C&O THROUGH THE NEW RIVER GORGE CALENDAR BUNDLE
Now available in this discounted bundle, own the complete Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Through the New River Gorge calendar trilogy, complete with many never-before-published photos from the C&O Historical Society archive as well as externally-researched sources. While the calendar months might be in the past, the high-quality photos and detailed captions are timeless and read like a booklet on the railroad and industrial history of this rugged region where nature was conquered by machines and human grit throughout the 20th century.
With these three calendars, not counting the covers, you get 36 frame-worthy photos (24 in black & white and 12 color), each measuring 12" x 12". Each calendar is 28 total pages with 80-lb Gloss for each month and a 100-lb Gloss cover, saddle stitched with one hole drilled for hanging.
Making this C&OHS publication even more unique, each calendar comes with a special written dedication to two retired railroaders, complete with personal photos and tributes to their lives and careers working on the C&O. The six total honorees recognized in the Chesapeake & Ohio Through the New River Gorge trilogy are Dorothy Jean Boley, Marvin Plumley, Leonard L. Claytor, Eric Pack, Stewart Shannon, and Arthur Hoffman.
With this bundle, you receive:
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO THROUGH THE NEW RIVER GORGE 2022
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO THROUGH THE NEW RIVER GORGE 2023
and the all-color CHESAPEAKE & OHIO THROUGH THE NEW RIVER GORGE 2024: TWILIGHT IN THE WILDERNESS
With a timeline of photos that spans from the late 1800s to 1987, the three-calendar set features the most extensive collection of photos and historical captions about the New River Gorge that has been published by the C&O Historical Society in recent years. Covered extensively by newspapers in multiple states each year since its original release, the remaining quantities of Chesapeake & Ohio Through the New River Gorge is an incredible bundle of iconic C&O imagery and information in this region of West Virginia where the "machine in the garden" created a set of historical circumstances unmatched by any American railroad.
