C&OHS 2024 Convention - Clifton Forge Heritage Center
1. COHS Convention 2024 brochure. Cover.
2. COHS Convention 2024 brochure. Schedule.
Note that a night photo set-up was arranged at the Heritage Center on Thursday and Friday evenings.
3. C&O GP7 5828 on 11-14-2024. C&O Ry Heritage Center.
4. C&O 5828 and Greenbrier 614. Its possible they met each other in their service lives at some engine terminal in the east. C&O Ry Heritage Center.
5. Those spots are rain drops! C&O Ry Heritage Center. AD Cabin.
6. C&O Ry Heritge Center. AD Cabin.
7. That’s not the moon! It’s a rain drop. C&O Ry Heritage Center. C&O 5828.
8. C&O Ry Heritage Center. C&O 5828.
9. Our gift shop is reminiscent of the old Smith Creek yard office structure that was located here. C&O Ry Heritage Center. Clifton Forge.
10. C&O Ry Heritage Center. Clifton Forge.
11. C&O Ry Heritage Center. C&O 7534.
12. C&O Ry Heritage Center. C&O 7534.
13. C&O Ry Heritage Center. Smith Creek Yard.
14. Saturday was a beautiful afternoon. 11-16-2024. C&O Ry Heritage Center. C&O 7534.
15. After an aborted plan to run premium excursion trains to the Greenbrier resort, no. 614 has resided at the Heritage Center. Plans are underway to move her to Strasburg PA, for restoration. C&O Ry Heritage Center 614.
16. Combine 458. C&O Ry Heritage Center.
17. Pullman sleeper “City of Petoskey.” C&O Ry Heritage Center.
18. Parked near the US 220 bridge is CSX cab 16462. This is ex-L&N 6462. It was built by International Car Co. in 10-1974. CSX cab 16462 Clifton Forge VA. COHS.
19. Both pieces of the 115-foot twin span electric turntable that came from the Clifton Forge round house. C&O Ry Heritage Center turntable.
20. VLIX (Vintage Locomotives Inc.) 4096 is ex-Amtrak, nee-UP E-9a. It came from a museum in New England, and was never NYC. Hopefully it will be repainted to C&O colors some day. C&O Ry Heritage Center.
21. Vintage signal of the type used at many depots on the C&O. C&O Ry Heritage Center.
22. C&O Ry Heritage Center. Train order signal.
23. COHS Heritage Center brochure. Cover.
24. COHS Heritage Center brochure. Content.
It was a great convention, by the way!
Train images used by permission of Everett N Young