The complete history of the C&O's famous K-4 Kanawha types, probably the most versatile of all C&O steam classes. Operated between 1943 and 1956, they handled fast freight, mainline coal trains, branch line coal trains, local freights, and passenger trains on almost every part of the C&O system. "This book gives diagrams of all orders encompassing the 90 locomotives, an HO scale mechanical drawing by Bob Hundman, and detailed history of the operations of these engines throughout their lives, illustrated by over 110 photos. Map and many tables of specifications are included.

Chesapeake & Ohio K-4 Class 2-8-4 Steam Locomotives (Chesapeake & Ohio History Series)

Engineering & Transportation

Dixon Jr., Thomas W.

Transportation

Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.

This book by T. W. Dixon, Jr., details the whole history of passenger train service on the C&O. Beginning with the Virginia Central in the 1840s and ending with Amtrak's takeover in 1971, much of the information has never before been published. Especially during the 1920-1971 period, the era of the heavyweight steel passenger equipment and the lightweight streamlined cars, the heaviest and most powerful steam locomotives, and the iconic E8 diesels - a wealth of detail. Mail, express, dining car, sleeping car, and ancillary service are covered, as well as motive power, cars, schedules, consists, methods of operation, stations, staff/personnel, advertising, and all the elements that went to make the C&O's passenger trains not only highly efficient, greatly successful, widely known, and well respected. Though passengers accounted for only 5% of C&O's revenue in the mid-20th century era, the company lavished a great deal of attention on it. The feeling was that, to truly be a first class railway, C&O had to have the very best passenger service. Innovations starting in the 1880s and leading up into the 1950s, put C&O at the forefront of passenger service development from an operational and technological viewpoint. In the final decades C&O absorbed the passenger losses in the belief that the passenger train was the best advertising that it could have.

Chesapeake & Ohio Passenger Service 1847-1971

This book gives an overview of N&amp;W steam locomotives operating in the period 1930-1960, with emphasis on the three classes that were the backbone of the fleet in that era: J Class 4-8-4s, A Class simple articulated 2-6-6-4s and the many Y classes of 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds.

Norfolk & Western Steam: The Last 30 Years

TLC Publishing

This book is an overview history of the General Motors Electro-Motive Division GP7 and GP9 model diesel locomotives on the C&amp;O. These locomotives were the backbone of C&amp;O's first diesel fleet and were the main replacements for its freight-service steam power. Many were later used by B&amp;O after its affiliation, and some survived into late Chessie System and early CSX eras. All were gone by the mid-1980s. They were the quintes-sential C&amp;O freight diesel of the 1950s and 1960s. This book covers their history and presents a color album showing them at work across the system.

Chesapeake & Ohio GP7/GP9 Diesel Locomotives (Chesapeake and Ohio Railway)

<div> This book is an overview treatment of coaling station facilities on the C&O. It gives background about these facilities and how they operated, then shows the two major styles used by C&O: cylindrical, and box or rectangular, as well as some odd styles that the company istalled. It should be particularly interesting for modelers and some drawings used in erection of these structures in the 1915-1930 era are included for that purpose. </div>

Chesapeake & Ohio Coaling Stations (Chesapeake and Ohio Railway History Series)

A new look at mines, towns, trains, people that were involved in transportation of coal from mine to market on C&amp;O in the period 1945-1960. Chapters include Background; Coal Fields Motive Power; Coal Fields Rolling Stock; C&amp;O Coal Operations; Coal Towns; Mines &amp; Tipples. Most photos are from C&amp;O official files and illustrate every aspect of coal mining and transportation. Maps show branches and their relationship to whole scheme. Ideal for C&amp;O fans, modelers, and those interested in the coal fields of Appalachia. If you have the C&amp;OHS’s 1995 book C&amp;O in the Coal Fields, this book is ALL NEW, and does not repeat the photos or data.

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in the Coal Fields of West Virginia and Kentucky: Mines-Towns-Trains

This is the story of B&amp;O’s last steam locomotive class, the fabulous EM-1 2-8-8-4 simple articulated, which B&amp;O bought during World War II. Although B&amp;O wanted diesels, war-time restrictions prevented it from ordering any and the EM-1s were built instead. They handled the last years of war traffic and served ten more years, hauling fast freights, coal trains, and even some passenger runs over the heaviest grades of the B&amp;O. This book documents their life in photos, drawings, and maps, as well as mechanical and operational information.

Baltimore & Ohio's Magnificent 2-8-8-4 EM-1 Articulated Locomotive

History

Withers, Bob

Americas

This book is about Baltimore &amp; Ohio's Cincinnatian, one of scores of new trains inaugurated by many railroads in the decade after World War Two when passenger train travel was booming. It was all coach train consisting of only five cars, powered by a streamlined Pacific type (4-6-2) steam locomotive. This one small, but highly advertised train served somewhat as an emblem of the enthusiasm on the part of many railroads with high hopes that passenger business could be retained by the railroads in the face of highway and airline competition.

Baltimore & Ohio's Cincinnatian

The Chesapeake &amp; Ohio Railway entered the 20th Century as a small but growing line in the region of Virginia-West Virginia-Kentucky. By the middle of the century it was the world's largest carrier of bituminous coal, a major play in passenger service (though its own fleet was small), and was important in automotive industry transportation. Its stock was blue chip, its cash reserves seemingly limitless, its public relations and advertising the best in the country. It had a reputation as one of the best managed and most profitable lines in the nation.

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway at Mid-Century

This is second in a series of books on the railroads in West Virginia. The first volume, published November, 2009 gives an overview of all roadroads in the state, while this volume deals exclusively with the C&amp;O. The era is mid-20th Century (1935-1965) and the story is told not only with the words and photos but with many maps and drawings that show how C&amp;O's lines in W. Virginia really worked and how they comprised the key element of the seven state C&amp;O system. This is very much a reference book and Gazetteer, and publishes information lacking from the several previous books on various aspects of this subject. Subsequent volumes will deal with other individual railroads with West Virginia.

West Virginia Railroads: Volume 2 Chesapeake & Ohio

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