W L * V - No* 7 July, 1973

THE CHESAPEAKE & OHIO COVER PHOTO HISTORICAL NEX~JSLETTER .r -7-1- .. - ,~ , . I ,D A I R FUMPS and s t a r - studded Volume V, Mo, 7

c;r:; inder heads h igh l igh t the powerful t--i.;.ze of Mountain ,:'545 a t Washington, The Chesapeake & Ohio H !%,+ i n 1940, the l a s t year of s p i t l e t t e r is published monthly by t ,ir-ci holieh f o r C&O's g r ea t passenger Chesapeake & Ohio His to r ica l SocLel;:J go xcr . fo r r a i l f a n s and h i s to r ians i n t

Flioto by Donald A , Somerville. i n a l l phases and epoc tory , Office of publ icat Xlderson, West Virginia

THOIIAS W , DIXON, JR. , publisher CARL I/ , SHAVEIi, managing ed i t o r l?ILLIki I R . V I V I A N , modelling ed i t o r

LE F T ROEERT E, JACKSON, business manager (see s to ry belorr)

TOP: BEFORE-H-8 ;;'I 61 6 b l a s t s up- We welcome your contributions, Please grade a t White Sulphur Springs, near BS ssnd a l l news and other a r t i c l e s di- Cabin, trith a heavy coal bag a t 9:30 recJily t o the managing ed i t o r a t 1145 a, m, , Thanksgivirg Gay, 1950, 3irzey Drive, Apt, 102, Glen Bllyn, 11-

Photo by Gene Huddleston (COHS 1080)" i a o i s 60137.

BOTTOM: AFTER -H-8 ~ 1 6 3 0 follows up ~nnv.a.1 subscr ipt ion r a t e s : F i r s t Class a s t he pusher. Lots of steam and sand. Mail, $6,50 ; t h i r d c lass , $4.23,

Photo by Gene Huddleston (CC% 1081). EOCO~11110WUGI1D0IIBDDDOBBODDDBDOBDBii)DDGIU

THE REST OF THE STORY

HUDDLESTON

If I had t h e money-isnft it $30 a day American plan?-I'd vacation f o r a week a-; t:,; Greenbrier, Vith my wife and son, natural ly , We could r i d e horsebacIr, play C 1 % l - hike, drink t h e "rot ten eggt' water from the springs in EuDaly has an o ld ad f.1. ,c.e r e s o r t l i s t i n g a l l t he diseases t he water w i l l cure), and maybe Ire could a l l w s ~ 3 o r over t o t he r a i l r oad s t a t i on . Would it be worth going back t o ? It - r%ras i n 1153 and 1951 and 194.9; operatin,- o ~ ~ t of t he West Virginian Hotel on a l l th ree t r i p s ( l a s t yea r ' s convention headquarters, and one of the be s t small ho t e l s you ' l l f i n d anywhere), I pl1oto;j;raphed heavy ac t ion amid glourious scenery. It was the same i n 1950, when t he photos t h a t accompany t h i s a r t i c l e [COBS 1080 and 1081, :o_pposLte] were taken, Althou& memory fades, I th ink I must have stayed a t a rooming house on t h a t t r i p ,

What comes out most strory;ly about t h a t t r i p is t h a t one of the most cheerful men I 've ever encountered inv i ted me up 31-10 i!S Csbin, a f t e r obseming me loaf ing near t h e cabin ea r ly on a calm, b r i s h t , ;-.?.IC Txdrsg iv ing Day, I was 19 a t t he time. The opera tor ' s aame was Feacc~ci:, I h l i c v e . I stayed up there u n t i l h i s t r i c k was over; he would t e l l me rihen one of t he 11,500-ton coa l t r a i n s rms reported ?as t Honceverte, and I would pick a spot i n ;;he v i c i n i t y t o photograph it. (See t he caption f o r t h e p i c t ~ l r e of ii-8 ,;:I616 on pages 200 and 201 of CetO Power,) I d idn ' t

3 , F; ngines coasting dor.xgrade. I d id shoot a sequence of no. 13, headed by Greenbrier ;::602, as it made a comparatively long sta- t i o n s top, k l l f r e i g h t s had &8s, with the exception of the e a s t and rqestbound 10- ca ls , each headed by a K-3 Mike, The shot of them passing i s i n C80 Power, on page 70, but unfortunately the qua l i t y of t he p r i n t and t he reproduction is r a t h e r poor. This is one ac?vanta~e of t he C&O ;-Iistoricla Society h a v i n ~ t!le negatives-we r t r i l l take pains t o bring out t he best i n every BPS negative,

M r . Peacoc rco~~ld severely d i sc ip l ine e n ~ i n e crews caught making e '~2 uhit2 depot, (yet even the most e f f i - c i e n t f i r i n g wouldnf t prevent shor?srs of cmal.1 cinders ra ining down on your head du- r i ng t he passage of those monster 1-1-8s; and along t he whole d iv i s ion cinders were ankle-deep along t he t rackside) . He a l so t o ld me of c e l e b r i t i e s staying a t t he Greenbrier who had sen t telegrams from h i s o f f ice , And how the company ser iously considered converting the p l an t t o electro-pneumatic and building a new tower a t t he ves t end of t he s t a t i o n platform,

t he good weather rms gone; it was snowing hard as I boarded No. 13 f o r t he t r i p t o Huntington, My most enjoyable v i s i t t o White Sulphur was y e t :A come, however, I n June, 1951, I spent about th ree f u l l .days ' hiking back and .Lo g e t good ac t ion shots, One morning a t rack walker (or maybe he was a s l i d e and- rw::?out watcher) about a ha l f mile e a s t of t he tunnel warned me t h a t near t he spot 1 t . t z "hunkering" on t h e h i l l s i d e awaiting a t r a i n , a la rge ra t t l esnake had b e e n 1.:. 3;: by a man berry - picking t he day before, Another day, as I stood above t h e t . .-.$_7. waiJLing f o r no, 13 t o emerge so t h a t I could shoot it passing the 2-6-6-2 on -t .. *-s tbound l o c a l f r e i g h t on t he s id ing below the tunnel (it bad been s i d e t r a c k e d

8 - ; 2 ~ e t no, 98 overtake and pass i t ) , a member of t he crew on t h e Mallet vent t o the -I;-xksicle phone and reported my presence as a suspicious character t o the DR. That afternoon the agent a t t he depot p o l i t e l y inquired of my a c t i v i t i e s ,

This was the last summer of full- t ime steam operation on k l l e g h a n ~ , and I shot H-8s on a l l dead f r e i g h t s and manifests, 2-6--62s on the l o c a l f r e igh t s , and J-3s and K-4s (2730 - 2739 and 2760 - 2769) on l o c a l and throu.gh passenger t r a in s .

My last s tay i n White Sulphtw was f o r th ree beau t i fu l clays i n June, 1960. For t he first time I had a car , so I ranged from Roncevcrte t o C l i f t on Forge, and t he bes t a c t i on I go t tras f i v e geeps on a vres-'ibound i r o n ore t i a i n (ex t ra 5821) slowly climbing- t he slope, The chanting, pulsat lnz , v ib ra t ing roa r of these locomotives working f u l l t h r o t t l e a t about 15 m.p,h, war almost as spine-t ingling as the double- s tack bass of an H-8 (well, not qu i te , but then we have t o make do with. what we have), The only turbocharged locos I 've heard on t h e grade were four U25Bs taking an eastbound coal t r a i n through For t Spring i n 196k The racke t was unbelievable, I thought ( i f such a thing were possible) t h a t a p i s ton rod must have been sl.@@w away wildly a t each clor.~nstroke aca in s t the engine cotrling, but I understand t h a t i l z i s is a cha rac t e r i s t i c sound of t he U-boats on a sustained grade, I

I can ' t c lose without mentioning t h a t a bonus f o r a r a i l f a n a t "Old Whitee" was -;,he number of Pullmans he would see i n the s idings there , both regular da i ly se t - ,, --s and spec ia l movements. The November, 1963, i s sue of Nodel Railroader contained

h:,:xy on White Sulphur, p r e s e n t i w it as a good place t o mod-el. Kr i t t en by Frank ,-"&fer, t he a r t i c l e included many good pho-tos by Kr-. Shaffer and others, as well

