The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in Thurmond, West Virginia
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1977 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1139509286 |
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Rating | : 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in Thurmond, West Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pamphlet includes three works about the history of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in the town of Thurmond, West Virginia and its environs. The first is an article by Dale Ernest that originally appeared in the C&O Historical Society's Newsletter in June 1988. The second consists of abstracts from the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) report of its survey of Thurmond in 1988. The last piece is by Roy Long, who tells of his experiences as an extra C&O telegraph operator w orking at Thurmond.Early in the 20th Century Thurmond was a coal boom town along the New River and had a short life as a major coal shipping terminal.