num_pages: 108
description: A new look at mines, towns, trains, people that were involved in transportation of coal from mine to market on C&amp;O in the period 1945-1960. Chapters include Background; Coal Fields Motive Power; Coal Fields Rolling Stock; C&amp;O Coal Operations; Coal Towns; Mines &amp; Tipples. Most photos are from C&amp;O official files and illustrate every aspect of coal mining and transportation. Maps show branches and their relationship to whole scheme. Ideal for C&amp;O fans, modelers, and those interested in the coal fields of Appalachia. If you have the C&amp;OHS’s 1995 book C&amp;O in the Coal Fields, this book is ALL NEW, and does not repeat the photos or data.
language: English
title: Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in the Coal Fields of West Virginia and Kentucky: Mines-Towns-Trains
titlecomplete: Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in the Coal Fields of West Virginia and Kentucky: Mines-Towns-Trains
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.