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Chesapeake & Ohio Business Car Data
This is a compendium of information about Chesapeake & Ohio’s business car fleet, compiled in the 1970s by a C&OHS member and donated to our archives. It contains information on each C&O business car including, builder, previous owners, and other historical data.
The interior accommodations in each car is described, as well as mechanical details. Dispositions as of the time of the writing are given.
This is strictly a data publication, without illustration.
Business Cars, often called Office Cars were built as “private cars” for the exclusive use of railway officials while traveling on official business. They were, in effect, a mobile office for the official, usually having accommodations for 3-5 other persons, as well as a steward and small kitchen. The cars wereusually assigned specific high ranking executives and parked in the city in which they worked. These
were passenger train cars and were moved in passenger trains, usually on the rear, so that the officialcould observe the track as the train passed over the road. Most had high-intensity lights that shown to the rear to illuminate the right-of-way at night. Their use declined when travel of officials by air became more available.
C&O typically kept a fleet of about a dozen business cars in commission during the 1920-1970 era. Today, CSX operates sizeable business car fleet, but the cars are generally used for special inspection trains, etc., in the present era.
77 pgs.
Chesapeake & Ohio Business Car Data
This is a compendium of information about Chesapeake & Ohio’s business car fleet, compiled in the 1970s by a C&OHS member and donated to our archives. It contains information on each C&O business car including, builder, previous owners, and other historical data.
The interior accommodations in each car is described, as well as mechanical details. Dispositions as of the time of the writing are given.
This is strictly a data publication, without illustration.
Business Cars, often called Office Cars were built as “private cars” for the exclusive use of railway officials while traveling on official business. They were, in effect, a mobile office for the official, usually having accommodations for 3-5 other persons, as well as a steward and small kitchen. The cars wereusually assigned specific high ranking executives and parked in the city in which they worked. These
were passenger train cars and were moved in passenger trains, usually on the rear, so that the officialcould observe the track as the train passed over the road. Most had high-intensity lights that shown to the rear to illuminate the right-of-way at night. Their use declined when travel of officials by air became more available.
C&O typically kept a fleet of about a dozen business cars in commission during the 1920-1970 era. Today, CSX operates sizeable business car fleet, but the cars are generally used for special inspection trains, etc., in the present era.
77 pgs.
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