'C. & O. R.R. Locomotive #32; Builder Name--Danforth Loco, Co. placed in service 1870. Cylinders 16" x 24"; weight of engines with three gauges of water 61650 pounds; Diam drivers 60:; dimensions of fire box 58 1/2 feet by 35 feet by 60 1/2 feet; No. of Flues 149; Diam of flues 2 inches; length of flues 11 feet, 1 inch; Diam of Boiler 46 7/8 feet; Service Passenger.'
Huntington to Richmond Express Train at Alderson House Hotel, Alderson, W. Va.
Date:
1885/04
Description:
'C&O Train, The Huntington to Richmond Express at the breakfast shop by the Alderson House Hotel on the morning of April (?) 1885. The locomotive is No. 32, and the engineer is ? Noel.'
Chesapeake and Ohio Train No. 14 on the Platform at the Depot in Alderson, W.Va.
Date:
1891/03/26
Description:
'Thirty minutes after the photograph of train 14 was taken, it wrecked in Mann Tunnel when it ran into the rear of a freight train; the locomotive and cars were completely burned, but no injuries resulted to members of the crew or passengers. Engineer Lon Alley, March 26, 1891 at 2:00 p.m.'
The train was carrying lumber from Robson, W. Va. to a C. & O. station at Deepwater, W. Va before wrecking. J. S. Blake is standing on the wheel near the ground. Also pictured are D. P. Craig, William Darlington, and Pete Foster.
Chesapeake and Ohio Atlantic Type Locomotive No. 8
Date:
1909
Description:
'(American Loco. Co. 1902) at Alderson, W. Va. with special train of Baptist Sunday School members bound from Hinton, Alderson, and Ronceverte to White Sulphur Springs.'
Railroad Workers and Engine No. 372, McKendree, W. Va.
Date:
1911/07
Description:
Employees stand with a Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) locomotive sitting on the track in front of the Yellow Goose Boarding House and the McKendree Hospital (a miners' hospital) behind the boarding house. The employees are, left to right: W. L. Burke, Engineer; H. E. McFadden, Fireman;; Jim Johnson, Boy mast(?); Pete Challonen, Dispatcher; D. H. Hontsovln, Conductor; Floyd Lewis, Brakeman.
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Depot, Alderson, W. Va.
Date:
1913
Description:
C&O depot in Alderson W. Va. Men standing outside left to right: Moody Hokins, Harold Flack, Fred Patton, Floyd Thomas, Frank Bordurant, Agent T.L. Jamison, unknown, unknown, Freight Agent W.A. Hancock, J.C. Boggs (in doorway.)
Group Posed on Porch at Chesapeake and Ohio Depot, Springdale, Ky.
Date:
1914
Description:
Left to right: Cecil Upton, Monroe Cales, Louis Rosemire - Supervisor of Track on the Northern Division, C and O (Chesapeake and Ohio) died in 1930, Evert Johnson died 1952, and Elbert Cales. Other information on the back of the photograph includes: "New Richmond Su Co WV - from Jerome Barr and wife - Stephen Trail".
Telegraph Operators, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Prince, W. Va.
Date:
1915
Description:
Group portrait of operators in front of a C&O Railway schedule board. L to R; David W. Morgan, Valmer A. Meadow, J. B. Thomas, Todie B. Green. Other information the back of the photograph includes: "from Roy Long Coll 1998"
C. & O. Employees at Local Chairmen & Representative Meeting, Hot Springs, Arkansas
Date:
1915
Description:
Pictured from left to right is engineer John Scott, conductor J. C. Morgan, fireman J. B. "Bert" Hatcher, engineer E. T. Lawson, Sr., and standing in the back is engineer G. R. Sale.
Filled Chesapeake and Ohio coal car in front of a group of houses at Tams, W. Va.Picture includes: Betty Jean Seals, Robert Church, Doris Williams, Marlene Dews, Leroy Messingbery, Josephine or Ernestine Hill, Whitney Hairston, Wilfred Younger, and Charlene Jennings.
C. & O. Employees and Long Brothers Gather for Mother's Death, Summers County, W. Va.
Date:
1925/08
Description:
Standing from left to right is Clarence E.; B. Frank; Vernal S.; and William G. Front row from left to right is Walter S.; Ellery C.; and Atchless Murat Long.
'Looking west at mile 21.9. Berry in left foreground. Settlement of Rush Run near center of picture. Tracks of Chesapeake and Ohio railroad on both sides of river.'
'Hawks Nest and mouth of Mill Creek. Below here the two tracks of the Chesapeake and Ohio are together on west side of river. Looking east southeast at mile 7.4.'
'London Lock under construction by Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, to replace Lock 2, two miles upstream. Handley, West Virginia, at right, London at left. Chesapeake and Ohio in foreground. New York Central and route 60 beyond river. Looking east southeast 14 miles below mouth of Gauley River.'
'Grand view at Quinnimont West Virginia, on main line of the Chesapeake and Ohio, route of the George Washington and the Sportsman, air conditioned flyers to Washington and the East. New River - C & O Main Line (Ch. 36, p.472).'
Work Train Explosion in Powellton Hollow, McDunn, W. Va.
Date:
1934/12/27
Description:
Those killed as a result of the accident were William Blankenship, Homer Cart, Thomas W. Craft, James Hunter, Eddie Huelett, Steve Kozma, Everett Leach, John Long, William J. Maynus, Henry McMillian, J. L. "Pat" Murphy, Delmar Oxley, Jesse Persinger, S. L. Runyon, Ray Tartar, William Turner, and Jerome Walters. In addition to those who lost their lives, 43 or 46 were injured. A Chesapeake and Ohio derrick car works to clear the wreckage.
!['Top: John Calhoun, E. P. Fullerton, unknown, Chas Delabar, unknown, Walter Beuhring. Bottom: Walter L. Irwin, Chas Hunter, Abe Pane [sic], unknown.'](/thumb/007166.jpg "Chesapeake and Ohio Front Office Force, Huntington, W. Va.")
