ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Without the railroaders and rail fans who recorded the images you are about to enjoy, this book would not have been possible. Train crews, officers, and clerks took pride in each other and their work, recording their efforts so future generations would learn what a steam engine looked like and how travel was conducted in the good old days. Railroad enthusiasts and members of the general public took the cue and did the same thing, benefiting those who were born too late to experience that world in person.

Specifically, railroaders whose photographic work and memories are included herein include H. D. Bee, Cliff Bellamy, F. Douglas Bess, Ralph W Brafford, Dave Corbitt, Larry K. Fellure Sr., Gary E. Huddleston, Charles B. Hughes, Joseph R. Krupinski, Charles Lemley, Lloyd D. Lewis, Robert G. Lewis, V. Wayne Mason, Charles and Esther Morrow, O. V. Nelson, Charles S. Ruddell, Harold Wetherall, and Don Whitlatch.

Others individuals and agencies whose archives, talents, and assistance have been tapped include Howard Ameling; Winnie Arthur; Charles W Aurand; Luther Baker; the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Historical Society, Inc.; the B&O Railroad Museum, Inc., Hays T. Watkins Research Library; Garland T. Brown; Lawrence V. Cartmill; Classic Trains magazine; Richard J. Cook; C. R. Davidson; Stephen P. Davidson; Helen Diddle; Thomas W Dixon Jr.; the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library; Steve Exum; Bruce Fales; Steve Ferrell; Dan Finfrock; Minnie Finley; Don Flesher; Bob Freitag; Paul Fulks; W J. B. Gwinn; Leo Harmon; Herbert H. Harwood Jr.; Philip R. Hastings; Ken Hechler; the Herald-Advertiser; the Herald-Dispatch; Eloise Hines; Nancy Hirzel; the Huntington Advertiser; the Interstate Commerce Commission; Gordon C. Jackson; John P. Killoran; John King; Fred Lambert; Mid-America Paper Collectibles; Charlotte Dugan Moore; O. S. Nock; Gladys Paden; the Parkersburg News; the Richwood News Leader; Capt. Russell Stone; Nancy Taylor; TLC Publishing, Inc.; Harold K. Vollrath; William E. Warden Jr.; Jan Weiford; Scott West; Jay Williams; and J. J. Young Jr.

The 21st-century public owes them, and many others like them, a debt of gratitude for their efforts to keep railroad history alive.

This page from the B&O Railroad’s April 25, 1948, timetable shows the eastbound trains running on the Ohio River line between Kenova and Wheeling. Trains 72 and 78 made connections to Pittsburgh, and Train 78 carried a Hinton-to-Pittsburgh sleeper via the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to Huntington. The schedule also included mixed Train 82 between Kenova and Parkersburg. (Bob Withers collection.)