: :. c:el:ai7 ~d diai;ram 01 t h e trackage there. ++ $6 $+ .++ +$

, ? . s t t o d i spe l any no-Lions t h a t t he dramatic appeal of ra i l roading rassed away - i7 the steam locomotive, here ' s t he s to ry of an incident t h a t occurred. on Apri l 20

c the north end of the Southern Railway's Eastern Division, over which C6.O t r a i n s 1. (-: .l--ackage r i g h t s from Orange, Virginia, t o kF Tower, south of Alexandria,

bJ1 tl:is pa r t i cu l a r morning t he Southern dispatcher a t ,Greensboro, t o r t h Cwo- I? -.a-Z ,. -, decided t o hold ~ m t r a k / O Train 50 (known as 802 i n the Southern timetable) at O r a g e enterlocking u n t i l Second i;8, a long piggyback t r a i n with F u n i t s out of Eonroe, Virginia, bound f o r Potomac Yard., had cleared t he junction. The kmtrak t r a i n then ventured out onto the Southern's 110, 1 t rack and followed or! t h e r'.g~'!.gh2c t r a i n ' s block as far as Juena, where it picked up a red-over-green home s igna l au- thor iz ing its crossing over t o the Iio, 2 t rack i n order t o run around t h e f re ight .

3.1% it was twenty n i l e s before t h e cab on Second 8 came i n t o s i gh t of the C&O t r a i n a t Remington, on tne curve t h a t narks the beginning of a fourteen-mile tan-

i~ cetch up with th r e a r end of t he f r e i g h t gent, Even so, t he Amtrak Lrain did--"- u n t i l the t r a i n s ha6 pas~edE:~Ieton, foil;: mi1.e~ fLwthar cn, The Southern rws slow- ing down f o r Midland B i l l , avld i-50 sai:lsc? by him a t eighty on the upgrade, as re- vealed by a check of the nilepos-l;s, T,JG bicyclis-1;s on a nearby highway had them- se lves f r o n t row sea t s f o r t h i s every';, zild frox the esi;ressions on t h e i r faces , one could t e l l t h a t they were not oblivicils -to the drerna of nodern ra i l roading being played out across t he ro l l i ng farmland of norkhem Virginia on a Saturday morning,

-E, R , Conner, Char lo t tesv i l l e

The ac t i on a t Hudsonville [ ~ i c h i ~ a n ] was fur ious on Friday, June 15, a t 9:30 a.m. The dispatcher put two small eastbound manifest f r e i g h t s i n the passing s iding (ace headed by 3521 an4 3910, the o ther by 3006 ahd 3564)? while a long wes-bbound liunifest sped by with d&0 F7A ,:'4569 sp l iced between two geeps, The F u n i t looked as as new, with t he simpl 0" on the f l anks above f u e l tank and t he good-

' - 2 2 :. 22 s i l v e r trucks. It e l i gh t fu l l y clean --A1 Koole, Grand Bapid-s

:l.l,ockholders of the ChO approved t he formation s i e System, k c . , a t tho ,.. - :L ,skai-eowners' meeting two months q o , The main purpose of t he new h o l d i n g c:- sill be t o allow the r a i l r oads t o p r o f i t from t h e i r massive land holdinzs, . + ':;..A include 500,000 acres of coal f i e l d s , as well as timber land, a116 v a l u a b l e j2::operty i n such c i t i e s as Chicago, Detroi t , an6 3ichnoild.

Accordinr; t o 2oy 3, Anderson, t h e g r a in t r a i n s a r e moving a t a fiiequency o f about two per week, as of mid-May, One t r a i n had 196 of t he tarpaulin-covered ca rs . To give an idea of how much ;>rain i s movin,?, one ship recent ly took on 35,000 tons of g ra in f o r Russia, Since the l a r s e hoppers hold about 80 tons of g r a in (which i s l i g h t e r than coa l ) , th ree o r four t r a i n s would be needed jLxsL fo r t he one ship,

Another dumping record wlas a l s o s e t by the C&G i i ~ May, when 29,950 tons of coa l ?rent i n t o one sh ip a t the Presque I s l e ?os!:s i n Toledo, The coal a r r ived there i n 382 hoppers, which were dumped i n t o the hold st the r a t e of 4,8 cars per hou

The g ra in t r a i n s bound f o r I'ewport Xews do not a l l o r ig ina te at, the same C&O 5nterchargo point , We have had several r epo r t s of t r a i n s coming $-own the C&O's Chi- m g o Division. And the l a t e s t i s sue of &xtra 2200 So& repor t s t h a t the C&O has an 7,peement of some s o r t with t he M5ssour.i ?acir^ic llailroad by which g r a in i s collec- .:3d and delivered a t St . Louie ( t o t he 320, we assume). X2200 r e p o r t s t h a t CBO lo- co~no-l-.i~res excll~sively aye ~tsed. on these t r a i n s , even on t he DIoPac por t ion of the run,

c , o n c e r n i ~ A r t Mill ion's coiilments about t he m.u, capab i l i ty of switchers wi th !;ze~s ( p a ~ e 5, April , 1973, i s sue) , Ph i l S h ~ ~ s t e r m i t e s , "The Detroi t & Toledo S h x e -. !~r?n.-: frequently sends pu l l e r s over the Toledo Terminal Railroad trith a GP7 anG an NV2 together, so I ca l led t h e i r master mechanic and quizzed him about it. He saic: t h a t , a s o r i s i n a l l y b u i l t , the u n i t s were not compatible because of the reasons Ar t mentions, Ibwever , by making modifications t o t he brake stand and chan,;ing son^

wiring [kccording t o Trains engines irith n.u, receptacles with a d i f f e r en t number oB points can sometimes be mac1.e compatible rrhen the corresponding pins a r e matched --ed.}, t he u n i t s were made compatible, a t a cos t of about $2,500 per u n i t . E M - dently t he CC& has seen fit t o do the same on the u n i t s being ~ ~ s e d as reported by Nr, Buckley. "

Correcting h i s repor t i n the Apri l i s sue of "he Newsletter, Larry K. Fel lure , of lIuntiryyton, writes, "ilni-ts 57L1S3 621.9~ 55.91, and 5953 have not been repainted as first reported. Since then, ho~rever, other u n i t s a r e being spotted weekly i n Hu t ington Yard: 584LI., 5741, 5808, 5723, 5/29: 5'7G5$ 5826, and 61W. "

John D. Wright, of Cl i f ton oi=;e, obszi-ves t h a t GP7 ;Sf5829 i s the first u n i t with a steam generator t o ~ e t t he neu Chessie System scheme. "How about that ," he m i t e s , "a passenger engine j.i& g e t painteci i n [the nerr scheme]! "

CT-0 24 was i n the 3 & C t s Cumberland shops f o r r epa i r s on Saturday, June 2, The f r o n t railirgs were bent, and there was a l s o limited- damage t o t he forward areas of t he running boards, The cab had been "scalped", and was qu i t e extensively c '<%mpd. A l l a reas t o t he r e a r of the cab seemed okay, as did i n t e rna l pa r t s . No 17-, >resent , including t he a s s i s t a n t superintenaent, could confirm the loca t ion and c ~ ~ l - 2 of t he accident, Nor could anyone say f o r sure t h a t it happened on BPEO tr&- a - 7 , 3r ~rhy it rmsn't down i n Huntington if it hap -Neil Wood-

C:^O NW2s 5201, and 520e, both dead, moved t h r o ~ ~ g h Walbr iae a while back, A l o t o-f LF.ese ewines , which a r e use6 i n Michigan, go south f o r inspection, then r e t u r n t o Kichi,r;an f o r tiork. -Kirk Eise, Genoa, Ohio

1 have seen two GP3Os (3025 an3 3025) i n Char lo t tesv i l l e within t he last two veeks. They a r e only t he second and t h i r d u n i t s I ' ve seen here i n several years, Are these s t rays , o r have GP30s been brought south, much l i k e the U25Bs?

