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The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( reporting marks C&O, CO) was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century. Led by industrialist Collis P. Huntington, it reached from Virginia's capital city of Richmond to the Ohio River by 1873, where the railroad town (and later city) of ...
Factor of adh. The Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8 was a class of 60 simple articulated 2-6-6-6 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio between 1941 and 1948, operating until the mid 1950s. The locomotives were among the most powerful steam locomotives ever built and hauled fast, heavy freight trains for the railroad.
The Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad was a 19th-century railway company in Kentucky in the United States. It operated from 1882, when it purchased the Paducah and Elizabethtown Railroad and the Memphis, Paducah and Northern Railroad, until 1896, when it was purchased by the Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad.
The railroad of The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, herein called the carrier, is a standard-gauge steam railroad located in the States of Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio. It is a single-track railroad, with the exception of about 482 miles, which is double-track.
S-2 58 engines built 1949–1950; S-4 14 engines built 1953; RS-2 2 engines built 1949, and later sold to Lehigh Valley Railroad; RSD-5 26 engines built 1952; RS-1 2 engines built 1953
up to 100 mph (160 km/h) The Chessie was a proposed streamlined passenger train developed by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) in the late 1940s. The brainchild of C&O executive Robert R. Young, the Chessie would have operated on a daylight schedule between Washington, D.C., and Cincinnati, Ohio. The train's luxury lightweight equipment was ...
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 's Classes J-1 and J-2 were two classes of 4-8-2 steam locomotives introduced on the Chesapeake & Ohio for hauling heavy passenger trains over the Allegheny Mountains. The J-1s were the first 4-8-2s in the United States and earned the wheel arrangement the name of "Mountains" after the C&O's Mountain Divisions over ...
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad may refer to: Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, an American railroad company between 1878–1987. Virginia Central Railroad, predecessor of the above, known as the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad between 1868–1878. Category: