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'Engine terminal, round house, coaling station, water thanks, machine shops, turntable and office building ca. 1950. The Guyan river runs between the shops and W. Va. Highway 10. This picture was produced just before the diesel came online with the C&O. All the shops are visible except the lower end where the pittracks existed.'

1. Bird's Eye View of Railroad Yard at Peach Creek, Logan County, W. Va.

IDNO:
025756
Title:
Bird's Eye View of Railroad Yard at Peach Creek, Logan County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1950
Description:
'Engine terminal, round house, coaling station, water thanks, machine shops, turntable and office building ca. 1950. The Guyan river runs between the shops and W. Va. Highway 10. This picture was produced just before the diesel came online with the C&O. All the shops are visible except the lower end where the pittracks existed.'
'This was a huge marshalling yard for the New River Region of the C&O railroad. This picture is listed as CSX because when the picture was taken on June of 2001, CSX that owns the yards at Thurmond. This is slated to become part of the New River National River...Town.'

2. CSX-Coaling Tower, Thurmond, W. Va. (Fayette County)

IDNO:
025757
Title:
CSX-Coaling Tower, Thurmond, W. Va. (Fayette County)
Description:
'This was a huge marshalling yard for the New River Region of the C&O railroad. This picture is listed as CSX because when the picture was taken on June of 2001, CSX that owns the yards at Thurmond. This is slated to become part of the New River National River...Town.'
A bird's-eye-view of the C&O Railway shops.

3. Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company Shops, Huntington, W. Va.

IDNO:
025758
Title:
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company Shops, Huntington, W. Va.
Date:
1942
Description:
A bird's-eye-view of the C&O Railway shops.
Shown a locomotive crossing a bridge over a river; noted 'sold by R.F. Whitmer & Co., Inc Dobbin, W. Va.'

4. Scenery Along the Western Maryland Railroad

IDNO:
025759
Title:
Scenery Along the Western Maryland Railroad
Date:
1913
Description:
Shown a locomotive crossing a bridge over a river; noted 'sold by R.F. Whitmer & Co., Inc Dobbin, W. Va.'
'This stupendous bit of masonry was one of the greatest achievements of early railroading. It was built as a retaining wall for the bed of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, by Benjamin H. Latrobe, along the Cheat River, near Rowlesburg, W. Va., enabling the railway to cling safely to the side of the mountain.'

5. Locomotive Passing Buckhorn Wall Along the Cheat River Near Rowlesburg, W. Va.

IDNO:
025768
Title:
Locomotive Passing Buckhorn Wall Along the Cheat River Near Rowlesburg, W. Va.
Description:
'This stupendous bit of masonry was one of the greatest achievements of early railroading. It was built as a retaining wall for the bed of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, by Benjamin H. Latrobe, along the Cheat River, near Rowlesburg, W. Va., enabling the railway to cling safely to the side of the mountain.'
'C&O Depot, Broad at 16th Streets...Richmond, Va... Picture about 1870. (This picture was part of the Cook Photographer collection. It is thought that the original negative was glass; that it cracked and that accounts for the dark streak across this print.)'

6. African-Americans at the Chesapeake and Ohio Depot in Richmond, Va.

IDNO:
025769
Title:
African-Americans at the Chesapeake and Ohio Depot in Richmond, Va.
Date:
ca. 1870
Description:
'C&O Depot, Broad at 16th Streets...Richmond, Va... Picture about 1870. (This picture was part of the Cook Photographer collection. It is thought that the original negative was glass; that it cracked and that accounts for the dark streak across this print.)'
'Last of her type.'

7. Camel-Back Ten-Wheel Engine Formerly Used on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

IDNO:
025770
Title:
Camel-Back Ten-Wheel Engine Formerly Used on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Date:
ca. 1901
Description:
'Last of her type.'

8. Through the Alleghenies, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Preston County, W. Va.

IDNO:
025771
Title:
Through the Alleghenies, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Preston County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1901
'How West Virginia is being checkered with railroads--junction of the W. Va. C.; R., C. & B. and B. & B. railways, near Belington in Barbour County.

9. Railroad Junction near Belington, W. Va.

IDNO:
025772
Title:
Railroad Junction near Belington, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1901
Description:
'How West Virginia is being checkered with railroads--junction of the W. Va. C.; R., C. & B. and B. & B. railways, near Belington in Barbour County.
'Recent type of compound freight locomotive used on the mountainous districts of the B. & O. R. R.'

10. Compound Freight Locomotive at Terra Alta, W. Va.

IDNO:
025773
Title:
Compound Freight Locomotive at Terra Alta, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1901
Description:
'Recent type of compound freight locomotive used on the mountainous districts of the B. & O. R. R.'
Copied from Pangborn, J. G.'s Picturesque B. & O., Historical and Descriptive (Chicago, 1883), p. 273.

11. Cheat River near Rowlesburg, W. Va.

IDNO:
025774
Title:
Cheat River near Rowlesburg, W. Va.
Date:
1883
Description:
Copied from Pangborn, J. G.'s Picturesque B. & O., Historical and Descriptive (Chicago, 1883), p. 273.
A locomotive engine on B. & O. R. R. near Buckhorn wall ( a part of 17 mile grade on Cheat River) in Preston county.

12. Locomotive at Buckhorn Wall on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Preston County, W. Va.

IDNO:
025775
Title:
Locomotive at Buckhorn Wall on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Preston County, W. Va.
Description:
A locomotive engine on B. & O. R. R. near Buckhorn wall ( a part of 17 mile grade on Cheat River) in Preston county.