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Chesapeake & Ohio Alleghany Subdivision by Thomas Dixon Jr Soft Cover 1985
Chesapeake and Ohio Alleghany Subdivision by Thomas Dixon Jr
Soft Cover
Copyright 1985
143 Pages
Table of contents:
1 Construction and Early Development 1
2 The Hot Springs Branch 28
3 The Potts Creek Branch 39
4 The Greenbrier Branch 41
5 Main-line Physical Plant 1873-1985 58
6 Stations and Buildings 82
7 Clifton Forge 100
8 Operations and Motive Power 106
9 Freight Traffic 131
10 Passenger Traffic 133
Sources142
THIS book is the fulfillment of a dream I have long had to write a complete history of the Alleghany subdivision of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, since this territory is my "home railroad." I have tried to cover the history as thoroughly as possible from the earliest proposals for canal and turnpike transportation in the region and to show how they developed into a railway, and finally to show how that railway was built and operated over the past 110-plus years. This history was assembled primarily from resources available in the C&O Historical Society archival collection and in my personal files. Two or three times as many illustrations could have been used without too much repetition, but there was no room. The illustrations used are generally small to increase the number that could be included. The early C&O engineering drawings were supplied by the C&O's Engineering Department in Huntington, West Virginia, and are now in the C&OHS collection. I want to thank Mr. Al Norton of the C&O Engineering office for his courtesy and assistance in transferring these and thousands of other early drawings to the society's collections. Thanks also go to the various photographers, whose names appear in the illustration credits, to Mrs. Marion Moody for typing the text, and to Dr. William K. Riley for editing assistance. Dr. William Trout, Virginia's foremost canal expert, offered valuable help on the canal and turnpike background. Jim Rhodes and his crew at Rowley-Scher Reprographics in Norfolk did a superb job of reducing the large (and usually dirty or damaged) engineering drawings to a size that would fit in the book. William P. McNeel, who was just finishing his outstanding book on the Greenbrier branch at the time I was doing this research let me use much of his material for the Greenbrier subdivision treatment here, and I am greatly indebted to him for that. His book, The Durbin Route, is a superb treatment of this line. And, the people at McClain Printing Company in Parsons, West Virginia, have been their usual helpful selves in getting the book in print.
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