According to the inside back cover, Tracks magazine won a 1952 “Award of Excellence” from the International Council of Industrial Editors (now the International Council of Business Communicators). Magazines such as this were published by the railroads to give their … Continue reading
These menus make a big deal of the fact that C&O/B&O employees wear a sprig of holly during the Christmas season, a tradition “started in 1948.” No doubt it was started on the B&O, as some of the holly came … Continue reading
Every railfan has favorite railroads, and Chesapeake & Ohio is not one of mine. Robert Young tried to do some interesting things with, but Robert Young was a crazy man whose connection to reality was somewhat tenuous. I probably don’t … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen an April, 1964 timetable for the combined C&O/B&O passenger systems. This four-page brochure is a revision to a slightly previous timetable. Click image to download a 1.1-MB PDF of this timetable. The presence of asthma in our … Continue reading
The only passenger content in this calendar is Chessie, C&O’s symbol of its comfortable passenger trains. In 1933, C&O paid Austrian artist Guido Gruenwald five whole dollars for the rights to use his drawing of a sleepy cat; Gruenwald died … Continue reading
In 1960, Chesapeake & Ohio began buying stock in the Baltimore & Ohio. B&O stockholders approved the sale and by 1964 the C&O owned 90 percent of B&O stock. The two continued to operate as separate railroads for many years, … Continue reading
Like the Louisville & Nashville map posted here a month ago, this one has a map of the United States on one side and a close-up view of the states served by the relevant railroad on the other side. The … Continue reading
The Chesapeake and Ohio wanted people attending the Century of Progress Exposition know that it, too, had air-conditioned trains. While B&O might have been the first railroad to air condition an entire train, “Chesapeake and Ohio is the first railroad … Continue reading
This tabloid-sized ad for seven-day escorted tours of Virginia was published by the Chesapeake & Ohio in 1931. Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown, Mt. Vernon, Monticello, and various historic monuments and sites in and around Washington, DC were all featured on the … Continue reading
In the three years since yesterday’s 1964 edition, the B&O/C&O timetable shrank from 28 to 12 pages. Most of the main trains are still there–including the Capital Limited, National Limited, and George Washington–but the Shenandoah was renamed the Diplomat. Operating … Continue reading
