Chesapeake and Ohio 2716

{{short description|Preserved American 2-8-4 locomotive (C&O K-4 class)}}

{{Infobox locomotive

| name = Chesapeake and Ohio 2716

| bgcolor = 000000

| color = FFDF00

| powertype = Steam

| image = File:C&O -2716 2-8-4 P1020428.jpg

| alt =

| caption = C&O No. 2716 on display at the Kentucky Railway Museum in November 2013

| designer =

| builder = American Locomotive Company (ALCO)

| ordernumber =

| serialnumber = 70865

| buildmodel =

| builddate = December 1943

| totalproduction =

| rebuilder =

| rebuilddate =

| numberrebuilt =

| whytetype = 2-8-4

| uicclass = 1′D2′ h2

| gauge = {{track gauge|ussg}}

| leadingdiameter = {{convert|33|in|cm|3|abbr=on}}

| driverdiameter = {{convert|69|in|m|3|abbr=on}}

| trailingdiameter = {{convert|36|in|cm|3|abbr=on}} (Lead)
{{convert|43|in|cm|3|abbr=on}} (Trail)

| tenderdiameter = {{convert|36|in|cm|3|abbr=on}}

| minimumcurve = {{convert|288|ft|m|0|abbr=on}} radius/ 20°

| wheelbase = {{convert|93|ft|2|in|m|2|abbr=on}} (Total)

| length = {{convert|105|ft|1+7/8|in|m|2|abbr=on}}

| width = {{convert|10|ft|10|in|m|2|abbr=on}}

| height = {{convert|15|ft|7+1/2|in|m|2|abbr=on}}

| axleload = {{convert|73,000|lb|ST|abbr=on}}

| weightondrivers = {{convert|292,000|lb|ST|abbr=on}}

| locoweight = {{convert|460,000|lb|ST|abbr=on}}

| tenderweight = {{convert|390000|lb|ST|abbr=on}}

| locotenderweight = {{convert|850000|lb|ST|abbr=on}}

| tendertype = 21-RG

| fueltype = Coal (to be converted to fuel oil)

| fuelcap = {{convert|30|ST}}

| watercap = {{convert|21000|usgal}}

| tendercap =

| sandcap =

| boiler = Fire Tube

| boilertype =

| pitch =

| diameterinside = {{convert|98|in|0|abbr=on}}

| lengthinside = {{convert|19|ft|m|0|abbr=on}}

| boilerpressure = {{convert|245|psi|MPa|2|abbr=on}}

| feedwaterheater = Worthington 5 1/2 SA
10,200 US gallon / hr capacity

| firearea = {{convert|90|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}

| tubearea =

| fluearea =

| tubesandflues = {{convert|4308|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}

| fireboxarea = {{convert|465|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}

| totalsurface = {{convert|4773|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}

| superheatertype = Type E

| superheaterarea = {{convert|1932|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}

| cylindercount = Two, outside

| cylindersize = {{convert|26|x|34|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}

| valvegear = Baker

| valvetype = Piston valves

| valvetravel = {{convert|8|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}

| valvelap = {{convert|1+11/16|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}

| valvelead = {{convert|3/16|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}

| maxspeed = {{convert|70|mph|kph|2|abbr=on}}

| poweroutput =

| tractiveeffort = {{convert|69350|lbf|kN|2|abbr=on}} (Engine)
{{convert|14000|lbf|kN|2|abbr=on}} (Booster)
{{convert|83350|lbf|kN|2|abbr=on}} (Total)

| factorofadhesion = 4.21 (Engine)
4.6 (Booster)

| trainheating = Steam heat

| locobrakes = Pneumatic, Schedule 8-ET

| locobrakeforce =

| trainbrakes = Pneumatic

| safety =

| operator = Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (1943–1956)
Southern Railway (leased from 1981–1982)
Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (leased from 1995–1996)
Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation (leased from 2021–present)

| operatorclass = K-4

| powerclass =

| numinclass = 17 of 90

| fleetnumbers = {{ubl|C&O 2716|SOU 2716|L&N 1992 {{small|(cosmetically)}}}}

| officialname =

| nicknames = Kanawha

| axleloadclass =

| locale = Eastern United States

| deliverydate = December 1943

| firstrundate =

| lastrundate =

| retiredate = 1956 {{small|(revenue service)}}
1982 {{small|(1st excursion service)}}
October 1996 {{small|(2nd excursion service)}}

| preservedunits = 1959

| restoredate = October 10, 1981 {{small|(1st restoration)}}
July 1996 {{small|(2nd restoration)}}

| scrapdate =

| currentowner = Kentucky Railway Museum
Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation (leased operator)

| disposition = Undergoing restoration to operating condition

| notes = References:{{Harvp|Drury|2015|p=109}}.

