Author: Karen ParkerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780939487042
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
C&o Railway Series #22
Author: Karen ParkerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780939487042
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Magazine
Author: Chesapeake & Ohio Life in a Caboose
Author: Clifford L. ClementsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780939487455
Category : Cabooses (Railroads)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Chesapeake & Ohio Super Power Steam Locomotives
Author: Eugene L HuddlestonPublisher: Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.
ISBN: 9780939487752
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 & 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&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&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&O Super Power, this book brings together over 175 photos, plus reproductions of C&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.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Magazine
Author: Chesapeake and Ohio, Coal and Color
Author: Eugene L. HuddlestonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780939487288
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Newsletter
Author: Chessie
Author: Thomas DixonPublisher: TLC Publishing (VA)
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The best-loved company symbol of all time. Introduced in 1933, Chessie appeared on calendars, railroad memorabilia, and in advertisements and was modernized to form the logo for the new Chessie System paint scheme in 1972.
Chesapeake and Ohio
Author: Chesapeake & Ohio Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
The Hocking Valley Railway
Author: Edward H. MillerPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821416588
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
“The first comprehensive history of the Hocking Valley Railway ever published fills a gap in the literature. Miller has written the definitive history of this railroad,” says Richard Francaviglia, author of Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts. The Hocking Valley Railway was once Ohio's longest rail line, filled with a seemingly endless string of coal trains. Although coal was the main business, the railroad also carried iron and salt-and kept the finest passenger service in the State of Ohio. Despite the fact that the Hocking Valley was such a large railroad, with a huge economic and social impact, very little is known about it.The Hocking Valley Railway traces the journey of a company that began in 1867 as the Columbus and Hocking Valley, built to haul coal from Athens to Columbus. Extensions of the line and consolidation of several branches ultimately created the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo. This was a 345-mile railway, extending from the Lake Erie port of Toledo through Columbus, and on to the Ohio River port of Pomeroy. The history of the Hocking Valley, as with other railroads, is one of boom times and depression. By the 1920s, the Hocking fields were largely depleted, and the mass of track south of Columbus became a backwater, while the Toledo Division boomed. The corporate name has been gone for more than three quarters of a century, but the Hocking Valley lives on as an integral part of railroad successor CSX. Historians and railroad enthusiasts will find much to savor in the story of this ever-changing company and the managers who ran it. The Hocking Valley Railway, complete with more than 150 photographs and illustrations, also documents a historic transformation in Midwest transportation from slow canalboats to speedy railcars.The author, Edward H. Miller is retired from Hocking Valley successor CSX. This is his first book, which has been over thirty years in the making.