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Chesapeake
& Ohio Facilities In Color
Volume
1: Midwest
By: Eugene
L. Huddleston
Morning
Sun Books, Inc., 2008
Hardcover, 128 pages, All Color
Stations, towers, roundhouses, maritime structures and lots of C&O trains are illustrated in full color and given detailed commentary by noted C&O expert E. L. Huddleston.
Contents Include:
THE MIDWEST...3
A SENSE OF PLACE...6
PRESERVING C&O's MIDWESTERN FACILITIES...8
C&O'S ADVANCE TO THE MIDWEST...12
C&O
DEPOTS IN MICHIGAN...20
Detroit to Chicago "Main Line"...20
Depots from Saginaw to Toledo...30
The Thumb...35
North Woods Country...42
Turkey Trail...50
Ohio Depots...55
Indiana Depots...66
C&O
RAILROAD BRIDGES IN THE MIDWEST...68
Michigan Main Line Bridges...68
Michigan Branch Line Bridges...77
Grand Ledge and the Ionia Branch...80
C&O's Ohio and Indiana Bridges...84
TRACK,
SIGNALS, GATES AND TILTING TARGETS...88
Track...88
Signals...90
Gates and Tilting Targets...94
COALING STATIONS, ROUND HOUSES, AND TURNTABLES...98
YARD STRUCTURES...104
TOWERS, CABINS AND PLANTS...115
C&O MARITIME FACILITIES IN THE MIDWEST...124