}}

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 2716 is a preserved class "K-4" 2-8-4 "Kanawha" (Berkshire) type steam locomotive built in 1943 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O). While most railroads referred to these 2-8-4 type locomotives as Berkshires, the C&O referred to them as Kanawhas after the Kanawha River, which flows through West Virginia. Used as a dual service locomotive, No. 2716 and its classmates served the C&O in a variety of duties until being retired from revenue service in 1956.

Donated to the Kentucky Railway Museum of New Haven, Kentucky in 1959, No. 2716 has been restored to operation in excursion service twice since its retirement from the C&O, first in 1981 for the Southern Railway's steam program until 1982, and again in 1996 for a few brief excursions for the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (FWRHS) in New Haven, Indiana. The locomotive is undergoing an extensive rebuild to operating condition for a third excursion career, under lease by the Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation.

History

=Revenue service and first retirement=

No. 2716 was the seventeenth member of 90 class "K-4" Kanawhas built for the C&O by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) and the Lima Locomotive Works (LLW) between 1943 and 1947.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=C&O 2716|url=https://www.kentuckysteam.org/co2716|publisher=Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp.|access-date=June 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190613154131/https://www.kentuckysteam.org/co2716|archive-date=June 13, 2019}} These locomotives were used to haul heavy freight trains, as well as fast passenger trains. After only thirteen years in revenue service, the C&O retired No. 2716 in 1956 in light of dieselization.{{Cite web|last=Gibson|first=Becca|date=July 26, 2019|title=Historic 450-ton locomotive heading to new home in Eastern Kentucky|url=https://www.wave3.com/2019/07/27/historic-ton-locomotive-heading-new-home-eastern-kentucky/|work=WAVE|access-date=July 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727140431/https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/fayette-county/article233110629.html|archive-date=July 27, 2019}} The C&O sold the majority of their Kanawhas for scrap, save for thirteen locomotives, including No. 2716. In May 1959, the locomotive was donated to the Kentucky Railway Museum (KRM) in New Haven, Kentucky, where it was left on display.{{Harvp|Wrinn|2000|p=54}}.

= Clinchfield restoration attempt =

By early 1979, the Clinchfield Railroad (CRR) operated a steam excursion program under the leadership of general manager Thomas D. Moore Jr., using 4-6-0 No. 1, but as per request of their parent company, the Family Lines, the CRR began searching for a larger steam locomotive to expand the program.{{Cite magazine |date=June 1979 |title=News & Editorial Comment - Tom's new engine |url=https://www.trains.com/trn/magazine/archive-access/trains-june-1979/ |url-access=limited |access-date=December 3, 2024 |magazine=Trains |publisher=Kalmbach Publishing |page=12 |volume=39 |issue=8}}{{Cite magazine |date=October 1979 |title=News & Editorial Comment - The Clinchfield Conclusion |url=https://www.trains.com/trn/magazine/archive-access/trains-october-1979/ |url-access=limited |access-date=December 3, 2024 |magazine=Trains |publisher=Kalmbach Publishing |pages=3-4 |volume=39 |issue=12}} The railroad subsequently reached an agreement with the KRM to lease and operate No. 2716, and in March 1979, the locomotive was towed to Marion, North Carolina to be operationally restored.{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Chris |date=April 17, 2019 |title=Clinchfield 800 will move C&O 2716 to restoration |url=https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/04/17-clinchfield-800-will-move-co-2716-to-restoration |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628160806/https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/04/17-clinchfield-800-will-move-co-2716-to-restoration |archive-date=June 28, 2019 |access-date=June 28, 2019 |work=Trains |publisher=Kalmbach Media}}{{Cite news |date=April 3, 1979 |title=Locomotive Museum Piece Coming Out Of Mothballs |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/danville-register-and-bee-co-2716-new-l/160203573/ |access-date=December 3, 2024 |work=Danville Register and Bee |page=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{efn|The CRR simultaneously attempted to lease and restore Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis 576, but its city of Nashville, Tennessee, owners decided against the proposal. The city subsequently changed their minds and negotiated with the Family Lines to lease and restore No. 576, but to no avail.}}

