencastle who had come to see the steam engine, which passed by around 12:45 p.m. I think that would have been more theatrical, I guess, but it was still really neat to see.” “It was being pulled by another train, though.
“It’s one of the last passenger steam engines,” Gress said.
Gress said his wife is the one who has an interest in old trains, but since she had to work and it was her birthday, he decided to head over to High Line and take a video. Tim Gress lives in Waynesboro and saw the steam engine pass by in Greencastle at the High Line Train Station. because it has that shroud around it,” Richardson said. “It’s one of the most beautiful ones in the U.S. He set up a camera close to the tracks near Burhans Boulevard and waited to see it pass by. Richardson had seen the steam engine a few times before it crossed through Hagerstown and thinks the Class J locomotive was restored some time in the mid-2010s. “You don’t often see them running coupled to anything else on the mainline. “You don’t often see steam trains running, well not under their own power,” Richardson said. Richardson has lived in the Hampstead, Md., area in Carroll County his entire life, and because where he lives borders train tracks, he has gotten interested in trains in the past couple years. Lucas Richardson, a student at Loyola Blakefield in Towson, finished his exams early so he traveled out to Hagerstown to see the steam engine. The steam engine, built in 1950, had been at the Strasburg Rail Road in Strasburg, Pa., for the last couple years, but on its way to Virginia, it passed through a number of cities and towns - including Chambersburg and Greencastle in Pennsylvania, and Hagerstown in Maryland. Being pulled by another train, the Norfolk & Western 611 steam locomotive sped past onlookers Thursday on its way to the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke.
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