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This was the first Mallet locomotive to come up the C and O Greenbrier Division; Notice the carbon arc light with globe suspended above pole behind engine cab. This picture was taken several years after the first run was made in 1905.

1. Mallet Locomotive No. 752 Taking Water at Ronceverte, W. Va.

Shay No. 6 engine on tracks.  Published by C.E. Armstrong.

2. Shay No. 6 (Mountain Locomotive) New River Coal Field, Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad

Cass Mill in Backround (6 Stacks).

3. Chesapeake and Ohio Passenger Train at Depot

Train engine.  At bottom of pix says:  Note:  Also applicable to shop No. 2248, C&O Rd. No. 11 (1910), built to same plan No. 1586.

4. Shay Shop No. 1933 Chesapeake & Ohio Road No. 8

Deer Creek sign to the right, houses sit on the left side of the tracks.

5. House and Deer Creek Town Sign on Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Tracks.

Railroad tracks beside a building.

6. Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Being Built at Cass, W. Va. Mill Site

Four horses pulling a large log.   Neither the store nor the railroad building are still standing today.

7. 10 Foot by 4 Foot Oak Log Delivered to the C& O Railroad Station at Seibert, Pocahontas County.

View of Dickinson Salt Works from opposite bank of Kanawha River. Made about 1910. This is the only picture in existance showing salt loaded on barge for ferrying across river where it was loaded on C&O Railroad. The New York Central Railroad had served the plant for years before this picture was taken, but due to higher freight rates by the NYC, it was still possible to ship by C&O to some points at a saving.

8. Dickinson Salt Works as Seen from the Opposite Bank of the Kanawha River

Bird's-eye view of Greenbrier River, Main Line C. and O. R.R. and junction of Greenbrier division, Allegheny Mountains in the Distance.

9. Bird's Eye View of Greenbrier River, Main Line C. and O. R. R. and Junction of Greenbrier Division

Rails outside of the Mt. Carbon Station.

10. Mt. Carbon's Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Station

Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars after being filled.

11. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars at Mine Yard No. 204

A Chesapeake and Ohio coal car, corn shocks in the background.

12. Loaded Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car

Chesapeake and Ohio and Virginian Coal Cars with a shed in the background.

13. Coal Cars with Shed in the Background at Summerlee Mine

Chesapeake and Ohio and Virginian Coal Cars with a shed in the background. Taken at the Summerlee mine.

14. Coal Cars with Shed in the Background at Summerlee Mine

Caption on back reads, 'When better coal is prepared, White Oak will load and prepare it. We are proud of this picture of a car of "White Oak" Lump coal. This picture was also taken without the knowledge of the White Oak employees who loaded it. If you drive past any of the White Oak Mines on U.S. Highway 19-21, in Fayette County, W. Va., you will see many just like it.'

15. White Oak Coal in a Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car

Chesapeake and Ohio Coal cars coming out of a loading dock at mine 207.

16. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars at Mine 207

Chesapeake and Ohio Coal train cars in front of a community of houses.

17. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars in Front of Houses

Virginian and C&O coal trains outside of a coal town.

18. Virginian and Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars Passing By Miner's Houses

Hopper filled with 3 Inch Lump Export Coal Company.

19. Coal Filled Chesapeake & Ohio Hopper; Export Coal Co. Fayette County, W. Va.

20. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Car Loaded with Coal

21. Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars Loaded with Miller's Creek Block

Railroad and houses at the Summerlee Mine.

22. Summerlee Mine

Filled Chesapeake and Ohio coal car in front of a group of houses at Tams, W. Va.Picture includes: Betty Jean Seals, Robert Church, Doris Williams, Marlene Dews, Leroy Messingbery, Josephine or Ernestine Hill, Whitney Hairston, Wilfred Younger, and Charlene Jennings.

23. Beckley Coal at Tams, Raleigh County, W. Va.

Plant with filled Chesapeake and Ohio railroad cars beside of it.