In May, as No. 2716 was being disassembled, crews encountered multiple mechanical problems inside the boiler.{{Cite magazine |date=August 1979 |title=Arrivals & Departures - Clinchfield Commotion |url=https://www.trains.com/trn/magazine/archive-access/trains-august-1979/ |url-access=limited |access-date=December 3, 2024 |magazine=Trains |publisher=Kalmbach Publishing |page=12 |volume=39 |issue=10}} Later that same month, the Family Lines cancelled the Clinchfield steam program and No. 2716's restoration, when Thomas Moore was forced to resign for participating in a scandal to defraud the CRR.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=November 16, 1981|title=Britton v. United States|url=https://www.leagle.com/decision/19811296566fsupp73011188|work=Leagle.com|access-date=June 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190614165434/https://www.leagle.com/decision/19811296566fsupp73011188|archive-date=June 14, 2019}} In late 1979, the CRR returned the partially-disassembled No. 2716 to the KRM, and they paid the museum some compensation cash for not reassembling the locomotive.{{Cite magazine |date=January 1980 |title=Arrivals & Departures - 2716 Annulled |url=https://www.trains.com/trn/magazine/archive-access/trains-january-1980/ |url-access=limited |access-date=December 3, 2024 |magazine=Trains |publisher=Kalmbach Publishing |page=10 |volume=40 |issue=3}}

=Southern excursion service and second retirement=

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In early 1980, No. 2716 was leased by the Southern Railway (SOU) to pull the longer and heavier passenger trains for their ever popular steam excursion program, serving as a replacement for Texas and Pacific 610 and Canadian Pacific 2839.{{Harvp|Wrinn|2000|p=55}}.{{Cite magazine |date=March 1980 |title=Arrivals & Departures - It's official |url=https://www.trains.com/trn/magazine/archive-access/trains-march-1980/ |url-access=limited |access-date=February 28, 2024 |magazine=Trains |publisher=Kalmbach Publishing |page=16 |volume=40 |issue=5}} The SOU sent No. 2716 to their steam locomotive workshop in Irondale, Alabama, where Master Mechanic Bill Purdie significantly altered the locomotive's appearance to appear as if the SOU had once owned the 2-8-4 type. No. 2716 was painted black with gold pinstriping, while the front smokebox plate was painted in a lighter graphite color.{{Harvp|Wrinn|2000|p=58}}. The headlight was moved from its pilot to the center of its smokebox door, decorated with brass flag holders, and a brass eagle ornament. Additionally, the locomotive had its bell swinging from the top of its smokebox and carried the round "SR" emblems on its air compressor shields.

After operating on a test run on October 10 and 11, 1981, No. 2716 pulled its first SOU excursions on October 17 and 18, running a round-trip from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Rockwood, Tennessee.{{Harvp|Wrinn|2000|p=115}}. In November 1981, No. 2716 pulled excursion trains in Alabama and Georgia. In April 1982, the locomotive resumed its excursion duties, pulling trains through North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. But three months later, a very inexperienced fireman damaged the locomotive's firebox, resulting No. 2716 to be taken out of excursion service for repairs and Nickel Plate Road No. 765, another 2-8-4, based in Indiana, was called into service as a replacement.{{Harvp|Wrinn|2000|pp=65-67}}.{{Harvp|Boyd|2014|p=137}}.

Following the merger between the Southern and the Norfolk and Western (N&W) railways to form the new Norfolk Southern Railway,{{Harvp|Wrinn|2000|p=61}}. No. 2716 was retired in favor of N&W No. 611 in 1982, along with N&W No. 1218 later on in 1987, serving as the main motive power for the steam program. It was put into storage at the Irondale workshop in 1985, after attempts to weld cracks in the firebox failed.{{Harvp|Wrinn|2000|p=74}}.

