Climax 9 Debut at Cass Scenic Railroad

For their 2019 Rail Heritage Weekend, the Cass Scenic Railroad staged two major firsts. The star of this year's show was the return of Climax 9, built originally for the Moore Keppel & Company in 1919. After several years in the restoration shop, the 9 was restored back to operation under her own power!

The first run took place on new trackage too, over the old Greenbrier Subdivision of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Following a devastating flood in 1985 that washed out the track, the railroad has slowly been rebuilt to eventually carry trains alongside the Greenbrier River to the town of Durbin. This photo freight train would be the farthest north a train had traveled on this line.

[thunderbird]

It's alive! It's finally alive! After EIGHTEEN YEARS of work! Well done and congratulations to all at Cass!

[ArkansasLocomotiveWorks]

I remember seeing this thing in the shops so long ago. Great to see it running!

[PapawsDadillacOEMplus]

Cass loves standing on the whistles of all of their trains.

[hugothemusicfantraincaptur]

2019 was great year of steam trains returned to service after restoration.

[mattschoder]

I love it! Cass Scenic is a fantastic place to visit. The locomotives are great fun to watch and listen to. They work HARD. Finally, the scenery is beautiful. If you haven't been there, you are missing one of the best steam locomotive operations in the country.

[tristanrailproductions]

This Is so Fantastic! I Saw 9 Right Brfore she was complete and did A Video On Climax 9, during her Restoration! Cass is a Fantastic Railroad! Live the Locomotives! Just want to Say Fantastic Video!

[bj]

The Climax is just a cool piece of machinery to watch in operation! On my bucket list to visit Cass someday!

[Bigmac_h]

Finally someone upload content of 9 it took 4 days and the only videos on Facebook but finally

[JohnDoe-jgsv]

My childhood revolved around Cass, as a native of Greenbank I am so happy to see the climax up and running again.

[joefrew]

Finally, the Climax no. 9 is alive and the once flooded abandoned subline is restored.

[paulsadowski]

Wow nice footage! When I saw this engine 5 years ago it was in pieces. I am glad to see it back together and running. Thanks for sharing.

[dakotaroberts]

I've been watching and waiting for this locomotive to be steamed up. I like how the natural wood details look on it, they have done a great job.

[willhorowitz]

About time that thing was done! But none the less I’m glad another climax is back in service.

[trainman]

This is soo amazing! Cudos to the guys that took on this project and now they have all 3 types of geared locomotives.

[nathancorcoran]

This is a good video. It's happy to see Cass Scenic Railroad Climax # 9 being restored back into it's operation.

[thegreatcanadianlumberjack]

The BC forestry Museum has two Climax engines Hill crest lumber company #9 and #2 it’s so neat to see one in action and hard to belive this took 18 years to restore this one.

[TrainWizardProductions]

Cannot wait to see it myself during the Trains Magazine and Sigma photo charter in November. Great video!

[MrNJT]

It's so good to see her back! Great video!!!

[garagegamer]

I was born and live in the city where all climax locomotives were built. My house is a mile from the old factory. It's wonderful to see apart of my hometown heritage running and working as it was made to do. It's to bad the historical museum in town only has a static display of one that hasn't run in decades.

[rjas]

Great video, thanks, showing a remarkable locomotive - never seen one like that before and it has a fascinating beat to it. With Shays playing tunes as well, who could ask for more! Best wishes, Bob K.