Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller 19th century Virginia railroads, led by industrialist Collis Potter Huntington, who extended the line from Richmond to the Ohio River by 1873 (the city of Huntington, West Virginia is named for him). Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, the railway ran about 5,067 miles of track across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C., with its primary business the eastward and westward movement of West Virginia and Kentucky bituminous coal, alongside passenger trains such as the George Washington and the Sportsman. In 1972 it joined the Chessie System alongside the Baltimore and Ohio and Western Maryland railways, and in 1987 it merged into CSX Transportation.