In 1953, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad put out a series of tour guides to major cities and destinations along its route. We’ve previously seen ones for Charlottesville, the Virginia shore, Washington, and Williamsburg. None of them are dated, but they were advertised in a 1953 C&O employees’ magazine.
Click image to download a 7.1-MB PDF of this 36-page booklet.
paintings for General Motors locomotive division. While the C&O paintings are less stylized than the GM ones, they tend to have in common the placement of people and/or trains as tiny characters in a world of tall structures and/or mountains.
What makes them particularly special is the covers that were all painted by Bern Hill, the artist who did the wonderfulPersonally, I don’t really yearn to have visited Richmond in 1953 due to the ingrained racism of the era. Fortunately, the C&O took a neutral stance on the War between the States, as the booklet called the Civil War. “Selfish men have betrayed” the city, the booklet notes, but it was referring to Benedict Arnold leading British troops in capturing and burning the state capital in 1781.