Author: Karen Parker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780939487042
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
C&o Railway Series #22
Author: Karen Parker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780939487042
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780939487042
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Chesapeake & Ohio Passenger Service 1847-1971
Author: Thomas W. Dixon Jr
Publisher: Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.
ISBN: 9780939487615
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book by T. W. Dixon, Jr., details the whole history of passenger train service on the C&O. Beginning with the Virginia Central in the 1840s and ending with Amtrak's takeover in 1971, much of the information has never before been published. Especially during the 1920-1971 period, the era of the heavyweight steel passenger equipment and the lightweight streamlined cars, the heaviest and most powerful steam locomotives, and the iconic E8 diesels - a wealth of detail. Mail, express, dining car, sleeping car, and ancillary service are covered, as well as motive power, cars, schedules, consists, methods of operation, stations, staff/personnel, advertising, and all the elements that went to make the C&O's passenger trains not only highly efficient, greatly successful, widely known, and well respected. Though passengers accounted for only 5% of C&O's revenue in the mid-20th century era, the company lavished a great deal of attention on it. The feeling was that, to truly be a first class railway, C&O had to have the very best passenger service. Innovations starting in the 1880s and leading up into the 1950s, put C&O at the forefront of passenger service development from an operational and technological viewpoint. In the final decades C&O absorbed the passenger losses in the belief that the passenger train was the best advertising that it could have.
Publisher: Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.
ISBN: 9780939487615
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book by T. W. Dixon, Jr., details the whole history of passenger train service on the C&O. Beginning with the Virginia Central in the 1840s and ending with Amtrak's takeover in 1971, much of the information has never before been published. Especially during the 1920-1971 period, the era of the heavyweight steel passenger equipment and the lightweight streamlined cars, the heaviest and most powerful steam locomotives, and the iconic E8 diesels - a wealth of detail. Mail, express, dining car, sleeping car, and ancillary service are covered, as well as motive power, cars, schedules, consists, methods of operation, stations, staff/personnel, advertising, and all the elements that went to make the C&O's passenger trains not only highly efficient, greatly successful, widely known, and well respected. Though passengers accounted for only 5% of C&O's revenue in the mid-20th century era, the company lavished a great deal of attention on it. The feeling was that, to truly be a first class railway, C&O had to have the very best passenger service. Innovations starting in the 1880s and leading up into the 1950s, put C&O at the forefront of passenger service development from an operational and technological viewpoint. In the final decades C&O absorbed the passenger losses in the belief that the passenger train was the best advertising that it could have.
Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Chessie
Author: Thomas Dixon
Publisher: TLC Publishing (VA)
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The best-loved company symbol of all time. Introduced in 1933, Chessie appeared on calendars, railroad memorabilia, and in advertisements and was modernized to form the logo for the new Chessie System paint scheme in 1972.
Publisher: TLC Publishing (VA)
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The best-loved company symbol of all time. Introduced in 1933, Chessie appeared on calendars, railroad memorabilia, and in advertisements and was modernized to form the logo for the new Chessie System paint scheme in 1972.
Chesapeake & Ohio Life in a Caboose
Author: Clifford L. Clements
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780939487455
Category : Cabooses (Railroads)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780939487455
Category : Cabooses (Railroads)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Chesapeake & Ohio Super Power Steam Locomotives
Author: Eugene L Huddleston
Publisher: Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.
ISBN: 9780939487752
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book fuels the world-wide interest in American locomotives of the late-steam era, when strong performance, high horsepower, and functional beauty were givens. Among roads wealthy enough to afford such engines, Chesapeake & Ohio was in the forefront with its 'Super Power,' and this new book systematically sets forth the development, use, maintenance, and performance of these 'custom made' designs from the introduction in 1930 of the C&O T-1, then the world's most powerful two-cylinder locomotive, through the 'Kanawhas' and 'Greenbriers' of the 1940s, to the L-2 class of 1942 and 1948, the worlds heaviest Hudsons, to the last fifteen of the Allegheny type, which had established the highest drawbar horsepower record of any steam locomotive in the world. The fascinating story of C&O Super Power involves not only the road's own Mechanical Department in Richmond, Virginia, but its close association with Lima Locomotive Works, of Lima, Ohio, and its even closer kinship with the authoritative Advisory Mechanical Committee of Cleveland, Ohio. In giving the reader a fresh and penetrating examination of C&O Super Power, this book brings together over 175 photos, plus reproductions of C&O's own locomotive diagrams and an ICC inspection report for Allegheny no. 1604, preserved today in Baltimore. The photos were carefully selected for quality, relevance to the text, and originality. These action and still photos hopefully will offer images seldom if ever seen before that the viewer will greet with surprise and delight.
Publisher: Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.
ISBN: 9780939487752
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book fuels the world-wide interest in American locomotives of the late-steam era, when strong performance, high horsepower, and functional beauty were givens. Among roads wealthy enough to afford such engines, Chesapeake & Ohio was in the forefront with its 'Super Power,' and this new book systematically sets forth the development, use, maintenance, and performance of these 'custom made' designs from the introduction in 1930 of the C&O T-1, then the world's most powerful two-cylinder locomotive, through the 'Kanawhas' and 'Greenbriers' of the 1940s, to the L-2 class of 1942 and 1948, the worlds heaviest Hudsons, to the last fifteen of the Allegheny type, which had established the highest drawbar horsepower record of any steam locomotive in the world. The fascinating story of C&O Super Power involves not only the road's own Mechanical Department in Richmond, Virginia, but its close association with Lima Locomotive Works, of Lima, Ohio, and its even closer kinship with the authoritative Advisory Mechanical Committee of Cleveland, Ohio. In giving the reader a fresh and penetrating examination of C&O Super Power, this book brings together over 175 photos, plus reproductions of C&O's own locomotive diagrams and an ICC inspection report for Allegheny no. 1604, preserved today in Baltimore. The photos were carefully selected for quality, relevance to the text, and originality. These action and still photos hopefully will offer images seldom if ever seen before that the viewer will greet with surprise and delight.
Chesapeake & Ohio (Virginia Central) During the Civil War
Author: Thomas W. Dixon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780939487202
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780939487202
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Potomac Canal
Author: Robert J. Kapsch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Canawlers
Author: James Rada
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615717609
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
During the Civil War, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was the de facto border between the Union and Confederate states. Canawlers is the story of the Fitzgerald family as they try and make their living on the C&O Canal amid the fighting between the North and South.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615717609
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
During the Civil War, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was the de facto border between the Union and Confederate states. Canawlers is the story of the Fitzgerald family as they try and make their living on the C&O Canal amid the fighting between the North and South.
Chesapeake and Ohio
Author: Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description