{"product_id":"9780939487615","title":"Chesapeake \u0026 Ohio Passenger Service 1847-1971","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book by T. W. Dixon, Jr., details the whole history of passenger train service on the C\u0026amp;O. Beginning with the Virginia Central in the 1840s and ending with Amtrak's takeover in 1971, much of the information has never before been published. Especially during the 1920-1971 period, the era of the heavyweight steel passenger equipment and the lightweight streamlined cars, the heaviest and most powerful steam locomotives, and the iconic E8 diesels - a wealth of detail. Mail, express, dining car, sleeping car, and ancillary service are covered, as well as motive power, cars, schedules, consists, methods of operation, stations, staff\/personnel, advertising, and all the elements that went to make the C\u0026amp;O's passenger trains not only highly efficient, greatly successful, widely known, and well respected. Though passengers accounted for only 5% of C\u0026amp;O's revenue in the mid-20th century era, the company lavished a great deal of attention on it. The feeling was that, to truly be a first class railway, C\u0026amp;O had to have the very best passenger service. Innovations starting in the 1880s and leading up into the 1950s, put C\u0026amp;O at the forefront of passenger service development from an operational and technological viewpoint. In the final decades C\u0026amp;O absorbed the passenger losses in the belief that the passenger train was the best advertising that it could have.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"C \u0026 O Historical Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013136171248,"sku":"9780939487615","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780939487615_p0.jpg?v=1763878593","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780939487615","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}