The CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILROAD, controlled by entrepreneurs ORIS P. AND MANTIS J. VAN SWERINGEN at one time, was created by an act of the Virginia legislature on 18 Feb. 1826. The charter provided a ...

Mr. C.P. Huntington, the President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, was found in the office of that company, at No. 9 Nassau street, by a reporter of THE TIMES.

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 19.--The meeting of the stockholders of the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad Company for the purpose of acting on the proposed lease to the Newport News and ...

One evening in september 1883, a young schoolteacher named Ida B. Wells bought a first-class railroad ticket in Memphis, Tennessee, and boarded the eastbound Chesapeake, Ohio, and Southwestern ...

In 1884, the journalist Ida B. Wells filed a lawsuit against the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad after being forcibly removed from the ladies’ train car because she was black. Wells, who ...

That is how the article by Ruth Fuller in the Jan. 2, 1950, Lancaster Eagle-Gazette about the last passenger train out of Lancaster. The train was the Chesapeake and Ohio's No. 37.

The BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD, which owned several railroads serving the Cleveland area, was acquired by the CHESAPEAKE & OHIO in 1962, and the merged railroad, renamed the Chessie System, became part ...

In 1884, the journalist Ida B. Wells filed a lawsuit against the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad after being forcibly removed from the ladies’ train car because she was black. Wells, who ...