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 is the first complete detailed history of the Chesapeake & Ohio's Coal Rver District. These branch lines tapped a fabulously rich coal field just to the south of the C&O main line in sourthern West Virginia, and remains to this day an important coal producing area. Dr. Wendell McChord has researched the line and presents one of the most comprhensive histories in text, maps, and photos covering this very important part of the C&O's coal era.

Chesapeake & Ohio Coal River District (Chesapeake and Ohio Railway)

McChord, Wendell

<p>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.</p>

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

<p><div> <p>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.</p> </div></p>

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

<p><div> <p>This book is a history of the Chesapeake & Ohio's F-17, F-18, and F-19 Classes of Heavy Pacific type locomotives. In the Age of Steam these locomotives were the railroad's premier passenger locomotives, handling all the name trains on the lower grade portions of the C&O's main line, between Cincinnati, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Hinton, W. Va. and between Charlottesville, VA., Washington, D.C. and Newport News, VA.</p> </div></p>

Chesapeake & Ohio Heavy Pacific Locomotives

Parker, Karen

<p>This book fuels the world-wide interest in American locomotives of the late-steam era, when strong performance, high horsepower, and functional beauty were givens. Among roads wealthy enough to afford such engines, Chesapeake &amp; Ohio was in the forefront with its 'Super Power,' and this new book systematically sets forth the development, use, maintenance, and performance of these 'custom made' designs from the introduction in 1930 of the C&amp;O T-1, then the world's most powerful two-cylinder locomotive, through the 'Kanawhas' and 'Greenbriers' of the 1940s, to the L-2 class of 1942 and 1948, the worlds heaviest Hudsons, to the last fifteen of the Allegheny type, which had established the highest drawbar horsepower record of any steam locomotive in the world. The fascinating story of C&amp;O Super Power involves not only the road's own Mechanical Department in Richmond, Virginia, but its close association with Lima Locomotive Works, of Lima, Ohio, and its even closer kinship with the authoritative Advisory Mechanical Committee of Cleveland, Ohio. In giving the reader a fresh and penetrating examination of C&amp;O Super Power, this book brings together over 175 photos, plus reproductions of C&amp;O's own locomotive diagrams and an ICC inspection report for Allegheny no. 1604, preserved today in Baltimore. The photos were carefully selected for quality, relevance to the text, and originality. These action and still photos hopefully will offer images seldom if ever seen before that the viewer will greet with surprise and delight.</p>

Chesapeake & Ohio Super Power Steam Locomotives

Huddleston, Eugene L.

This book traces C&O from where it enters West Virginia in Alleghany Tunnel, until it exits the state across the Big Sandy Bridge at Kenova. Many great photos are included, mainly from the C&OHS collection, as well as maps and even building drawings. Something for everyone interested in the C&O in West Virginia.

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in West Virginia: Photos 1940-1960

History

Dixon, Thomas

Americas

<p>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.</p>

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

<p>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.</p>

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