=Brief excursion service with FWRHS and third retirement=

After Norfolk Southern ended their steam program in late 1994, the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (FWRHS), the owner of NKP No. 765, reached an agreement with the Kentucky Railway Museum to sign a new lease to operate No. 2716.{{Harvp|Wrinn|2000|p=109}}.{{Cite magazine |last=Keefe |first=Kevin |date=October 1996 |title=Chesapeake & Ohio 2716 joins the ranks of big engines back in steam |url=https://www.trains.com/trn/magazine/archive-access/trains-october-1996/ |access-date=January 19, 2024 |magazine=Trains |publisher=Kalmbach Publishing |pages=16–17 |volume=56 |issue=10}} In January 1995, the locomotive was moved to the FWRHS' location in New Haven, Indiana, and work began to revert it to its C&O livery and to repair its firebox with new sheets and patches.{{Cite magazine |date=May 1995 |title=Railroad News Photos - Headed North |url=https://www.trains.com/trn/magazine/archive-access/trains-may-1995/ |url-access=limited |access-date=December 2, 2024 |magazine=Trains |publisher=Kalmbach Publishing |page=27 |volume=55 |issue=5}} By July 15, 1996, repairs on No. 2716 were completed, and the locomotive pulled a freight train on the Toledo, Peoria and Western (TP&W) around Logansport. On July 20-21, No. 2716 pulled some excursions on the TP&W and the Winamac Southern (WSRY) during the Logansport Iron Horse Festival.

The FWRHS created a schedule for No. 2716 to pull additional excursion trains in 1997, but all of them were cancelled, when the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) declined to allow the locomotive any flue extensions and ordered for new flues to be installed.{{Cite magazine |date=August 1997 |title=Preservation Points - C&O 2716 on the shelf |url=https://www.trains.com/trn/magazine/archive-access/trains-august-1997/ |url-access=limited |access-date=April 3, 2024 |magazine=Trains |publisher=Kalmbach Publishing |page=97 |volume=57 |issue=8}}{{Cite magazine |last1=Stephens |first1=Bill |last2=P. Keefe |first2=Kevin |date=May 1998 |title=Who's turning a wheel, and who isn't |url=https://www.trains.com/trn/magazine/archive-access/trains-may-1998/ |url-access=limited |access-date=April 3, 2024 |magazine=Trains |publisher=Kalmbach Publishing |page=43 |volume=58 |issue=5}} The FWRHS then decided to give up on operating No. 2716 and concentrate their efforts and investment on rebuilding No. 765. In February 2001, No. 2716 was towed back to the KRM, and the locomotive remained on static display there for the next sixteen years.{{Cite web|last=Rohdenburg|first=David T.|date=December 10, 2018|title=Steam group to celebrate 75th birthday for Chesapeake & Ohio locomotive|url=https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/10-steam-group-to-celebrate-75th-birthday-for-chesapeake-ohio-locomotive/|work=Trains|publisher=Kalmbach Media|access-date=November 21, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231121145258/https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/10-steam-group-to-celebrate-75th-birthday-for-chesapeake-ohio-locomotive/|archive-date=November 21, 2023}}{{Cite magazine |date=June 2001 |title=Railroad News Photos - C&O Kanawha Comes Home |url=https://www.trains.com/trn/magazine/archive-access/trains-june-2001/ |url-access=limited |access-date=March 23, 2024 |magazine=Trains |publisher=Kalmbach Publishing |page=27 |volume=61 |issue=6}}

=Third restoration=

On February 7, 2016, the Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation (KSHC) was formed and announced that it had signed a long-term lease with the Kentucky Railway Museum to restore and operate No. 2716.{{Cite web|last=Franz|first=Justin|date=February 7, 2016|title=Kentucky group to restore C&O 2-8-4 No. 2716|url=http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2016/02/07-2716|work=Trains|publisher=Kalmbach Media|access-date=May 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222065507/http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2016/02/07-2716|archive-date=December 22, 2017}} During which, No. 2716's appearance was temporarily altered to resemble a Louisville and Nashville M-1 Big Emma locomotive No. 1992 for the annual L&N Historical Society convention.{{Cite magazine|last=Paterka|first=Dale|date=April 2020|title=In Search of L&N Big Emma #1992|url=http://cincinnatirrclub.org/News/Digital%20H&M%20April%20'20.pdf|magazine=Headlight & Markers|issue=858|publisher=Cincinnati Railroad Club|pages=6–7|access-date=June 12, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230612200545/http://cincinnatirrclub.org/News/Digital%20H&M%20April%20%2720.pdf|archive-date=June 12, 2023}} In May 2018, the KSHC partnered with the CSX Transportation to move the locomotive to a former Louisville and Nashville rail yard in Ravenna, Kentucky to build a new rail-based tourist and community development center.{{Cite web|last=Gunnoe|first=Chase|date=May 19, 2018|title=C&O 2716 group partners with CSX on Kentucky rail heritage site|url=http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/05/19-co-2716-group-partners-with-csx-on-kentucky-rail-heritage-site|work=Trains|publisher=Kalmbach Media|access-date=May 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521003010/http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/05/19-co-2716-group-partners-with-csx-on-kentucky-rail-heritage-site|archive-date=May 21, 2018}} In November 2018, the KSHC acquired three pieces of rolling stock from the Indiana Transportation Museum (ITM) such as an auxiliary tender No. 251958, an ex-Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) railway post office car No. 6565, and baggage car No. 9036 for use behind No. 2716.{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Kentucky Steam support cars arrive in Ravenna|url=https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/11/16-kentucky-steam-support-cars-arrive-in-ravenna|work=Trains|publisher=Kalmbach Media|date=November 16, 2018|access-date=June 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190226035536/https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/11/16-kentucky-steam-support-cars-arrive-in-ravenna|archive-date=February 26, 2019}}

