Description

1st. Quarter (HS21):

Chesapeake & Ohio: 0-8-0 Steam Switching Locomotives By Thomas W. Dixon Jr.

This book, “Chesapeake & Ohio 0-8-0 Steam Switching Locomotives,” contains the history and photos of all the 0-8-0 wheel-arrangement steam locomotives that the C&O used as switching engines. They were purpose-built for moving long cuts of cars around terminal yards and for breaking up and assembling trains to dispatch over the railway.

2nd. Quarter (HS22):

Chesapeake & Ohio 2-8-2 Mikado Locomotives By Karen Parker

The complete story of the C&O’s 2-8-2 type. Detailed mechanical and operational data on these general-purpose locomotives.

3rd Quarter (HS23):

Chesapeake & Ohio at Alleghany, Virginia By C. Bryan Kidd

Complete story of C&O operations at the summit of vthe Alleghany grade by an author who has modeled it.

4th Quarter (HS24):

Pere Marquette Railway 2-8-4 Berkshire Locomotives By James Kehn

C&O subsidiary Pere Marquette Railway acquired 40 2-8-4s between 1937 and 18944. As it became part of C&O roster in 1947. Detailed operational and mechanical data.