C&O Railroad's Guyan Valley Local at C&O Station, Huntington

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Collection

0188: Ralph W. Brafford Collection

Institution

Marshall University Archives and Special Collections

Date

1952

Description

C&O Railroad's Guyan Valley Local, C&O Station, Huntington, W.Va., 1952, b&w Note on back reads: C&O Guyan Valley Local, Logan centennial Celebration, C&O station, Huntington, W.Va. photo by Charles Lemly. (The celebration was in 1952) This was C&O engine #377,a F-11 class,4-6-0 wheel arrangement steam engine, originally built in 1902. In 1952, the No. 377 retired from service and was intended for scrapping. Around the same time, however, the city of Logan, West Virginia issued a request to the C&O asking for the use of a vintage C&O train which might have resembled the one that arrived in 1904 with the completion of the Logan Branch. The C&O agreed to age the No. 377 by installing an oil headlight, flanged stack, cylinder head stars, wooden pilot and old style paint scheme. After the anniversary celebration, the C&O combined the No. 377 with the ex-Hocking Valley wooden combine, No. 409 for use as a display train.

Format

Photograph

Place

Huntington, WV

Subject

People: Lemly, Charles
Subject Terms: Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad C. & O. railroad station Huntington, W. Va. Railroad locomotives Railroads

Type

Still Image

Identifier

1977.06.0188.02.01.16

C&O Railroad's Guyan Valley Local at C&O Station, Huntington

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