Photographer- unknown- from my personal collection. After her brief career on the Southern Rwy Steam Program, former C&O Kanawha 2716 sat in Birmingham, AL and was eventually brought up to Ind... (more)

Passenger station. It was taken somewhere in 1977 or 1978.From my slide collection photo by Mark Clark.

The conquerors took over steam — C&O F units at Peach Creek, W. Va. Oct. 6, 1956.

It was bad enough arriving Peach Creek, W. Va. to find C&O’s steam operations had just been taken over by diesels in 1956, but the dismal, rainy, overcast Oct. 6th day didn’t help the enthusia... (more)

Not too far from Peach Creek, C&O had a string of 2-6-6-6’s condemned to scrap in the yard at Hinton, W. Va., such as 1624 on Aug. 5, 1956. I was too late to see and hear the brutes in action.

More conqueror’s of C&O steam — Alco RSD-15’s 6802 and 6808 at Peach Creek, W. Va., brand new on Oct. 6, 1956.

C&O had 15 Class C-12 0-10-0’s, most of which worked the heavy coal cuts at Peach Creek, W.Va. By Oct. 6, 1956, 142’s services were no longer needed. It’s tiny headlight was mounted on t... (more)

Another never-to-be-called back on stage to perform, C&O 1344 in the dead line at Peach Creek, W. Va.

Have you ever arrived at a play late, just after the final curtain dropped? That was my luck at Peach Creek, W.Va. when C&O had just shut down stream operations. This was C&O 2-6-6-2 1421 after... (more)

Chessie U30B #8205 resting at Martin, KY in June 1984

60 years ago, Alco S4 #5109 was born and delivered to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. It has since seen many owners and paint schemes, but its current owner, the Toledo, Lake Erie, and Western ... (more)

C&O U25B No. 8107 was positioned for load testing in Clifton Forge, VA on July 28, 1979. At the time, U25Bs were dropping like flies, with plenty of them retired and stored at Clifton Forge. I g... (more)

A trio of C&O geeps depart the Elkhorn City yard after dropping a cut of cars for the Clinchfield out of Shelby, KY. The C&O would routinely drop cars for the Clinchfield in this yard and sometime... (more)

To the north of milepost 1 on the Clinchfield was the C&O yard in Shelby, KY. Sometimes, Clinchfield freights would run right to the yard and turnover a train, and C&O would do the same. However,... (more)

By the 1980s, Chessie had pulled all of C&O’s U25Bs out of service and stored them in Clifton Forge, Virginia. Here, parked beside the Clifton Forge Locomotive Shops, a string of nearly thirty ... (more)