CHESAPEAKE & OHIO THROUGH PASSENGER SERVICE/Doughty CNS&M and traction from the 1930s

and traction from the 1930s to the 1950s from the 16mm films of Dr

Passenger train expert Geoff Doughty guides the reader stem-to-stern throughout the Northern Pacific’s streamliners

A strong Canadian storm system slammed into the Rockies sending the mercury below zero while a quintet of MRL's EMD SD70ACe's put on a fantastic show shoving heavy trains to the summit

You’ll see why in Cajon Pass

CHESAPEAKE & OHIO THROUGH PASSENGER SERVICE/Doughty CNS&M and traction from the 1930sIN STOCK AND SHIPPING After World War II concluded, the Chesapeake & Ohios charismatic chairman, Robert R. Young, embarked on an ambitious plan to overhaul its passenger service and invested heavily in new and sometimes exotic equipment. His plans didnt pan out as he envisioned and he departed in 1954, but C&O remained determined to offer service that would be considered the best. Follow the postwar development of this service and its decline through