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This
40’ standard box car with sliding door is painted brown with black
roof and ends. It was built by Pullman-
Standard in October 1940, lettered in white, and runs on black
Bettendorf trucks. This car is representive of series
3000-3899, running the rails of the Pocahontas District. The Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway (reporting marks C&O,
CO) was a Class I railroad formed in 1869. Led by industrialist
C. P. Huntington, it reached from Virginia’s capital
city of Richmond to the Ohio River by 1873, where the railroad
town (and later city) of Huntington, West Virginia
was named for him.
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