C&O Passenger Cars:
Passenger cars developed on the C&O much as they did on other railroads. The first cars were short wooden boxes on 4-wheel, 2-axle trucks. By the Civil War these cars had improved to have open end platforms and clerestory roofs for ventilation and light.
By the 1870s, when C&O opened its through line to the Ohio, cars were further developed with Pintsch gas lighting.
The all-wooden designs got longer and more highly decorated and the seating capacity increased largely. Pullman sleeping cars began operating on C&O trains in the early 1880s. The first C&O-operated dining cars appeared in 1889. Railway Post Office and express cars were common from the earliest period, usually the RPO portion being less than a full car until after 1900.
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