C&O/B&O In Color Item  #1386

Item  #1386

standard to light-weight passenger equipment across the entire “Main Street of the Northwest

the late Bob Collins

Originally published in 1993

C&O/B&O In Color Item  #1386Bob Withers As the merger scene in the eastern United States heated up in the early 1960s with Erie Lackawanna, N&W NKP Wabash, and talk of Penn Central, a union of a different type occurred between the Chesapeake& Ohio and the Baltimore & Ohio. While not yet a true merger for several reasons, the affiliation was dubbed C&O B&O and quite visible trackside during the 1960s on timetables, advertisements, corporate reports, and especially trackside where