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Map showing C&O lines with principal connections and annotations for points of interest, c. 1930s.
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![a steam passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130701-2-1.jpg)
Cincinnati–Washington/Newport News George Washington departing Cincinnati, 1940.
Robert A. Hadley
![a steam passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130701-2-1-100x80.jpg)
![an illustrated of a streamlined bullet shaped engine pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130701-3-1.jpg)
Artist’s rendering of proposed lightweight “Train X,” late 1940s.
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![an illustrated of a streamlined bullet shaped engine pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130701-3-1-100x80.jpg)
![the interior of a coach car](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130701-4-1.jpg)
Interior of “Imperial Salon” coach for Washington–Cincinnati George Washington, 1932.
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![the interior of a coach car](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130701-4-1-100x80.jpg)
![an aerial view of a train station and a large hotel in the background](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130701-5-1.jpg)
Aerial photo of C&O’s White Sulphur Springs passenger station and Hotel Greenbrier, c. 1950s.
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![an aerial view of a train station and a large hotel in the background](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130701-5-1-100x80.jpg)
![a large train yard with Detroit skyline in the background](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130701-6-1.jpg)
Detroit–Chicago Pere Marquette departing Detroit, 1950s.
Elmer Treloar
![a large train yard with Detroit skyline in the background](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130701-6-1-100x80.jpg)
![a painting of a steam train in the foreground with the United State's capitol building in the background](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130710-1-1.jpg)
Painting commissioned to promote launch of Washington–Cincinnati/Louisville George Washington, c. 1932.
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![a painting of a steam train in the foreground with the United State's capitol building in the background](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130710-1-1-100x80.jpg)
![a steam turbine locomotive pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130710-2-1.jpg)
Steam turbine locomotive for Washington–Cincinnati Chessie (never inaugurated), late 1940s.
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![a steam turbine locomotive pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130710-2-1-100x80.jpg)
![children playing with toys by a hostess](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130710-3-1.jpg)
Hostess and children’s play area on Washington–Cincinnati Chessie (never inaugurated), late 1940s.
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![children playing with toys by a hostess](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130710-3-1-100x80.jpg)
![a diesel passenger train crossing a tall bridgea bridge](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130710-4-1.jpg)
Grand Rapids–Petoskey, Mich., train 105 crossing Manistee River bridge north of Wellston, Mich., c. 1950.
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![a diesel passenger train crossing a tall bridgea bridge](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130710-4-1-100x80.jpg)
![steam engine passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130710-5-1.jpg)
Louisville section of Washington/Newport News–Louisville/Cincinnati George Washington at St. Matthews, Ky., June 1942.
Howard Blackburn
![steam engine passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130710-5-1-100x80.jpg)
![a couple getting onto a passenger car observation car](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130710-6-1.jpg)
Washington/Newport News–Louisville/Cincinnati George Washington, staged publicity photo at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., c. 1930s.
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![a couple getting onto a passenger car observation car](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130710-6-1-100x80.jpg)
![a couple of diesel passenger trains leaving a station](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130715-1-1.jpg)
Louisville–Newport News/Washington George Washington departs Louisville, 1960s.
Classic Trains coll.
![a couple of diesel passenger trains leaving a station](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130715-1-1-100x80.jpg)
![a streamlined steam locomotive pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130715-2-1.jpg)
Class L-1 4-6-4s 490 and 492 at Charlottesville, Va., c. 1950.
E. P. Dandridge Jr.
![a streamlined steam locomotive pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130715-2-1-100x80.jpg)
![a diesel passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130715-3-1.jpg)
Covington–Hot Springs, Va., mixed train with through Pullman from New York, June 1954.
Bob Lewis
![a diesel passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130715-3-1-100x80.jpg)
![a group of people inspecting a passenger car with circular windows](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130715-4-1.jpg)
Prototype car from Train X, testing in 1951 or 1952.
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![a group of people inspecting a passenger car with circular windows](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130715-4-1-100x80.jpg)
![a steam engine and a tender](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130715-5-1.jpg)
Class F-19 4-6-2 Pacific 490 with “The George Washington” sign on tender, c. 1933.
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![a steam engine and a tender](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130715-5-1-100x80.jpg)
![a steam passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130715-6-1.jpg)
Washington–Cincinnati/Louisville George Washington at Alexandria, Va., early 1940s.
Frank Clodfelter
![a steam passenger train](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130715-6-1-100x80.jpg)
![a group of women sitting at a circular table wearing headphones and plugging pegs into a switchboard](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130722-1-1.jpg)
New C&O central reservation office in Huntington, W.Va., 1947.
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![a group of women sitting at a circular table wearing headphones and plugging pegs into a switchboard](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130722-1-1-100x80.jpg)
![a diesel passenger train at night](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130722-2-1.jpg)
Washington/Newport News–Louisville/Cincinnati George Washington, publicity photo at Huntington, W.Va., 1954.
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![a diesel passenger train at night](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130722-2-1-100x80.jpg)
![a comic book cover showing george washington standing on a hill overloocking the ohio river and chesapeake bay](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130722-3-1.jpg)
C&O educational booklet
Cover of C&O comic-book-style educational publication for children, 1948.
![a comic book cover showing george washington standing on a hill overloocking the ohio river and chesapeake bay](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130722-3-1-100x80.jpg)
![the interior of a dining car](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130722-4-1.jpg)
Interior of Tavern-series “restaurant car,” c. 1932.
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![the interior of a dining car](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130722-4-1-100x80.jpg)
![a steam engine sitting next to a train station](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130722-5-1.jpg)
Louisville/Cincinnati–Newport News George Washington at Main Street Station, Richmond, Va., June 1949.
Paul Gibbs
![a steam engine sitting next to a train station](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130722-5-1-100x80.jpg)
![a large carferry sliding down long planks and splashing into watre](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gl130722-6-1.jpg)
Launch of Lake Michigan carferry Badger at Sturgeon Bay, Wis., on Sept. 6, 1952; sister Spartan in background.
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Their passenger equipment colors and the ‘Chesapeake and Ohio’ font style was the best livery in the east!