In January 2019, the Big Rivers Electric Corporation in Henderson, Kentucky salvaged a pair of Buckeye three-axle, roller bearing trucks from a flatcar, which was abandoned at their facility property in Hawesville, Kentucky; and donated them to the KSHC to replace the old friction bearing trucks underneath No. 2716's tender.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Big Rivers Electric Corporation - official website|url=https://www.bigrivers.com/|publisher=Big Rivers Electric Corporation|access-date=August 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190613085206/https://www.bigrivers.com/|archive-date=June 13, 2019}}{{Cite web|last=Anderson|first=Chris|date=January 22, 2019|title=Roller-bearing truck donation could save Kentucky steam group $100K|url=http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/01/22-roller-bearing-truck-donation-could-save-kentucky-steam-group-$100k|work=Trains|publisher=Kalmbach Media|access-date=August 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126043657/http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/01/22-roller-bearing-truck-donation-could-save-kentucky-steam-group-$100k|archive-date=January 26, 2019}} From July 26 to 28, 2019, No. 2716 was moved out of the Kentucky Railway Museum for the first time in 18 years and went to Ravenna, Kentucky for restoration along with the help of CSX Transportation and R.J. Corman Railroad Group.{{Cite web|last=Laytham|first=Emily|date=July 26, 2019|title=After 60 years, a piece of locomotive history is returning to Lexington|url=https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/fayette-county/article233110629.html|work=Lexington Herald-Leader|access-date=August 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727133944/https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/fayette-county/article233110629.html|archive-date=July 27, 2019}}{{efn|It was moved for the second time by the Clinchfield EMD F7 diesel locomotive No. 800, which had previously moved No. 2716 to Marion, North Carolina for restoration in 1979.{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Clinchfield #800|url=https://www.csx.com/index.cfm/about-us/legacy-locomotives/clinchfield-800-legacy-locomotive/|publisher=CSX Corporation|date=|access-date=June 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107190032/https://www.csx.com/index.cfm/about-us/legacy-locomotives/clinchfield-800-legacy-locomotive/|archive-date=January 7, 2019}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Clinchfield 800 to lead C&O 2716 Move in July|url=http://railfan.com/clinchfield-800-to-lead-co-2716-move-in-july/|work=Railfan & Railroad|publisher=White River Productions|date=April 17, 2019|access-date=August 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190516215119/http://railfan.com/clinchfield-800-to-lead-co-2716-move-in-july/|archive-date=May 16, 2019}}}} The locomotive was officially moved into the Ravenna workshop on July 31 and the restoration work on No. 2716 started shortly after.{{Cite web|last=Moomey|first=Liz|title=Can this old train and rail yard become a thriving tourism spot in Eastern Kentucky?|url=https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article246847727.html|date=November 11, 2020|work=Lexington Herald-Leader|access-date=January 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120195020/https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article246847727.html|archive-date=November 20, 2020}} During the restoration work, the locomotive's firebox side sheets, which were patched up twice during its two previous restorations in 1981 and 1996, were replaced with newly fabricated ones.{{Cite web|last=Pusztai-Pasternak|first=Angela|title=Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp's C&O No. 2716 restoration|url=https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/kentucky-steam-heritage-corps-co-no-2716-restoration/|date=May 19, 2021|work=Trains|publisher=Kalmbach Media|access-date=March 31, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519232434/https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/kentucky-steam-heritage-corps-co-no-2716-restoration/|archive-date=May 19, 2021}}

