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Chesapeake & Ohio Passenger Service 1847 - 1971 by Thomas Dixon Jr C&O HC
Chesapeake & Ohio Passenger Service 1847 - 1971 by Thomas Dixon Jr C&O
Hard Cover
Copyright 2013
224 pages
Sealed in Plastic
The purpose of this book is to give a complete general view of C&O passenger train operations from the beginning of Virginia Central's independent operations in 1847 until Amtrak Day, May 1, 1971, with a postscript chapter about Amtrak operations. Emphasis is on trains of the 20th century, with closest attention to those operating after 1920 up until 1971. However, the book is intended to give a sufficient background in earlier operations of C&O passenger trains that, after all, served as the foundation for the maturation of the 1930s and the decline of the 1960s. There has been very little published about C&O trains in the wooden car era except for a few articles in the C&O Historical Society's magazine.
The book does not cover passenger operations of the major railroads merged into the C&O in the 20th century, namely the Hocking Valley (HV, merged 1930) and the Pere Marquette (PM, merged 1947) - both deserve book-length treatment. The exception to this is C&O operations over these lines before and after the merger dates. Emphasis is on C&O mainline operations between Newport News (and Norfolk via ferry) through Richmond to Charlottesville, and from Washington, D. C. in the east, and Cincinnati and Louisville in the west. Columbus and Toledo became important terminals after the HV merger in 1930, and the whole PM roster of trains came into the C&O fold after 1947.
Branch line operations are covered in general only. C&O operated passenger trains on most of its 100-plus coal branches built between 1890 and 1920. This amounted to hundreds of trains per day, constantly being adjusted to meet local needs. Often a single set of equipment, perhaps a locomotive and one or two cars, could serve for as many as 10 different trains in a single day as it see-sawed up and down short branches.
This book was begun in 1979, put aside for several decades, and only picked up at the beginning of 2013. Some of the material has appeared in the C&O Historical Society magazines over the years, while most has never been in print.
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