The Chesapeake and Ohio railway, by James Poyntz Nelson, special engineer, valuation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, James Poyntz, 1849-1929.

Contributor:

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.

Rupp Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Railroads--Virginia--History.

Railroads.

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.

James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.).

Physical Description:

3 p. |., 193 p. illus. (facsim.) maps (1 fold.) 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Richmond, Va., Lewis printing co., inc.] 1927.

Contents:

Origin of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

Difficulties in construction

Growth

The new river survey of 1869

Alleghany Region

The new river canyon

Coal development- West Virginia

Kentucky coal fields

The Richmond and Alleghany Railway Company

The Covington and Ohio Railroad Company

Contract with commissioners for completing he Covington and Ohio Railroad

Memorandum as to engineers ans other officers connected with the construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

Subsidiaries of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company

History of the subsidiaries of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company

The Blue Ridge Railroad

The Virginia Central Railroad Company

Memorandum

The Cincinnati Inter-Terminal Railroad Company

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company of Indiana

The James River and Kanawha Canal.

Notes:

Cover-title: The history of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company. Its antecedents and subsidiaries.

Testimony before Examiner Conway of the Interstate commerce commission at Washington, D.C., in Valuation dockets 457 and 477.

"The James River and Kanawha canal": p. 179-193.

Contains foldout map titled "Map showing the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Territory".

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Everett C. Drum, with my affectionate remebrances(?) James Poyntz Nelson" inscribed on t.p.

OCLC:

4365178