-Bil l l:IcCl~re, Char lot tesvi l l e

EDITOR' S )TOTE: When B i l l s l e t t e r vas wri t ten (ea r ly ~ a y ) , GP30s !rere still very much present on the Northern Rezion, d i spe l l ing the theory t h a t the GP30s as a c l a s s have been t rans fe r red , Perhaps the Chessie Systen i s jus t using a l l of i ts power i n the same system-rricie Tray as it c!oes r.r?-th the i7el.r GP4O-2s.

Here' s a question f o r someone i n oile of the CCO' s pa in t shops: Is the blue xsed i n t he new Chessie System schene darker than the blue shade which was used :xeviously? O r i s it the same shade, which &st seems darker because i t 's et off by the 1uri~;l;lltncss oi' %he s i ~ n o ~ ~ n d r i n g yellow?

Last 'Thursday, May 2L!,, trrenty-six ca rs of a i;usse3il-bounc! coal drag derai leg a t C a t l e t t s b u r ~ , Kent~~cIry, s p i l l i w cca l a l l o m r the place. The derailment r T a s cleared up within 24 hov.rs, bv.t the e f fec t s co~1.14 be seen. Since it happened jus t north of Big Sandy Junction, a l l l i n e s ea s t and south rrere i so la ted . On theBii;. Sandy Subc?ivision, pass in^;. s id ings began t o fill up riith over f lo~r loaded hoppers rrith no place t o go. By Ss the siclings vere being emptied, and the coal was r iov in~ north azain .

C2:O's problems trere not though. On Saturday, May 26, on the esst proach t o the 3 ig Sandy brid;1;e i n Kenova, ye s t Virginia, an eastbound t r a i n p i l e . m d guess what s p i l l e d over parked autos i n the vicinity-grain ~rhich rras bound L;. -,.he e a s t coast and the USSR.- C&O1s big s ec r e t is no s ec r e t any

After the Ilenova rrreck, a l o c a l merchant took aclvantaze of ~ K C L 4>;hg 12,000 bushels of the s p i l l e d riheat. The merchant, who - ,I-! i ,.-d .. - L c for $2.50 a b~~.shel , s tands t o make a profit-he b o u ~ h t t he

only a do l l a r a bushel.

longer!

--Everett Young

the s i t ua t i on by normally s e ll s dumped gra in f o r

Ea r l i e r , another rain t r a i n had derai led on the James iliver l i n e jus t west of Richmond. The l i n e was blocked f o r a pjhile, and the old James River 6c Kanawha Canal reportedly was closged riith the spillec? rain.

lil Koole, of Grand Rapi e s t h a t boxcar and caboose repainting re- mains a top p r i o r i t y i t e n a t t he jyoning &ops, m i t e s t h a t t he wreck t r a i n there has received qv.ite a treatment " ' i : j i~ : su7jL+-y ca r f o r t he hook remains green with yellow l e t t e r i n g , b ~ ~ t now has verrnillioll hxilr-reils. The hi: hook (DIG-8) remains ba- s i c black, but has vermillioll le t ter l iy ; , lxmdrails , an4 Ches- C , The same co lor scheme is followed on the tender l?X-103, a tank c a r with conlpartments f o r f u e l and- water-ed, 1.

Back i n t he January, 1772, is f the j;eprsletter, B i l l Ilic Clure, of Char- l o t t e s v i l l e , reported on trio cabooses, 903 971, ri!~ich had been s i t t i n g i n the yard f o r what ~ r a s s i x months a t t h a t now provides us ~ i t h an update: "The cabooses, both i n the old yellow, a r e s t i l l s i t t i n g i n t he yard here, L a s t :rsek they rrere moved t o t h e ca r r epa i r t rack, and I thought they would be leaving 1. ~,o,rn. Gut tinen they were moved 'back t o t h e i r o ld spot. They have now been on t h a t - c_.Xlnz f o r over two years ,"

Last Tuesday, May 8, GP38 ;;:3874, a l l cleaned up, headed a t r a i n of three hop- .,, <, :-osded rrith coal , t h e regular caboose f o r the crew, p l t ~ s one cleaned up f o r an . .,-; of r i d e r s t h a t was expected on t he r e a r car , which was CLO 3usiness ca r $25, '1- : ~ e i n l e f t here f o r Kot Springs a t 8:00 a.m. I have not been ab le t o f i nd ou t a

r.;. except t h a t filr. J. Edwards, t he geileral manaer of t h e Southern Begion: was on I. I have not been ab le t o f i nd out who the other r i d e r s were, There i s one clv.e,

>I :w.gh--a bunch of Virz inia E l ec t r i c i;orier Company o f f i c i a l s were i n Hot Springs at ;'.. same time, i n connection trith the power dan~ t h a t is ,-oirg t o be c o n s t r ~ c t e d i n 53th County, beginning nes t year. There has been very l i t t l e pub l ic i ty given it un- til norr. kccordin;]; t o the nerrs dispatches from Hot Springs, the dam r r i l l cos t $LcoO a i l l i o n , so I think our r a i l r oad i s bound t o ;;e-t i n on b r i ~ g i n g a lo-t of the mate-

- -Tar so enormous a p ro jec t ~cou l c l t h l s mean t h a t the CLC w i l l reconsider t h e i r .I, TIlus, t h i s may have been a meeting t o ;i-a1.1, n c - i l - i n 3 up t he sup-1)ly line, -Roy B. Anderson, Cl i f ton Forge

ii'ollowiny is a tabula t ion of the trackage abandonment p ro j ec t s processed on t h e (.;C s ince l a t e 1971. We hope t o provide information u p d a t i w t h i s mater ia l as n davelopments take p9ace. Information is accu of Apr i l 17, 1973.

TABLE I - ICC ORDER EXERCISED AND BRANCH LINE A ED

NO. I C C DOCKET NUN- ORDEB Sm- DATE SUBDIVISION, MILEAGE, arid LOCATION OF BER P J D (DATE) VICZ U T E A3AJXDPfi?-1D kEhI\JC8NED Ti34 CY&GE

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B'3:S??OXZ, 0.94 miles, from above Sel l?-er t o Ictnco, Kentucky,

TH Hk1JE3, 0,75 miles, from Cable- ton, PXchigan, t o end of branch.

m-3 26758 ( 8/13/71) 5 9 A~.,E:%N, 14.00 miles, from Hamilton t o k l legan, f i l ichi~an,

MI-10 26761 ( 8/13/71) 11 7/ 7/72 lWL4, 1.40 miles, from Ionia t o d m , Michigan,

MI-13 26967 (12/23/71) 9/11/72 1/29/73 HARBOR BEfiCii, 7.13 miles, from Harbor Beach t o Por t Hope, Michi:yan.

31-19 26759 ( 8/13/71) 12/ 7/71 1/14/72 OTISVILLZ, 9.00 miles, F l i n t t o O t i s - v i l l e , H i c h i ~ a n .

Y,!1-20 26762 ( 8/13/71) 4/25/72 3/15/73 JEDCO, 24.64 miles, Croswell t o Huron, Michigan. ..

J 27308 ( 1/13/72) 6/14/72 7/20/72 GLADE CREEK & RALEIGH, 0.29 mLles, from Blue Jay J c t , , West Virgih nia , t o cnd of branch,

. ;7C97 ( 1 ) 6/14/72 7/20/72 SURVEYOR, 2.05 miles, from Glen Ir!Mte J c t , t o Lester , West Virginia.

751 ( 8/13/71) 12/ 7/71 1/27/72 GLEN JEAN, 2.81 miles, k i l sy th t o 0 wald, West Virginia.

750 ( 8/13/71) 12/ 1/71 6/15/72 NEKD, 4.34 miles, from South Side Sct . t o Minden, West Virgini

liV-10 26756 ( 8/13/71) 12/ 7/71 1/27/72 SOUTH SIDL, 3.48 miles, from South Side J c t , t o 3ridge J c t . , W, Va.

MV-11 26754 ( 8/13/71) 12/ 7/71 1/27/72 KEHNZYS CREEK, 7.58 miles, ICeeneys Creek t o Lookout, Vest Virginia.

W-12 26995 ( I/ 7/72) b/26/72 5/17/72 HAXS $?EST, 2.81~ miles, Eawfrs ?!est, Vest Virginia, t o end of branch.

