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- IDNO:
- 048700
- Title:
- Portrait of Collis P. Huntington, President of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Huntington was the president of the C. & O. Railway when the line moved, in 1972, into what would later become Hinton and Summers County, W. Va.Huntington purchased, for the railroad, all the land where the City of Hinton now stands at public auction. He later purchased from the railroad all the land that would not be used by the railroad.
- IDNO:
- 048813
- Title:
- C. & O. Engine No. 128, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Looking at the engine sitting on the tracks, following by train cars reading, "Chesapeake & Ohio".
- IDNO:
- 048814
- Title:
- C. & O. Train Passing through Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1890
- Description:
- Two unidentified railroad employees stand beside Engine No. 201 on the C. & O. Railway.
- IDNO:
- 048816
- Title:
- C. & O. Train in Avis Yards, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1950
- Description:
- Engine No. 307 pictured pulling "Chesapeake & Ohio" cars.
- IDNO:
- 048842
- Title:
- C. & O. Engine No. 500 in Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1947/06
- Description:
- Photo of the first coal-burning, steam, turbine, electric engine--the largest single unit locomotive in the world. As long as 154 feet and 9 3/4 inches, including the water tender. The top speed was 100 miles per hour. The engine weight 411.5 tons.
- IDNO:
- 048848
- Title:
- C. & O. Engine No. 500 at Hinton Station, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- A crowd observes an early diesel engine at the station.
- IDNO:
- 048850
- Title:
- Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Engine at Hinton Station, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1947/06
- Description:
- Passengers stand beside the track looking at engine no. 500.
- IDNO:
- 048851
- Title:
- C. & O. Railroad Emloyees Beside Engine No. 602, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1955
- Description:
- Engineer L. J. Brown, left, and fireman Lloyd Bryant, right, are pictured next to the locomotive.
- IDNO:
- 048905
- Title:
- Power Plant beside C. & O. Yards, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1983
- Description:
- Looking at power-plant structures and equipment from the C. & O. railroad yards.
- IDNO:
- 049234
- Title:
- John " Cannonball" Burdette and Associates, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1960
- Description:
- The C. & O. engineer Burdette, pictured on the far right, laughs beside two unidentified men.
- IDNO:
- 049253
- Title:
- Mrs. Diefenbach on Horse, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1920
- Description:
- Mrs. Diefenbach pictured with the horse she rode to and from the cabin.
- IDNO:
- 049254
- Title:
- Mrs. Diefenbach and Horse by C. W. Cabin, Hinton, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1920
- Description:
- Diefenbach, a telegraph operator for the C. & O. Railroad, rode this horse to and from the cabin.