Chesapeake & Ohio, Coal, and Color

by Huddleston, Joseph, and Young

History of the Chesapeake & Ohio's coal field operations in West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio from the steam era through the C&O/B&O merger years and then into the CSX era. In covering the six main coal fields, sites of heavy duty railroading and glorious Appalachian scenery, from the end of the steam power in 1956 to the powerful diesels of 1996, the book presents in full color photos of several different types of steam locomotives and over 25 distinctive diesel models, as well as illustrations of ancillary operations such as the rail-to-river transfer facilities on the Ohio River at Huntington and the Winifrede Railroad on the Kanawha.