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Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Magazine 2012 January February Winter C&O HS
The Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Magazine 2012 January February Winter
C&O Ventilated box cars
CW cabin Hinton WV
C&O's B-3 class 2-10-2
Evolution of C&O wood chip hoppers
The C&O PM Merger pacifics
Modeling the streamlined coal dock for the M-1
This special holiday issue of the magazine has a number of articles that pertain to passenger trains. This is intentional because of all the times in the year C&O's passenger trains got the heaviest travel and the most attention was during the period from just before Thanksgiving until just after Christmas. This occasioned additional cars, second sections, special all mail and express trains and other expansions of service in the earlier days. By the mid-1960s traffic had fallen off but the holidays still saw increased travel and the addition of extra cars.
I have included another of my "Mail by Rail" series of articles in this issue, giving an overview of RPOs on the C&O. In past issues we have dealt with mail service on some of the branches, and a number of the cars have been treated in some detail. The instant article is a very generalized overview and primer on the service.
The Bill Howes article on the last days of C&O dining car service was originally presented at the C&OHS Conference in 2009 at Barboursville, W. Va. It gives the insider's look at the last years of this great service and how every effort was made to maintain a good service but minimize expenses.
At the 2012 conference Bill presented two programs that dealt with the discontinuance of C&O Trains 3 (The FFV) and 4 (The Sportsman) in 1968 and then on the policy and action of the company during the following three years until the arrival of Amtrak. We hope to present this material sometime next year.
Modeling also involves a passenger car, as Larry Fellure explains how he modified a coach into a combine, just as the C&O did-modeling mimics history.
Bob Hundman and Al Kresse team up with drawings and data about two C&O wooden caboose series. Although the C&O steel cabooses have received
a great deal of attention (including Dwight Jones' exhaustive book BK10-528), the wooden cars have had less attention, yet are equally important.
A final passenger-related piece shows diagrams explaining how the consists of Train No. 22/2/42 worked in 1938 and in 1952. This is in connection with our attention to the George Washington during 2012, its 80th year. We now have available a 1938 C&O Consist Book reprint (DS-12-351), courtesy of Mr. Frank Scheer of the Railway Post Office Library in Boyce, Va.. Up until now the earliest consist book we had was 1948, which still has the second sections that were added during WWII. The 1938 book gives us a much better appreciation of the standard operation during the high days of the heavyweight cars.
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