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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, The By Patrick Dorin C&O George Washington's RR SC
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway By Patrick Dorin George Washington's Railroad
Soft Cover
Copyright 1981
232 Pages Indexed
Table of Contents:
Foreward 7
Chapter 1 A Capsule History of the C&O10
Chapter 2 The Pere Marquette 18
Chapter 3 Travel with Chessie 32
Chapter 4 The C&O and Amtrak 111
Chapter 5 Time Freights, Manifests and Locals from Tidewater to Lake Michigan 114
Chapter 6 Trailer Jets, TOFC and Railvans 149
Chapter 7 King Coal 155
Chapter 8 Iron Ore from the Mesabi and Tidewater173
Chapter 9 A Motive Power Pictorial 175
Chapter 10 Chessie 222
Bibliography 227
Index 228
FOREWARD
The theme of Chesapeake and Ohio Railway is an investigation of the trains, train services and some of the rolling stock and motive power during the 50-year period from 1930 to 1980. It was during this time that the C&O made some of its greatest strides or progress since incorporation as a canal company in 1785. Although the C&O is engaged in all types of railroad transportation services (as well as some highway and Great Lakes ferry services), the company seems to be best known for its coal and passenger trains.
The C&O has always been first and foremost a coal hauler. Coal is virtually transported over all of the C&O main lines-even in the old Pere Marquette District-as well as many of the branch lines that seem to have no real reason for existence at first glance. Coal car development also took some strange twists as car capacity rapidly expanded to 100 tons during the 1920s only to fall back to 50 ton standards for a good many years. By the 1950s, the capacities were moving upwards until the 100 ton car was once again the largest car in the coal hauling trade.
As for the passenger train, who can deny that the C&O operated some of the finest streamliners in North America? The stainless steel beauties with blue and yellow trim caught the eye of all and it was easy to identify a C&O passenger train. The equipment was designed to provide the ultimate in comfort, and it did just that.
The C&O was also famous for "Chessie." Chessie was the cat that became part of C&O advertising during the 1930s, and is now literally part of the insignia for the Chessie System, the organization that includes not only the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, but also the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Western Maryland.
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