In March 2022, the KSHC was in exchange with the Pueblo Railway Museum (PRM) in Pueblo, Colorado to swap out two of No. 2716's inoperable air compressors with two operational air compressors that came off of PRM's inoperable Santa Fe Class 2900 steam locomotive No. 2912.{{Cite web|title=Pueblo Railway Museum - official website|url=https://pueblorailway.org/|publisher=Pueblo Railway Foundation|access-date=March 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123015244/https://pueblorailway.org/|archive-date=January 23, 2022}}{{Cite web|date=March 8, 2022|title=Kentucky Steam, Pueblo Railway Foundation swap parts for steam locomotive restorations|url=https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/kentucky-steam-pueblo-railway-foundation-swap-parts-for-steam-locomotive-restorations/|work=Trains|publisher=Kalmbach Media|access-date=March 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308224721/https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/kentucky-steam-pueblo-railway-foundation-swap-parts-for-steam-locomotive-restorations/|archive-date=March 8, 2022}} In September 2022, the KSHC purchased new boiler flues from the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum's nearly identical No. 2789 locomotive for use on the former's No. 2716 locomotive.{{Cite web|title=Kentucky Steam acquires tubes, flues for No. 2716 restoration from Indiana museum|url=https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/kentucky-steam-acquires-tubes-flues-for-no-2716-restoration-from-indiana-museum/|work=Trains|publisher=Kalmbach Media|date=September 8, 2022|access-date=June 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129073842/https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/kentucky-steam-acquires-tubes-flues-for-no-2716-restoration-from-indiana-museum/|archive-date=November 29, 2022}}{{Cite web|title=Kentucky Steam to Buy Parts From Hoosier Valley|url=https://railfan.com/kentucky-steam-to-buy-parts-from-hoosier-valley/|work=Railfan & Railroad|publisher=White River Productions|date=September 14, 2022|access-date=June 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221211152814/https://railfan.com/kentucky-steam-to-buy-parts-from-hoosier-valley/|archive-date=December 11, 2022}}

The KSHC announced in June 2023 that No. 2716's firebox will eventually be modified to burn fuel oil instead of coal.{{Cite web|last=Franz|first=Justin|date=June 14, 2023|title=Restoration of C&O 2716 Steams on in Kentucky|url=https://railfan.com/restoration-of-co-2716-steams-on-in-kentucky/|work=Railfan & Railroad|publisher=White River Productions|access-date=June 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230615035927/https://railfan.com/restoration-of-co-2716-steams-on-in-kentucky/|archive-date=June 15, 2023}} In October 2023, the KSHC received $1.9 million from the Government of Kentucky to aid the locomotive's restoration and its potential area.{{Cite web|title=Kentucky Steam Wins $1.9 Million Grant|url=https://railfan.com/kentucky-steam-wins-1-9-million-grant/|work=Railfan & Railroad|publisher=White River Productions|date=October 4, 2023|access-date=October 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005150113/https://railfan.com/kentucky-steam-wins-1-9-million-grant/|archive-date=October 5, 2023}} In November 2023, No. 2716's original feedwater pump was removed to replace the damaged one on Spokane, Portland and Seattle 700 in Portland, Oregon, while the former would eventually receive a replacement pump from the No. 2912 locomotive.{{Cite web|title=Extension of parts swap helps land water pump for restoration of SP&S No. 700|url=https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/extension-of-parts-swap-helps-land-water-pump-for-restoration-of-sps-no-700/|work=Trains|publisher=Kalmbach Media|date=November 15, 2023|access-date=November 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231116220725/https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/extension-of-parts-swap-helps-land-water-pump-for-restoration-of-sps-no-700/|archive-date=November 16, 2023}}{{Cite web|title=Three Way Trade Benefits Restorations of SP&S 700, C&O 2716|url=https://railfan.com/three-way-trade-benefits-restorations-of-sps-700-co-2716/|work=Railfan & Railroad|publisher=White River Productions|date=November 16, 2023|access-date=November 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231116203533/https://railfan.com/three-way-trade-benefits-restorations-of-sps-700-co-2716/|archive-date=November 16, 2023}} Once the restoration work is finished, the No. 2716 locomotive will eventually visit the Railroad Museum of New England, running on the Naugatuck Railroad in Connecticut.{{Cite web|last=Rogers|first=Steve|title=Kentucky Steam announces first of several operations for historic locomotive 2716|url=https://www.wtvq.com/kentucky-steam-announces-first-of-several-operations-for-historic-locomotive-2716/|work=WTVQ-DT|date=December 25, 2021|access-date=December 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226175717/https://www.wtvq.com/kentucky-steam-announces-first-of-several-operations-for-historic-locomotive-2716/|archive-date=December 26, 2021}}

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