24. Preparation Plant

Loading Chesapeake and Ohio railroad cars with coal at the Consolidation Clean Coal Cavalier Preparation Plant #207.

25. Consolidation Coal Company Cavalier Preparation Plant

Filled Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad cars lined up outside preparation plant.

26. Consolidation Coal Company Cavalier Preparation Plant

Chesapeake and Ohio railroad cars filled with three different types of coal.

27. Lump, Egg, and Stove Coal

Chesepeake and Ohio railroad car filled with stove coal.

28. Stove Coal, Price Hill Colliery Company

Chesapeake and Ohio railroad car filled with egg coal.

29. Egg Coal, Price Hill Colliery Company

Chesapeake and Ohio railroad car filled with lump coal.

30. Lump Coal, Price Hill Colliery Company

Houston Ware getting ready to board the 11:20 a.m. C&O train No. 14.

31. Chesapeake and Ohio Train No. 14

Tool shed sitting alongside the RR tracks.

32. Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company Chesapeake & Ohio Tool Shed

Picture shows the Chesapeake and Ohio section foreman's house.

33. View Up River from Fire Creek, W. Va.

Man standing next to a freight train.

34. Chesapeake and Ohio Local Freight at Fire Creek, W. Va.

Men standing amongst the remains of a Chesapeake and Ohio railraod car and other train wreckage on hte railway between Glen Jean and Thurmond, W. Va.

35. Train Wreckage on Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Between Glen Jean and Thurmond, W. Va.

Chessapeake and Ohio train cars full of coal.

36. Coal Cars at Summerlee or Cranberry, W. Va.

Taken at Cranberry mine, Chesapeake and Ohio Coal cars being filled under a tipple.

37. Loading Coal Cars at the Cranberry Mine Tipple

Chesapeake Coal Car getting loaded off of coal ramp.

38. Loading Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Cars

Kanawha Coal Co. tipple loading Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars.

39. Tipple of Kanawha Coal Company

Chesapeake and Ohio coal cars full of coal.

40. Loaded Coal Cars at Summerlee or Cranberry

C&O depot in Alderson W. Va. Men standing outside left to right: Moody Hokins, Harold Flack, Fred Patton, Floyd Thomas, Frank Bordurant, Agent T.L. Jamison, unknown, unknown, Freight Agent W.A. Hancock, J.C. Boggs (in doorway.)

41. Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Depot, Alderson, W. Va.

Telegraph tower located in Alderson W. Va. Operators: O.D. Massey, in door; J Abe Bright, on left roof; J.G. Houchins, on right roof.

42. Chesapeake and Ohio Telegraph Tower at Alderson, W. Va.

People outside C&O railway passenger and express depot (Adams Express Co.)

43. Portion of Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Passenger and Express Depot in Alderson, W. Va.

Telegrapher W.L.Knopp stands on right. Tower was known as "AD Cabin" and controled train movements between Ronceverte and Hinton. Twenty switches to Alderson sidings were operated here.

44. Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Telegraph and Signal Tower at Alderson W. Va.

'Interior of Chesapeake [and] Ohio Railroad Freight Depot at Alderson W. Va. At extreme left, behind counter is the station agent T.L. Dameron and standing on extreme right is freight agent W.A. Hancock (who worked in the Alderson station for fifty years. He was a deaf-mute.)'

45. Interior of Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Freight Depot at Alderson, W. Va.

Frontal view of the Woodson - Mohler Grocery Co. Wholesale Grocers building in Alderson W. Va. with C&O boxcar situated in front of building.

46. Woodson-Mohler Grocery Co. in Alderson, W. Va.

'Looking East Along Greenbrier River.'

47. Chesapeake and Ohio Single Track Main Line, East of Alderson, W. Va.

'C&O Train, The Huntington to Richmond Express at the breakfast shop by the Alderson House Hotel on the morning of April (?) 1885. The locomotive is No. 32, and the engineer is ? Noel.'

48. Huntington to Richmond Express Train at Alderson House Hotel, Alderson, W. Va.