C & O Power. Steam And Diesel Locomotives Of The Chesapeake And Ohio Railway 1900-1965

Éditeur C&O Power

Reliure Couverture rigide

Etat  Bon

Etat de la jaquette  Moyen

langue anglais

Dr. Eagene L.. Haddleston, January 28, 1931,

Gene spent his first twenty-four years in Russell, Kentacl where the house in which he lived was within sight and sound the main lines of two great railroads – the N&W and C&O. 11 interest in C&0 is close and personal: his father and are both C&0 employees, and he himself worked us a clerk for eight years in the Russell terminal. With his wife Mary Lou and son John Raymond, Dr. Huddleston now lives in Terre Haute Indiana, where he is an Assistant Professor of English at Indi ana State University. His most memorable experience as a rail-fan was his first sight of 2-6-6-6’s in service in the Alleyhenies In 1945, on the first of many trips made to observe and photograph C&0 operations, Gene stood in the open vestibule of the last coach of a westbound local, which had made an emergeney stop near White ‘Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, « As I stood there looking out on the gently curving track and green meadows and hillsides, an eastbound coal train with an H-8 on the point and another coupled ahead of the caboose approached up-grade. As soon as the deafening roar of double exhaust and the shower of cinders had subsided, I knew that I was permanently initiated as a railfan. »