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Chesapeake & Ohio Facilities in Color Vol 1 Midwest by Huddleston w/dust jacket
Chesapeake & Ohio Facilities in Color Vol 1 Midwest by Huddleston
Chesapeake & Ohio Facilities in Color Volume 1 Midwest
Eugene L. Huddleston
Hard Cover, dust jacket
Morning Sun Books
128 Pages
Copyright 2008
Contents
THE MIDWEST....3
A SENSE OF PLACE 6
PRESERVING C&O's MIDWESTERN FACILITIES 8
C&O'S ADVANCE TO THE MIDWEST 12
C&O DEPOTS IN MICHIGAN20
Detroit to Chicago "Main Line" 20
Depots from Saginaw to Toldeo30
The Thumb 35
North Woods Country 42
Turkey Trail 50
Ohio Depots 55
Indiana Depots 66
C&O RAILROAD BRIDGES IN THE MIDWEST 68
Michigan Main Line Bridges 68
Michigan Branch Line Bridges 77
Grand Ledge and the Ionia Branch 80
C&O's Ohio and Indiana Bridges 84
TRACK, SIGNALS, GATES AND TILTING TARGETS 88
Track 88
Signals 90
Gates and Tilting Targets 94
COALING STATIONS, ROUND HOUSES, AND TURNTABLES 98
YARD STRUCTURES 104
TOWERS, CABINS AND PLANTS 115
C&O MARITIME FACILITIES IN THE MIDWEST 124
To casual readers, the scope of this project might seem excessively narrow. They would ask: Why the limitation to the Midwest? Coverage of C&O's "facilities," meaning all physical elements of the road other than its cars, locomotives, and trains, is already narrow enough considering that the Chesapeake & Ohio was not that large, comparatively, in mileage or employees. And the thirty year time frame-1958 through 1988seems restrictive considering that the Chesapeake & Ohio was completed in 1873 and still exists today as part of a much larger American railroadCSX Corporation. However, the author felt that because of the size limitations of the series of which this book is a part, a further narrowing of scope was in order. Because a great part of the appeal of the C&O has been as a trans-Appalachian coal hauler with extensive roots and headquarters in the Old Dominion, scholars and railfan authors have dealt with that part of the road's history most of all, as witnessed by numerous C&O books from TLC Publishing and C&O Historical Society. (Three recent books from Morning Sun Books by authors Plant and McClure, forming a series, do comprise a balanced treatment of C&O from the East to the Midwest.) Clearly, Tidewater, Piedmont, and Appalachia were not the only regions the road traversed. In the twentieth century "George Washington's road" expanded into the Midwest in order to have the "long haul' for the great tonnage of coal that originated on its line.
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