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Tracks running through the station along the Chesapeake & Ohio  (C & O) Railroad. Town seen in the background.

1. Hinton Freight Depot, Hinton, W. Va.

Engine No. 7 sitting beside stall No. 1 of the roundhouse. A group of unidentified workers stand on along the tracks and sit on the train.

2. C. & O. Locomotive Outside of Roundhouse, Hinton, W. Va.

A train car reads, "Chesapeake & Ohio".

3. C. & O. Train Passing through Hinton, W. Va.

Mrs. E. M. Marable stands outside the cabin beside the railroad tracks.

4. C. & O. Operator Outside MX Cabin, Hinton, W. Va.

The C. & O. train idles in the engine terminal ready to embark.

5. Train No. 1621 Ready to Head Eastbound on Tracks in Front of Mallet House, Hinton, W. Va.

In the center is Oce Bobbitt. To the right is Bill Echols. The man on the left is unidentified.

6. Early C. & O. Conductors in Hinton, W. Va.

Stoddard family pictured beside the turntable, which was 900 feet in circumference.

7. Locomotive No. 175 on Hinton Round House Turntable, Hinton, W. Va.

Huntington was the president of the C. & O. Railway when the line moved, in 1972, into what would later become Hinton and Summers County, W. Va.Huntington purchased, for the railroad, all the land where the City of Hinton now stands at public auction. He later purchased from the railroad all the land that would not be used by the railroad.

8. Portrait of Collis P. Huntington, President of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway

Looking at the engine sitting on the tracks, following by train cars reading, "Chesapeake & Ohio".

9. C. & O. Engine No. 128, Hinton, W. Va.

Two unidentified railroad employees stand beside Engine No. 201 on the C. & O. Railway.

10. C. & O. Train Passing through Hinton, W. Va.

Engine No. 307 pictured pulling "Chesapeake & Ohio" cars.

11. C. & O. Train in Avis Yards, Hinton, W. Va.

Photo of the first coal-burning, steam, turbine, electric engine--the largest single unit locomotive in the world. As long as 154 feet and 9 3/4 inches, including the water tender. The top speed was 100 miles per hour. The engine weight 411.5 tons.

12. C. & O. Engine No. 500 in Hinton, W. Va.