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Holiday 2007 In this
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With this issue we cover some history pertaining to the great resort hotels served by the Chesapeake & Ohio, a subject that hasn't received much treatment in this publication over the years. Joanne Buchanan, who specializes in collecting C&O advertisements, presents a good summary history of C&O's major resort and vacation hotels along with some period advertising that illustrates how the railway publicized this aspect of its service.
We also deal with The Resort Special , a short-lived service that operated in the 1960s strictly for the benefit of patrons going to and from The Homestead and The Greenbrier hotels, C&O's two “Springs” resorts in the mountains of western Virginia and West Virginia. Over the years, the Greenbrier has been highly identified with the C&O because the railway owned and operated it as a subsidiary beginning in 1910. It is still, of course, in CSX's camp today.
Between 1948 and 1953 C&O built or purchased about 19,000 3-bay, 70-ton cars from American Car & Foundry, Bethlehem Steel, and its own Raceland Car Shops. In trains of the era these cars were very evident, intermixed with older 3-bay cars and the many 2-bay types. Of this group of cars this article will illustrate, in a very brief way, cars in two series: the 100000-101999 series built by ACF at Huntington . W.Va. in 1951, and 102000-102999 series built in the same year by the same builder. Don't miss this very informative and interesting piece,
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