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August
2007 In this
issue..
When one thinks of the C&O, one tends
to think of coal, and in this issue we have several
articles related to coal. First, we have an
article on the C&O’s extended radial-end 50-
ton hopper cars. Cars of this type are looked on
today as the archetype of C&O coal hauling
cars of the 1920s-1950s era. They were built on
the eve of WWII, and lasted until the late
1960s.
A second article in this issue is a direct
reprint from the November 1937 issue of
Chesapeake & Ohio Lines Magazine which tells all
about how coal was processed, sized, and graded
at the many tipples along the C&O. We’ve
included some photos from the Society collection
which are mainly from the 1940s-1950s
era, but they fit well because the process
described is the same up to the early 1960s
A third article in this issue is on the Pere
Marquette Mikados that were integrated into
the C&O roster after the June 1947 merger, and
were re-lettered/re-numbered. Since they were
all out of service by late 1951, photos of them
wearing C&O numbers and letters are rare.
Download
excerpts from C&O History August 2007.
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