C&O Freight Cars:
The post-Civil War Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company started as a general freight hauling enterprise and grew into a bulk coal-hauling business. The last references to building four- wheel open-top cars for the purpose of bulk hauling of coal and other mine products appeared in 1870-1871. The C&O also purchased 100 eight-wheel "coal cars" that year. With the completion of "the road" to Huntington, West Virginia, and their independence from C.P. Huntington's Newport News and Mississippi Valley holding corporation, the records of the C&O's Mechanical Department's freight car purchases records became more numerous and are more available for historical scrutiny. Purchase records, freight car diagrams, lettering drawings, and general arrangement drawings before the late-1 929 Van Sweringen holding company Advisory Mechanical Committee (AMC) era are incomplete. The AMC jointly supervised the C&O, PM, NKP, and Erie railroad's mechanical departments from a central office in Cleveland, Ohio, and Cleveland remained the C&O's main offices until the Chessie System was formed.
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