W-14 26854 (10/18/71) 3/ 6/72 5/17/72 GAULEY, 1.28 miles, from Vaughan t o (;reendale, West Virginia.

WV-25 26994 ( I/ 7/72) 4/24/72 ELUY CREEK, 0.95 miles, Kazy Creek t o Edwight , Vest Virginia.

W-29 26753 ( 9/13/71 ) 4/24/72 EORSE CREEK, 8.02 miles, Horse Creek J c t , t o Garner, West Virginia,

WV-32 26755 ( 8/13/71) 10/22/71 I/ 2/ ESS RUN-GEORGES CREEK, 3.00 miles from Ethel , West Virs in ia , t o end of bmnch,

IV-34 26752 ( 8/13/71) l0/22/7l 1/2 CREEK, 2.04 miles, Mallory t o i < ~ ~ f f s v i l l e , West Virginia,

i7-38 26856 (10/18/71) 3/ 6/72 5/17/72 PRICE HILL, 0.63 mllos , -from Fr ice H i l l Sc t , t o EL, Hope, 8 , Ira.

.. 26414 (11/6/70) 8/6/71- 12/15/71 MONDAY CREEK, 1949miles, fromKeL- 1 0/18/71 sonv i l l e t o New S t r a i t s v i l l e , 0 ,

1 : 21 projects, 126.72 m i . l e s abizdoned this far.

.., iL - I C C APPLICATIONS APPROVED BUT I C C ORDER NOT YET ME1RCISZD

0 I C C DOCKET HUN- ORDER SER- SUBDIVISION, MILEAGE, AND LOCATICN O F Em AND (DATE) VICE DATE TRACKAGE

-- - - - -- -- - - - .

?,lI-6 26896 (11/ 6/71) 10/10/72 ONEKilMA, 2.47 miles, Onekama J c t . t o Onekama, Iqichigan.

0-2 AB-18 ( 5/15/72) 8/39/72 ATXZKS, 13.13 miles, Nelsonville t o Athens, ( J ~ ? o .

V-6 26362 (1 2/22/71 ) 2/21/73 HOT s.-~LI!?GS, 21.98 miles, In tervale t o Sot L.jrii:ge, V5 ~ g i r P & .

TOTAL: Three projects , 37'58 miles

TABLE I11 - I C C APPLICATIONS FILED AND AisikIli'ING COI4MISSIOTJ DECISION

KO, I C C DOCKET NUId3ER AHD (DATE) SUBDIVISIOM, MILEhGE, and LOCATION OF TRACK -%

C-1 i:- ( 1/12/73) ER1E4UJ 7.96 miles, Qieau t o Blenheim J c t , , Ontario,

1- 9 AB-18 (sub, 80. 1 ) ( 4/ 3/72) REPUS, 15.03 miles, Remus t o Edmore, Kichi- gan, - ,- S G p j

(10/29/71) LAXEVIEW, 12.46 miles, Lakeview t o Edmore , Michigan,

L - '. A?>-18 (sub. NO, 4) ( 1/22/73) BAY PORTt 0.47 miles, Val. Sta. 63-f-54 t o Bsy Port , Michigan,

- , - - . - - A2-18 (sub, No. 3) ( 6/14/72) FORT AUSTIN, 7.24 miles, Kinde t o Por t bus- t i n , Michigan.

1-26 AB-18 (Sub, No, 5) ( 3/30/73) ELK RAPIDS, 8,82 miles, Williamsburg t o Elk Rapids, Michigan.

!<I-l? 26757 ( 6/13/71) NOBTHEORT, 3.62 miles, iiennies t o Iiatch' s Crossing, Michigan. Also, LEEUWN TRANSIT C O . , 24.04 miles, iiatch's Cros- - - s ing t o onorthport , J!ichigan,

V-4 26832 ( 9/30/71) V I R G I N I A A I R LIhE, 26.99 miles, Whitlock t o Etrathmcre, Virginia,

TOTAL: Eight p ro jec t s , 106.63 miles.

* Fi led with Canadian Transport Commission, F i l e No. 45955.

WTE: Since the e f f ec t i ve date of . t h i s repor t , Yne C&O has received permission t o abandon the Lakeview Subdivision, and has been denied permission t o abandon the Remus Subdivision. Dates w i l l be supplied when a ~ a i . l a b l e .

d 4 : C&O and Pere Marquette t imetables, both publ ic and employee, f o r various y e a s from 1939 through 1963; C&O a n n ~ ~ a l r epo r t s t o stockholders (1 946-1 965) ; 211 1946 annual repor t ; a l s o C&O --- Tracks Magazine, 25 i s sues from 1947 through iQ5!+, P c l ~ d stamped, sel f - - aildresscd envelope f o r de t a i l s .

J. D, Welsh, 1060 Sixth Avenue, Dorval 780, Quebec

Concernin? Gene Huddleston's ar t j .c le on the C&O i n bacBrqouds Hic l l igan ( ~ a ~ is- +.,) .; %,, , Ehgai~e Zank, of Alma, w i t e s , "The following branch l i n e s o r prts o f hxanch i i n e s vere abandoned i n the years shown:

Remus t o j3ig Rapids IS&? Mecosta t o Barsyton 1943 Rodney t o Chippewa Lake (ear ly 1920s) Remus t o Weidn1an 1944 Lakeview t o Howard City, and Howard City t o Greenville 1943 Stanton t o Haynor (north of Ionia) 19?4 Ionia t o Kidd (outside of deldinG) 1 943 Coleman t o Beaverton 1 944 Clare t o khmison about I9b4 darr ison t o Leota 1930s

"To my Irno~rled.ze, although the depression took its t o l l of t he branch Lines around %?.more and e lse ihere , a s $re11 as on the s~hols 2 M system, there may have been separate reasons f o r abandoment of var icus brsncl-!es. Tor example, a t 32 g Rzpids t he PM hzd c;. k'.i.l&c acrcss -Lh? ]/i.;.&e~pn S iver t h a t 1r;s In su.sh bad. s h a ~ e t h a t rs- placement was necessary i n o r d ~ r t9 co;i-tQr::s s x v i c e 7 but t h e cos t was too h i ~ h and t r a f f i c had. Cleterj.oratec! t o ct poin-ii that I:, dic!cl t ~ w - r a n t replacement o r repa i r .

"By f a r , t he more scenic bxznch of ;::;s trio ;!it of ,,dnore is the one t o fiemus. I can remember steam on t h i s b-;anc!~ i h c . ~ ? rzas a yoill?% one. X t one time i n Wyman, th ree miles north of Edmose, the Pk had s spur t - eck , t en c a lengths long, i n t o a re f inery and a potato c e l l a r t!lere. 30th went out i n the l a t e For t i es , and t he spur ms taken out-you can still see r~here it was. The co-op a t Remus used t o ship ou t bu t t e r i n r e f r i ge r a to r c a r s and o i l came out i n t a l k cars .

"Now, g r a in e levators a t Blanchard and Rems a r e almost a l l t ha t keep t h i s branch operating- jus t barely , I riould think t h a t t he 1'lew.s branch would KO within a year o r two [although the C&G s pe t i t i on t o a3andon has been denied-ed.]. If it Goes, it w i l l probably el iminate t he sn i tch i rg crew from Greenville t o Ednore and : . .' ., the branches. Edmore doesn' t have enough business t o irarrant a s ~ i t c h i r g crew - , - r r eenv i l l e . "

J..ne ikddleston wri tes , "Wen we v i s i t e d Plymouth recent ly , f i v e lighltrsigrht; ? - - . : .!see Road passenger ca r s were parked i n t h e f r e i g h t house siding. A l l seeaecl. t %'..: i n $ood condition, and no numbers were painted out. They were: 125, a "bus"-

.'"-, -& ?$ c2r; 612 and 618, coaches; 1351, a baggage-dormitory car ; and 165, a lunch- :; ;: L. 7ge cz7: , ''

k l e t t e r from Pau.1 liylton, of Zlymouth, expla ins t he ca rs . The f i v e ca rs irere pu.rchased by a businessman named Clavin Boles, who plans t o convert then t o a res - taurant on wheels, named the "Gold Spike". He has leased t h e spur from the C&O, and it is t o be taken out of service , , Boles a l s o owns a former Santa Fe bvsiness ca r , which is spotted a l o w s i d e t he Plymouth roundhouse,

Inciden-';sl.l~r, the frzigh-t hou.ss a t Plyr~outii is r,o Itonser v a ~ t e d by the C&C, who would l i k e t o see the c e n k r y - o3.d strucfurn razed. The c i t y of Plymouth, which is in t e r e s t ed i n savinc t he h ~ l l d i a , ~ a s 7. fa21i1a:-Ir, m y move i t t o another locat ion, M r . 30les had hoped t o use it as a nusam iiil cclrjunction with the new res taurant .

