Chesapeake and Ohio SD40 is seen sitting at the C&O Heritage Center in Clifton Forge.

A gleaming set of C&O F-units in their high-wave paint scheme, on lead of the Chicago Division's freight train in this 1960 view at Hegewisch, Illinois. Photographer E.L Huddleston, from my colle... (more)

A Chessie System track inspection special moves through Blue Island on a B&OCT branch line. Tom Golden photo.

Logan, WV C&O shops, 09/04/53, photographer unknown. John E. Troxler collection.

C&O 1309 was out test running today. She looks good all stretched out. More testing and tightening up and she will be good as new.

C&O 7534 sits among other pieces of history at the C&O Railway Heritage Center in Clifton Forge, Virginia. This locomotive was beautifully restored by the CSX Huntington shops and was donated by C... (more)

Nine years after the FRA-mandated deadline for cars built before 1966 to have their roofwalks removed, there were still non-compliant cars in service. Here a Chesapeake & Ohio 40-foot boxcar, stil... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio 8016 rolls on to the turntable at the North Carolina Transportation Museum to the delight of the many rail fans in attendance. This was part of the Streamliners at Spencer Event... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

During the year that Back to the Future appeared on the silver screen, the town where time stood still had its own back to the future moment. Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 was back pulling co... (more)

With marker lamps lit and flying American flags, C&O 4-8-4 614 leads an eastbound coal train through Deep Water, West Virginia.

After close to three decades of absence, coal smoke filled the air over trains of black diamonds in January, 1985. Here an eastbound train powered by C&O 4-8-4 614 passes through Handley, West Vir... (more)

We're standing under the Main St. SW bridge, between two of the world's greatest steam locomotives- N&W Class A No. 1218 on the left, and C&O H-8 No. 1604 on the right. The location is the old Roa... (more)

Steam returned to coal train service on the Chesapeake & Ohio main line during most of the month of January, 1985. C&O 4-8-4 614 pulled coal trains between Huntington and Hinton, West Virginia, wh... (more)

Completed in 1835, the Thomas Viaduct is the world’s oldest multiple-arch stone railroad bridge. Situated over the Patapsco River near Relay, Maryland, the structure was built by the Baltimore &... (more)