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The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway at Mid-Century

Author : Thomas W. Dixon Jr
Publisher : Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780939487882
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway at Mid-Century written by Thomas W. Dixon Jr and published by Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway entered the 20th Century as a small but growing line in the region of Virginia-West Virginia-Kentucky. By the middle of the century it was the world's largest carrier of bituminous coal, a major play in passenger service (though its own fleet was small), and was important in automotive industry transportation. Its stock was blue chip, its cash reserves seemingly limitless, its public relations and advertising the best in the country. It had a reputation as one of the best managed and most profitable lines in the nation.

Virginia Railroads Volume 2

Author : Thomas Dixon
Publisher : TLC Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780939487516
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Railroads Volume 2 written by Thomas Dixon and published by TLC Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume in a series of books about railroading in Virginia details the history of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway from its inception as the Louisa Railroad in central Virginia in 1836 up to modern times. Each chapter explains how a subdivision of the railway developed, including the types of locomotive used, the nature of the traffic carried, and geographical considerations. The many photographs are mostly from the 1930-1960 era. Maps and track plans add to the rich illustrative treatment, making this a gazetteer of the line.

Chesapeake & Ohio Passenger Service 1847-1971

Author : Thomas W. Dixon Jr
Publisher : Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780939487615
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Chesapeake & Ohio Passenger Service 1847-1971 written by Thomas W. Dixon Jr and published by Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

Author : James E. Casto
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738543345
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway written by James E. Casto and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1860s, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) pushed its first tracks westward from Virginia's Tidewater region across the mountains into what was then the new state of West Virginia. Ultimately its tracks stretched across a half-dozen states and even into Canada. Appalachian coal was the C&O's primary cargo, but its fast freights carried shipments of all kinds, and its crack passenger trains were marvels of their day. In 1963, the C&O merged with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the first of what would become a wave of railroad mergers. Today the old C&O is part of giant CSX Transportation. Images of Rail: The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway gathers 200 photographs that chronicle the C&O story. Here is a fond look back at its mammoth steam locomotives and the diesels that replaced them, its bustling passenger stations, and much more, including the legendary John Henry, who beat that steam drill, and Chessie, the sleeping kitten that was the C&O's much-loved trademark.

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in Clifton Forge, Virginia

Author : Thomas W. Dixon
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0939487799
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in Clifton Forge, Virginia written by Thomas W. Dixon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Railroads 40s & 50s

Author : Charles H. Bogart
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312700599
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Railroads 40s & 50s written by Charles H. Bogart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-11-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each class one, class two and class three railroad in Kentucky is covered in text and photographs

Chessie

Author : Thomas Dixon
Publisher : TLC Publishing (VA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Chessie written by Thomas Dixon and published by TLC Publishing (VA). This book was released on 1988 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Cleveland Mainline Railroads

Author : Craig Sanders
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467111376
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Cleveland Mainline Railroads written by Craig Sanders and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1800s, railroad development was instrumental in enabling Cleveland to become an industrial center. By 1920, Cleveland was the nation's fifth-largest city, with an economy dependent on the iron and steel, petroleum-refining, automotive, and chemical industries. It was second only to Detroit among American cities in the percentage of the population employed by industry. Railroads brought raw materials needed for manufacturing and carried the finished products to markets everywhere. The mainline railroads serving Cleveland included the Baltimore & Ohio, the Erie, the New York Central, the Nickel Plate Road, the Pennsylvania, and the Wheeling & Lake Erie. Images of Rail: Cleveland Mainline Railroads describes how these six railroads developed and what freight and passenger markets they served through the 1960s, a period during which railroads were the primary carriers of goods and passengers to Cleveland. Industry changed following World War II, leading to the consolidation and abandonment of railroad routes in northeast Ohio.

Logomotive

Author : IAIN. GLANCY LOGAN (JONATHAN.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781873329504
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Logomotive written by IAIN. GLANCY LOGAN (JONATHAN.) and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a once-in-a-lifetime glimpse into the past majesty of the pioneering days of the American Railroads as told by the graphics of the industry.

Nickel Plate Road Diesel Locomotives

Author : Kevin Holland
Publisher : TLC Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781883089351
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Nickel Plate Road Diesel Locomotives written by Kevin Holland and published by TLC Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Nickel Plate Road was widely known and respected for its great steam locomotives, its diesel roster was equally interesting. Keven Holland tells the complete story of Nickel Plate Road's dieselization and traces the history of all its diesel locomotives down to and after the N&W merger. Filled with official Nickel Plate Road photographs plus a variety of photos from railfan photographers. The last word on the diesel fleet of Nickel Plate Road diesel locomotives!

The Railroads of Kentucky During the 1940s & 1950s

Author : Charles H. Bogart
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387972006
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book The Railroads of Kentucky During the 1940s & 1950s written by Charles H. Bogart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kentucky claims to be the birthplace of railroading west of the Appalachian Mountains. In 1832, the Lexington & Ohio Railroad (L&O) began to build track from Lexington to Louisville. Unfortunately the L&O got no further than Frankfort on the Kentucky River when it ran out of money. Railroad construction in Kentucky would stagnate until the 1850s when four companies started to build track, three were north-south and one east-west. An amalgamation of railroads using the name Kentucky Central would push south from Covington opposite Cincinnati OH, toward Chattanooga TN, but stalled at Nicholasville due to the Civil War. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N) would build southward from Louisville for Nashville TN, and Memphis TN, reaching both cities as the Civil War started. The Mobile & Ohio Railroad (M&O) during the same period completed a railroad from Mobile AL, to Columbus KY, on the Mississippi River. The east-west track reached from Louisville eastward to a junction at Frankfort KY.

Geographical Dictionary Of The World In The Early 20th Century With Pronouncing Gazetteer (in 2 Vos.)

Author : Moonis Raza
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788172680114
Total Pages : 1232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Geographical Dictionary Of The World In The Early 20th Century With Pronouncing Gazetteer (in 2 Vos.) written by Moonis Raza and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coal Trains

Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 1616731370
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Coal Trains written by Brian Solomon and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first, U.S. railroads have carried coal from mines to docks, steel mills, and power plants across the country. In this authoritative book spanning the whole of that history, from the mid-nineteenth century to present, noted rail author Brian Solomon explores the railroads and hardware that have transported the fossil fuels that made America work. Brilliant period and contemporary photographs convey the drama of the enterprise: the very long—and very heavy—trains powering up mountain grades and thundering across barren prairies. At sites from the eastern and western U.S., past and present, readers see giant double-headed Norfolk and Western steam locomotives moving Appalachian coal in Virginia; modern CSX diesels dragging unit coal trains over the well-groomed former Chesapeake & Ohio main line; BNSF’s SD70MACs with more than 100 hoppers in tow; Rio Grande locomotives snaking through the Rocky Mountains; and coal trains working full-throttle up Colorado’s Tennessee Pass, cresting the Continental Divide at 10,000 feet above sea level. Taking up topics ranging from the colorful but now-defunct “anthracite roads” of eastern Pennsylvania to today’s AC-traction diesels that work Wyoming’s thriving Powder River Basin, Solomon reveals how for 150 years the unique demands of coal—and America’s demand for coal—have prompted new railroad technologies.

Plymouth Railroads

Author : Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens and Ellen Elliott
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467104698
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Plymouth Railroads written by Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens and Ellen Elliott and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to a Detroit Free Press article of March 14, 1872, "The advent of the railroad has completely changed the course of life of the inhabitants of this village, which is the first of importance going west from Detroit." The two railroads that came to Plymouth in the early 1870s changed the course of history for the once-sleepy town. Within 20 years, the railroads would be used to transport repeat orders for the booming air rifle industry to all corners of the United States. The rail lines made industry possible for a small burg outside of the metropolitan area of Detroit. Because of the distance to other cities, passenger transportation was always an important mission of railroads. These needs were met between 1899 and 1928 by the Detroit, Plymouth & Northville Railroad (Interurban). Later, enhanced passenger service ran on the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) line between Detroit and Grand Rapids, stopping in Plymouth (1946-1971).

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Author : Eugene Weiser
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300633050
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad written by Eugene Weiser and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of American Railroads series takes you through the trials and tribulations faced by the influential railroads that formed America. The first book in the series discusses the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from beginning until it was absorbed by the CSX railroad.

The Financier

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2892 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book The Financier written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 2892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

500+ All-American Family Adventures

Author : Debbie K. Hardin
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 0881509892
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book 500+ All-American Family Adventures written by Debbie K. Hardin and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-by-state guide to the places that offer a unique insight into American culture 500+ All-American Family Adventures is a thoughtful handbook that will help you plan family vacations and day trips that are both entertaining and educational. Travel is one of the best ways to augment a child’s formal education, and this volume offers insightful suggestions for making the most of any trip—all the while making it so much fun that your kids won’t even know they’re learning. This voluminous collection, carefully researched, includes places your family will never forget—the most important historical sites in the country are here, as well as gems travelers might otherwise miss. The common thread is that each gives real insight into the American experience and also packs a powerful, engaging experience on its own. Also provided: budgeting tips, time-saving strategies, historical background, and an appendix of the best family-friendly lodging options.