Although Netrport News and I?illic2msbur.,~ a r e i n danger of los ing Amtrak t r a i n s 98 and 99, they may s t i l l be serired by kimtrak, according t o a newspaper a r t i c l e which appearec? i n t he Newport Ferrs Times - Keral-d; l a t e i n Apri l , The service ? r i l l take the form of a commuter l i n e betrieen the two tor~ns , i f Amtrak deems the project finan- c i a l l y f ea s ib l e . The pro jec t was o r ig ina l ly eilvisioned as jus t serving t he Revport News a rea , b~!t Amtrak by lasr cannot operate t r a i n s t h a t don't operate between two c i t i e s , They may apply f o r r i g h t s i n t h i s case, accord in;^ t o t he a r t i c l e .

Garland Harper, of lynch bur^; , Virginia (rrho sees t o school i n Wil l ia insb~lr~) advises t h a t the passenger s t a t i o n i n Williansburz w i l l be converted i n t o the c i t y ' s bus s t a t i on , since t he present bus s t a t i o n i s being dexolishec! t o make room f o r other s t ruc tures , He says t h a t the f r e i g h t o f f i c e of t he s t a t i o n w i l l move i n to one of t he back rooms artray from the old t icket-off ice area . We have no word on prhen the change r r i l l take place.

From an old photo, taken around 1910, I have determined t h a t t he depots a t Ply- mov-th and howell [p?ichigan] were i den t i ca l i n design, The "new" depot a t Plymoutl~ nast be a complete remodeling of the old structure-or i s it a differen

-G

C&O TlEClINFERRY OPERATION FOR SUPB4ER, 1973

( t h i s scheclule s t a r t e d May 25, and ends on September 10, 1973)

Leave LUDINGTON, Iiiichisan 8 00 a m 9 00 am 3 00 pn 8 00 pm Arrive MfLWMJL~EE, Bisconsin 2 00 pm 8 00 pm Arrive I W ~ I T O i ? O C , ~ l i scons in 11 00 a m 11 00 pro

Leave kYANITOWOC, Wisconsin 1 00 ~ L I 1 0 0 a m Leave flIIUJAUKEE, llisconsin 0 pm Arrive LUDINGTON, Michican 6 00 pn 0 am 6 00 a m

I n addi t ion, the re is an i r r e p l a r service be5tr d Kev~uiiee , Wis- consin, rrhich averaces about four o r f i v e roand t r i p ding t o Jerry D. Ryan, of I"lusIre~on, -(;he CLO w i l l use the Bac!;;er, Spartann, and City of i,idland as its regular ships, with Pere Piarquettes ,1'21 and ,, 22 as spares, These a r e t he only f i v e ships that the C&O o m s now. J e r ry continues, "I ?:as informed t h a t The Pere Ma quet'ie #22 was damage8 i n a severe s to rn t h i s pa s t rrinixr on a t r i p from Milrrauk .to Lu6inc;-.-ton, and it is rumored t h a t she w i l l be sold o r scrapped. " She repor te receive4 cracks i n her h u l l as a r e s u l t of f i f t e en - t o twenty - foo t rqaves i n .the storm, Can anyone ver i fy t h i s f o r US?

f a t e i n Apri l , natural gas bv.bbled up through t h e ground a t llilliamsburg, M i - ,.- :-- .i :an, destroying some roads and callsing evacuation of the small town, Uilliams -- ji7.r- is on t he ~ 2 . 0 ' ~ Petoskey Subdivision, eleven miles north of Traverse City. . - ----.-.-orl.,-i? we do not know of any damage t o C2O t rack, t r a i n s could not be run north 0;' , l l l i ansburg clue t o the obvious safe ty hazard. ( ~ o s s i b l e i ~ ; n i t i o n of t he bubbling . - , Thus, nearly 70 miles of t rack between there and Petoskey vras i so la ted , 1 n >-:"ex t h a t i-'etosliey might s t i l l be servec?, t he CCO made a r raxements t o operate over . - w:c' Central trackage be-tween Traverse City and Fetoskey, The 2C l i n e s used a r e be-

., I.., .* considered f o r abanilonmc~lt, ' The. detour route was longer (by about twenty ~ i l e s ) ?nr? rg)nr . ic ;1- . r .a7>.?s n l o ~ ~ s (20 - 30 m.p.h,, as opposed t o 35 on the C & O 1 s l i n e ) .

THE GRAND EXCURSION on the C&O

By THOMAS kl, DIXON, J r .

The word s "igrand excursion" were of t en seen i n turn-of-the-century C&(j adver- t i s sxen ts , where spec ia l low r a t e s were offered on specia l t r a i n s from selected lo- ca t ions t o a c i t y o r o ther a t t r ac t i on . Excursions on the CetC were v i r t u a l l y unImown i n the formative years of t he roac? jus t a f t e r its trestward push, a s t he l i n e was ha- ving enough trouble jus t k e e p i n ~ the regu la r service i n operation amid its many phy- s i c a l p l an t problems and its f i nanc i a l troubles, b1~1.t t he excurs ionis t / tour is t w a s not completely for:;otten, even i n t h a t ea r ly e ra . I n 1875 a spec ia l gondola was f i t t ec t out t o operate on the r e a r of the regular "express" passenger t r a i n s between White Sulphur Springs and iCana~rha i%lls , so t h z t t o u r i s t s and v i s i t o r s could g e t an ~ n o b s t m c t e d , open-air view of the n a t ~ u t l vond.ers of Yne New Iiiver Gorge. This was a short-lived operation, and it did not snrvtve beyond t h a t one summer,

E-robably the l a r s e s t s ing le e v e ~ b occurring i n the f i r s t decade of CbG opera- t i o n s which would a t t r a c t l a rge crowls ras tne g r e a t Centennial of American Indepen- dence Exposition, held i n Philadelphia i n 1876. Special hal f - ra te excursion t i c k e t s were made ava i lab le by t he CBO, and on September 25, 1876, a spec ia l t r a i n ?ms oper- a t ed from Hinton t o i;hiladelphia, carrying excurs ionis ts from a l l a1on.t: the l i n e t o t h e Sxposition, then i n its last weeks of operation. The round t r i p f a r e from Ein- ton was $12.00, and excurs ionis ts were allowed t o r e tu rn on regu la r C&O t r a i n s within 15 days on t h e i r excursion t i c k e t . The next year saw the operation of seve- rsl spec ia l excursions t o accominodate those wishing t o a t t end t he p res iden t ia l inau- :-:fation i n Washingf,on, Two spec ia l s per day were operated on Piarch I, 2, 3, and 4, '. ';: and t he excurs ionis ts were %sin allowed t o r e tu rn on regu la r t r a i n s throu.,?h : -T I 8th .

A S t he road expanded and sought more passenger business, t he excursion becam a .I...- LL m t only t o add a l i t t l e ex t ra revenue t o t he treasury, bu t also a convenient v. 'c2-3 t o adver t i se t h e r a i l r o a d ' s passewer services , thus t h e excursion s tead i ly

.,.ed more encouragement from the Company, The first "popular" excursion o f T... ' A we have any concrete record was run from Ronceverte t o Huntington and Cincin- m t i i n 1879, stopping i n p r inc ipa l p laces en route , Soon excursions were beinz of- fe red f o r almost any event; a t r a i n was run from ~X.chmond t o Cincinnati , leaving the former c i t y on Apr i l 17, 1580, and a r r iv ing i n Cincinnati (v ia the irentucky cen t r a l ) on April I$, " fo r t he purpose of affording a chance f o r persons so disposed t o at- tend t h e 'rand Musical F e s t i v d t o be held i n t he l a t t e r c i t y on t h e Ig th , 20th, and 21st proximos; round t r i p t i c k e t s from White Sulphv.r, $i8.50.

Througn the 1880s, several spec ia l events occasioned ex t ra t r a i n s as well as those tihich the C&O vas always a%le t o drrm up d~~r in i - : the summer months t o f u l l y u t i l i z e i ts passenger equipment. I n 1882, spec ia l r a t e s trere i n e f f e c t f a r those at tending the Yorktown Exposition, and sevexi.1 spec ia l s were operated through Virgi- n ia t o Lee g a l l ( the s t a t i o n f o r yor~rtown), on t he just-completed Feninsula Subdivi- s ion of t he C&O. I n 1884, spec ia l t i c k e t s -to t he Few Orleans &posit ion were sold, and so on through the decade of expansion.

With t he dawn of t he golden age of the C&O under M. E. I n g a l l s i n 1889, t he frequency of t h e excursion business tioulc? increase t o i t s heicht i n t he years 1895 - 1910, the years of innocence f o r America, and f o r t he ChCi and he r people.

The first Vorldls F a i r of modern magnitude t o be held i n America was the Colum- %an Gs;>osition i n Chicago, cel~bratinc-; the 400th anniversary of t h e discovery of 2 - ~ e r i c a . S p ~ i n J . r : a - l c ~ r7cx.a pu t i n effect at all C80 s t a t i ons during t he fair, and,

7 w yrsnd e:cposition drew t o a c lose i n September and Octcber, l893, a i ~ ~ g e 11l.;i,l--

r - + ~ l a l t r a i n s vere operated s o l i d throu;.h t o Chicago from the C&G, t o a[-son-- , ::,~t minute v i s i t o r s , One pa r t i cu l a r t r a i n ran from riichmond t o Chicq,3 c

I. c1-a--=r 2, 3, and 4, the round t r i p from klderson costing $11 .SO, A t hlclersol;, 1 ? . ~ -.- : L . . ;orists boarded; a t Fort Spring, 28; iionceverte, 89; Lowell, Ij; Hj.aton, (5;'

: so l d r t h . Hr. 3. F, Turner, the C&O acent a t Alderson, iias himself one of thc E - ~ i : ~ r r ~ o ! ; i s t s , and he reported t h a t as the t r a i n l e f t ;Iuntin,yton it consistecl cl ij coaches loaded with 457 passengers, !Ie fu r ther reported i n a l e t t e r wit-kcn e n route t h a t "the t r a i n is makin3 excellent time, t he order is ;i;ood, an& -the 'Il- grims' seem t o be enjoying thenselves," From the tone of h i s messase, it might be assumed t k s t t he t r a v e l l e r s hzc! as m~~ch f;m rmking .irA? a-s they- 6id a t t h e i r des t inat ion, and thus r i m S0~ci1 the "popuiai- excursion" ?re &al l now discuss.

I n t he decade folloriin;, t he C&O woii?c! . ~ ~ l r l an s:tcursion a t the drop of a p icn ic basket, and they varied! f i - ~ m s y s t m - l-, .?tri t;-7s -t2 n ine- mile mns t o p icn ic grounds. Any ocnssion dcr,!zEded a i-r;l.;-.. j.,::?. t:.? Ct.3 ras or ly too happy t o s e l l the t i c k e t s and supply t h e eql-tipl-i.,ani,! P L C -,, 1 -tr-a.~:;n from tics-t Vircinia t o m s t o dun- - - . t ington and Cincinnati were al-31s IT -7 L ~ ~ - , : z - c l c -.LJTC:?S a r~eekend outing f o r the r u r a l f o l k i n one of t he g r az t cii;j.ec*, Lj,:?;;ise, pyuLa,r ti-ains operaJced out of the Nest Virginia and Virs inia t o v ~ ~ s -to t.I?.d.::r,.t~~: D, C, ; C Ld Xoiilt Comfort; At lan t ic City; Ashland, Kentucky; and Irontcn, Oh3.0, 3% such unl!l;ely totrns a s Alderson and l'ionceverte, Best Virginia, as trell as White SuZphur Sp?iq?s, were the s i t e s of ex- cursion operations from the c i t i e s , as the urban fo lk so~gh- t re lease from the crow- ded condit ions of t he c i t i e s i n del ights ; so t he t r a f f i c vas considerable i n both 8i rect ions . It was not umsua l f o r a treek2nd t o see a t r a i n carrying hundreds c f people out of t he small t o~ rns of Virginia and West ir irginia t o a c i t y , while a t r ~c mme time a t r a i n rio~tld be bringin;; c i t y people t o t he towns,

Zu f a c t , Alderson, with i ts pleasant summer clima-be, i ts gcod ho te l s , f i sh lcg , a ' ei;?.cious p icn ic areas , became so popular a stopping point f o r excursions i'roi,:

L ~ - 2 e eastern and western ends of the C&O t h a t some townspeople became dis-hrbed, ?: A - Ilowing appeared i n an I898 newspaper: "On Sunday the C&O ran all excursion I Z n m 2~ntin;; ton t o t h i s place [~ lde r son ] and f o r several hours t h e t o m rns

i- i;!? a nixed crowcl of pjhite and black, o ld and yo^!^, male and female; 12liclr -. , m L n vras orderly and. qu i e t , ye t , a majority of u s tfould p re fe r t o hare t l~csc>

:- -- ,Lens on soifie o ther day than Sun6ay, and hope t h e RR Co w i l l take the h in t . " ,- + L . . ? T J;.d not, and klderson s t ead i l y became more popular f o r the excursions, espe-

- , c.:.:i !.Q - i r m i-i~lntin&on and Ashland, and i n t he summer of '1900, the Alderson Advci-ti- sw er .:x-ialimd s t rongly asains-t the continued e::cursions, s t a t i nd t h a t Sunday was - grea t l y disrupbed by t he b r a s s bands, c?i-unks, and general irreverence, The riinton HemM took the occasion t o poke f ~ ~ n a t t h e Advsr t isnr ' s pu r i t an i ca l pre-tensions i n -- an e d i t o r i a l which appeared on J ~ m e 29, 1900:

The Aldersoil ~ d v e r t i s e r i~ l x t :;eekgs isslle starts of f with a t a l e of >roe patterrled ?re :,el i eve a f t m the zarkersburg platform . , . it succeeds i n eay:i.n;; t h a i 5,~: 13.- %lm;.tj f u 1 t o m noted f o r i ts morality pias made a d.uin?;\ii-g c-co~~t~cl f o r the CLG excu.rsions on t he Sabbath, it i s t o 3e re,rc-LCc(: that t ke qu i e t t o m oi" Alcler- son i s t h ~ ~ s disturbed and t l ; L ~ i ; 55 Zi;:? 'been_ ~ ~ 1 . b j e s t t o hardships' by t he b rass bands and bass drun, TJ!IS~I 0i113r Juce [sic] harps and cornsta lk f i d d l e s were t o be used on Sunday, Yilsther o r not t h e c?mg s t o r e s d id t h e i r regu la r s ide door b ~ ~ s i n e s s [s;hiskeyf as they have done f o r years , t he Advertiser f a i l s t o say, but we presume they did, a s it adds t h a t ex t ra po l ice had -to be h i red and men- t i o n s Fad rrrhislrey (we understand t he Alderson rih5sBey i s bad) as WI i n.j~n'?/ 1.0 thc ~mu-a7 .c d' the cornm~ni.ty, Be understand t h a t t he

f r e e f o r a l l cli-unken row rrhich occurred i n the Aldcrson ho t e l re- s not on $he exctlrsion day, but a few Surdays previous.

And there was no excursion crovc? o r no in f lux of fore ign popula- t i o n a t t h a t time, We f e e l assured tha-L the equilibrium and r e l i - g ious meditst ions of the Advertiser rnan were not a f fec ted a t t h a t time by an i n f l ux of population of f o r e i sne r s on the Sabbzth day, beinc only the tov.:hs of t he t o m rrith which he rras every clay i n contact, and t o which he p a 3 no a t t e n t i o n but has sesened a l l of

,cursion h i s l a t e n t powers t o p i t out h i s v i a l s of wrath on the eTr party. If the concensus of opinion of t h a t torrn i s opposed t o ex- cursions and brass bands and it i ~ , s manifested t o 'che CLO off i - c i a l s by a proper p e t i t i o n we f e d sure t h a t i n t he fu ture t he un- welcome burden on an unof fend in~ comlllv.nity w i l l not be repeated, b~.t the company could no doubt be i n d x e d t o run a l l escursion t r a i n s thro~i-gh t h a t qu i e t v i l l a s e wi-tl~out s t opp iw so a s not t o i n t e r f e r e with t h e i r sonnambulistic o r cabalept ic condition.

To be sure, the excurs ionis ts were often a ro~rdy l o t . Whether t he escursione t o Alclerson were stoppecl we have no indicat ion, but t h a t t he populari ty of the ex- cursion a s a means of l e i s u r e time occupation increased i s doubly manifest, In t h e summer of 1902 the C&O >?as running from one t o sever1 excursions per day on i t s l i n e s in VTrginia anc? \Jest Virginia, inclr~-din;. many b;:ansh l i ne s , f o r such purposes as church soc ia l s , lodae picnics , baseball ga~aes , f i s h i n ~ t r i p s , o r jus t f o r general p r inc ip les .

It was the aze i n ~Sqich America rws energin& inJco t he s t a t u s of world power, and her people-her common people-now liacl l e i s u r e time, and ai'-ter a l l , it tias the rail-way aze, so irhat could be more ne.-!x~r&?. an ov.tlet of t h i s leisure-time energy t 2 : m i n railtray t r ave l . So it rema inec? f o r t he sunny, innocent days of the f 2 r s t c?-.caTLe of our centv.i-y, 0u.r people ITere con,benL vrith a S L I C ~ ~ Y afternoon t r a i n t r i p ;,:-: -f;'n,eir f avor i t e p icnic a rea and a longer tri~ t o see t he s i ~ h t s of the r i s i n g c i - t r,;mbolizinfi; t h e i r nationT s risiilc power, It vras the age of t he simple plea- s . ".?, comnon enjoyment i n the grandeur aild beauty of nature, and creak and swel- - 7 -.r.i,cie i n t he acc,omplishmient of our 11s-Lion. But i"irov.ld not l o ~ g last; Amer- A-- &

- . J - -re11 a s the world, rer re shocked t o r e a l i t y by t he cataclysm of World Car I. r l t , ;d r.rou.ld ne-mr be t he same, The l a s t we hear of excursions of t he old mold .?. . -, he years jus t p r i o r t o 1914, but even then t he populari ty had diminishecl and 'i .i not even then being run i n anywhere near the d a z e l i r ~ profusion t h a t 2302 ' - I _. 8

- . . i ::n the .~!proarious days of t he Tprenties we hear l i t t l e of excursions of 2ny . . . '-,he ,Great Depression l e n t no encouragefilent t o t h i s f r i v o l i t y . The ?fJor3.i'L! s

i ;LI.-:.~ i'2 ..:?j3 and 1939 i n Chicago and Xe1.r York prompted t he Cc50 t o o f f e r specia l ex- c - ". :.:131; :: .:. :.es and b u r packaces on i t s r e ~ u l a r t r a i n s , and some spec ia l s were rL1.n a s e;. ' -..., . ec.:. i,::::jns t o regular t r a i n s , The ChO a l s o e lec ted t o a t t r a c t f u r t he r spec ia l t . 1 . ~ . . : q L .::; I:; t he operation of specia l - trains f o r 3oy Scout troops and other s ~ e c i a l Tt;+ x.c .. ,$ . . . , :

.. , 3-... : ..:-:.ng them t o t ou r h i s t o r i c loca t ions along t he ra i l road , o r t o ever- n yc?r,:i 1 ~ : L... : '-. '.~ig-Lon~ D, C . lhe inau.guration of President Roosevelt i n 1932 a l z. o

3roi~;h.t A ,-r:+at number of spec ia l movements over the C20, incl~lCl.in6 second sect ions .C i. o r a l l -:-.. :- ::'r;nund t r a i n s f o r the th ree days preceding t he inaugurat3.on. I n 1731, Yorkto~in -i.: -.. asa in the scene of a celebration, and C2O spec ia l s were operzted. f o r .L 7 ~ l l e occ~:-.l- .,... On October 16, 17, 18, and 15, 1931, recp la r ly scheduled excursion

-. t r a i n s -if:-:J- ::sr.port Nem t o Lee Hgll (~orkborm) were run t o carry l o c a l people t o the eved . Y:,? C2O a l s o popularized tourism along i t s l i n e s by i n s t i t u t i n g a spe- c i a l pack-: t-;.: krjur i n t o ~7ha.t it ca l l ed "i.Iistoryland", trith v i s i t s t o many h i s t o r i c loca t ions iil Virginia, bJhen l a rge Zroups were accommodated, a spec ia l t r a i n xias

- c ~ . a l ~ - y the Ristoryland t o u r i s t s u t i l i z e d regu la r t r a i n service . B L L ~ L ~ Q i r; ;f t h e Th i r t i e s were i n no manner comparable t o t he p icn ic basket Lr' ; -,

% L , . 2, a-. I % 8,~--n - of - the - century era . The world aged immensely i n t h a t score of yo?;..;..

:A?C -lie t r a i n was no lancer the vehic le of pleasure and l e i s u r e ; already it i?acl. 'ce s . .*.i.-f Le.' by t he automobile and re legated t o more e f f i c i en t tasIrs of Ion;; ciir,tancs . : - c 9 y -xz.bion,

Vozld IJar I1 r an i ts cou-rse, and the re tras no time, money, o r energy t o 7 i d s t ~ -

on e x c ~ ~ r s i o n s , and. aftersrards the re was t o be no more thought of railtray passer??er service , l e t alone excursions, Zany spec ia l t , rains were run i n these decades, but they were s t r i c t l y f o r transporta",on, r h i l e i n tlie o lder days t he t ranspor ta t ion was the purpose of tha t r i p , the d~stii1:ttion bej.ng ouly i i ic identa l t o the r i d e ,

Gene ilv.ddleston provided u s with t h i s in fomat ion about the number of engines <?-?a-tched per day from various terminals on the Pere Marquette Railwajr. H i s source :- c r an o f f i c i a l PN data book clated 1943. A l l terminals a r e i n Nichi,-a;l unless o-l;hw - - - , s ta ted .

d m a 1 h d i n g t o n 11 ?ad Axe 1 Montrose (where?) 3 Bay Ci ty 2 MusIte~on 9 Bcnton Harbor 3 New Euffalo 8 XOCT (IU i no i s ) 6 Ottarra 15 ChaJcham ( ~ n t a r i o ) 6 Petoskey Clearing ( ~ l l i n o i s ) 11 I lymou t h Detroi-t 38 Por t Huron Edmore 1 Rougemere Ensel 2 Sagrinzw 30 Erieau (Ontario) I S t , Thomas (Ontario) 17 Evar t 1 Sarnia (Ontario) 4, ii'l i n t 8 Tjcsrerse C i t y 5 Grand Ledge 1 Toledo ( ~ h i o j 4 Grand Rapids 5?. iPt , GV --e;.ly 7 Greenvil le 1

Some months ago the 1Tewsle.t te;: -:cvleile2 ';he 3ei;ly-es tablished r a i l f a n publica- t i o n devoted t o ra i l roading i n the S~~.%. t2~,s i , aslll:ci ~~~~-f;~~ur~~e~n Railfan. Since thdt time, SR has shown g r e a t imcrovemmt i n i ts report ing of current events, and i s q .

