Equipment

Beginning in 1982 the C&OHS has acquired through purchase or donation several pieces of former C&O passenger and freight equipment. The initial aim was to restore the equipment both aesthetically to a selected period and mechanically so as to be operable on excursion trains. Since that time the Excursion train business has essentially evaporated. The second thought was to move the equipment to specific locations to use it for historic interpretation at festivals, fairs, and events, but the cost of movement by freight train and the increasing lack of availability of sidings in appropriate locales has essentially ended this process which had gotten to a fairly good pace with out cars having been used at several locations including Lynchburg, VA, St. Louis, MO, Gaithersburg, MD, Alderson, WV, Huntington, WV, Fredericksburg, VA, Hinton, WV, as well as Clifton Forge, VA.

The present intent is to continue restoration of the equipment cosmetically with minimal concern about road-worthiness, so as to establish a museum/interpretive site/park at Clifton Forge, with the rolling stock and the freight station building as centerpieces.