KG: inuring t o delve i n t o the hls-koi-ical aspecks of i t s ajren. Tne CBG treatment usu- ,. 'ly doais wit.h t he hmtrak p a s s e z e r operations, with o r~ ly ;;enera1 news, b.t more C:,,.: n,::tor;::l I s promised. Heavy coverage of the Southern, U I J , and SCL a r e inclu- c' -,', T-i; i s a I;i3hly recommencled magazine f o r anyone i n t e r e s t ed i n ra i l road ing south cJI tile I hcc~ : i - l : i ~~n Line (see August, 19'72, i s sue of t he Ferrslet ter f o r d e t a i l s ) ,

THE C&O . . . OHE IlrJilJDRED YZARS AGO THIS MONTH

(as compiled from iss~ms of - The Railway Gazette on f i l e a t the Library of Congress)

J-JLY 19, 1573: Cars besan t o run through the Lewis Tunnel, July 4. Heretofore a tenporary t rack has been used a t t h a t point . By the completion of the tunnel a saving of some 20 min~tles i n time is made.

iOCOTiOTIVE Am STATION PHOTOS: I 'hoto~raphs of many CBG s t a t i ons i n V i r ~ i n i a and l iest V i r ~ i n i a , as well as some from other s t a t e s , Some of the sta-bion photos, a s r ~ e i l as a l l of the steam loco photos, rrere taken i n t he ear ly 1930s by Nr, Billiam Plonypeny. These photos ( s i ze 122 negatives) aye avai 7ab7e a s fnl7otr.s:

Contact p r i n t s (on double weight postcards) $ ,5O. 5 x 7 p r i n t s $ .?O. 8 x 1 0 p r i n t s $2.00,

Other s t a t i o n photos, taken recently, a r e pr iced a s f o l l o r ? ~ : L 3~ x 5 p r i n t s $ .25.

5 x 7 p r i n t s 8 ,YO. 8 x 10 p r i n t s t,;2.00,

A l l orders f o r s t a t i on photos (send stampec?, s e l f - addressed envelope f o r l i s t ) should be sen t %o: Mr. C, L. Andxews

42.31 S.i:. 38th S t r ee t West Hollywood, K o r i d a 33023.

Orders f o r steam locomotive photos ( S ~ L fo r l i s t ) should go to : M r s . Deipha Monypeny 3285 i;.ltJ. 30th S t r e e t Miami, Flor ida 33142.

.%RTR4IT SERIES: This Pere Karquette 2-8-0, :lass C-2, ( b u i l t by Brooks, 1905)~ i b ~ b v i o u s l y a well-maintained enzine, judging from t h i s photograph. Date and loca t ion L:;Z unIaoan . Fhoto from the co l lec t ion of T. 8. Dixon.

-. ?T S G G i Y : C?;C (?ere Narquette i l i s t r i c t ) Train 9, the Pere N a r q ~ a t t e ~ l e d by

- 17J 131 and 3e), ~rreckec~ a t Michigan Ci ty , Indiana, on February 15, 1963. Consist 2,: an RrO, a baggage car , two coaches, a diner , a lounge, and trro more coaches.

brain was operating a t 63 m.p.11. when it s t ruck a Kroger t ruck on the U. S. fioute -2 crossing, with these r e su l t s . Photo courtesy of John i>lothwell,

- - .AJC2i L W Y : Several l a d i e s and a gentleman, about t o take a typ ica l t~~rm-of- ;:-.E?-century excursion, pose a t Alclerson, West Virginia, on the running board of A t - .-snLic #El , rrhich was ab0v.t t o take .$heir Sunday school p icnic specia l t r a i n from llderson t o I h i t e Sulphur Springs f o r t h e day. August 25, 1908,

Hioto by W, Ill, Stevens, from the co l lec t ion of T. V. Dixon.

The CW H i s t o r i c a l Socie-by i s p repa r ing a n e x a c t repr \ .duc t iou 01 t h e Ta i l - s ign ::r Drum-head used on t h e famous FFV i n t h e 1930 's and 1 9/10ts, reproduced d i r e c t l y from o f f i c i a l C&O d r a ~ l i n g s , t o e x a c t s i z e , The d e s i g n f e a t u r e s t h e famous FFv l e t t e r s and ac r017~wo~k a s w e l l a s t h e name s p e l l e d out on t h e lower s c r o l l .

This reproduc-hion w i l l be e x a c t i n g and w i l l be p r~d-uced by silllc--scxcen -. m-bhod, liar convenience i n t r a n s p o r t i n g , e t c , t h e reprcduc-kion w i l l

be on 1/8th i n c h p l e x i g l a s s (Glass r e r r o d u c t i o n s can be nade b u t must ba nicked up by purchaser i n person a t ~ l d e n s o n ) . S i ze o v e r a l l x24G and c o l o r s a r e r e d l e t t e s l i n g on whi te background,

The s i g n s a r e n o t mounted i n any form, but w i l l be i d e r l f o r an? w a l l d e c o r a t i o n , They can , of cnurse , be adapted f o r many o t h e r d e c o r a t i v e u s e s , Frams c u s t o ~ l made can be made a v a i l a b l e upon reques-G

Only enough of t h e s e r ep roduc t ions w i l l be made -bo f i l l r e s e r v a t i o n o r d e r s , s o - b : ~ i n s u r e g e t t i n g you r s , de t ach th is c:)upon and n a i l to 11s a t once, a long wF%h ,*,I 0 ,00 depcisi t .

Cos t ; i25,OO Deposit$10, 00 IZeiilaFnd e r due upon shipment an2 b i l l - i n g ,

-2 in t he pe r iod 1930-1 950. C cmpl icated d e s i g n w i t h name 3f t r a i n ' "*

scenes of g:)lfers, swimers and t e n n i s p l a y e r s , This a l s o i s re - - -,'uctcd e x a c t l y from o f f i c i a l C6.0 dra; j ings and !;leaswes 24'1 x24;i

; 7 ,1exig7as(or gllnss), Cost i s ::,50,00, This i t e m i n hand pa in t ed and : j ? i i r i n r ~ b l e t ime should be a33owect f o r p roduc t ion a f t e r o r d e r , ii 5 cLJos i t of :?20,00 i s reques-bed w i t h o rde r ,

AmUNCm'llENT! -------------

w i t h a g rea t d e a l of r l e a s u r e t h a t I ire amiomce the a v a i l a b i l i t y r

of our f i rs t Ghesapeake & 06io Socie ty Eamphlet, e n t i t l e d CHESAIEAXE & 01310 IIIGEITV?EIGET PASSEBGGR XCiUIPl%NT, 1 946-1 972 by Herbert H. Har- wood,Jr. - The Booklet c o n s i s t s of 30 pages , f t e x t ? inc luding 17 photographs and f i v e o f f i c i a l C&O diagrams, and tzes-ts the h i s t o r y of t h i s eguipmen-k from i t s incep t ion %o i t s f i n a l o r c u r r e n t d i s p o s i t i o n . Included a r e a l l s a l e s and r e s a l e s , nursberiizgs and renunbersngs, inc luding A f ; W K numbers f o r those c a r s ul 'cinately reaching t h e i r ownership, Each c a r i s t r aced thraugh i t s exis tance , nv,!i?'uer by n w ~ b e r . k l s o included is much backgmmn.2 information on "c~e purchsse and use of t h e c a r s . Dia- g r a m i l l u s t r a t e the mt-sL cormon types of c a r s and photos i l l u s t r a t e almost a l l types. Included a r e phc~tos and complete h i s t o r i e s of t h e Pege Iiarclue t-be equipnent , The Chessie eqvipment and t h e l a r g e order ' 6 i e m ~ i p n e n t f o r t h n T t s n a i n l i n e passenger opera t ions , a s w e l l a s a page of h i s t o r y and r o s t e r o f NT(P equipment hat was ordezc- ed a t t h e sane time,

; nus t f o r any C&O f a n and any passenger se rv ice buff . Size: 8*xl I , I -o fess iona l ly p r in ted on g l o s s and p b b l e s tock , s t ap led once, A -;ci:TJ~h of informa-tion.

This b o o k l e t w i l 1 be a v a i l a b l e i n a l imi ted quan t i ty , so o rde r ea r ly . 2kippecI F i r s t Class PLail,

Er ice : $2,00 t o C&O H i s t o r i c a l Socie ty members $3.00 t o nm-rneribers

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3 Admiral B l W , Dundalk, fPld 21 222

Please send me me= copies o f C& H i s t o r i c a l Socie ty lamphlet No.1 - C&Q rig_h-h --- Fassenge-z ,sc$ipnent, - - - - 1 946-1 --.-- 972, I enclose :, r -We-

i z paylnent for same,