At this time of crisis in our Nation's commuter railroads, a new threat to the continued operations of the New York Central has appeared in the form of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad's proposal for control of the Baltimore & Ohio railroads.

-- New York Central Railroad president Alfred E. Perlman said Tuesday his line would face the threat of bankruptcy if the Chesapeake & Ohio and Baltimore & Ohio Railroads merge.

Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., testified the B & O was in its worst financial condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

Examples include the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Canal latéral à la Loire, Garonne Lateral Canal, and Canal latéral à l ' Aisne.

Some of his proposals were adopted, specifically the extension of the Cumberland Road into Ohio with surveys for its continuation west to St. Louis ; the beginning of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the construction of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and the Louisville and Portland Canal around the falls of the Ohio ; the connection of the Great Lakes to the Ohio River system in Ohio and Indiana ; and the enlargement and rebuilding of the Dismal Swamp Canal in North Carolina.

Industrialist Collis P. Huntington ( 1821 – 1900 ) provided crucial funding to complete the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad ( C & O ) from Richmond, Virginia to the Ohio River in the early 1870s.

However, the city is connected to downtown Washington, D. C. ( some away ) by a continuous bike / running trail through the Alleghenies and along the Potomac Valley, known as the Great Allegheny Passage and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath.

A towpath on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.

* Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Trail

The U. S. reasons for war included the humiliation in the " Chesapeake incident " of 1807, continued British impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy, restrictions on trade with France, and arming hostile American Indians in Ohio and the western territories.

* Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park ( part )

And there was a croquet court, where a Gibson Girl might be seen playing against a gentleman with a wonderful mustache ... It was quite the thing to elope by the old Chesapeake and Ohio canal boat, be married at the Ferry by the tolltaker, who was a retired parson, and honeymoon at Hilltop House.

From there, she would travel northeast to Sandtown and Willow Grove, Delaware, and onto the Camden area where free black agents, William and Nat Brinkley and Abraham Gibbs, guided her north past Dover, Smyrna, and Blackbird, where other agents would take her across the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to New Castle and Wilmington.

The county is bisected from east to west by the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, which connects the Delaware River to the Chesapeake Bay by way of the Elk River.

The Chesapeake Bay forms a link in the Intracoastal Waterway, connecting the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal ( linking the bay to the Delaware River ) with the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal ( linking the bay, via the Elizabeth River, to the Albemarle Sound in North Carolina ).

It would again seen conflict during War of 1812 ; in 1814 British warships attacked Fort McHenry in Baltimore ; in a separate attack, British troops sailed up the Chesapeake, landed on the west side near Washington D. C., and trekked overland to burn the capital.

The campus is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn at the confluence of the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay, approximately east of Washington, D. C. and southeast of Baltimore, Maryland.

Additional archaeological materials from James Fort are featured in the Smithsonian Institution's limited exhibition, Written In Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake from February 7, 2009 to January 6, 2013 at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D. C.

On 2 May 1975, upon the 200th anniversary of the Corps, retired General Sverdrup, who had civil engineering projects including the landmark-long Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel to his credit, presented the Gold Castles to then-Chief of Engineers Lieutenant General William C. Gribble, Jr., who had also served under General MacArthur in the Pacific.

A local train of the Buckingham Branch railroad passes the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | C & O Depot and watertower in Louisa.

Also Clifton Forge serves a major locomotive fuel facility for CSX Transportation and is home to the Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society and C & O Railway Heritage Center.

" The city of Huntington was named for Collis P. Huntington, who built it as the western terminus for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( C & O ) on the land west of the mouth of the Guyandotte River at the Ohio River.

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal passes through the Georgetown, Washington, D. C. | Georgetown neighborhood.

The former Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad | C & O depot, restored and now used as the office for the adjacent bicycle trail

Rail transportation began to slowly replace the river's prominence as a mode of transportation as the Chesapeake & Ohio ( C & O ) railroad began construction of a bridge across the Big Sandy River linking Catlettsburg with Kenova, West Virginia in 1885.

The town was founded early in the 20th Century by affluent African Americans from Washington, D. C. and Baltimore, looking for a retreat on the Chesapeake Bay.

Map of old Chesapeake Beach Railroad from D. C. to Chesapeake Beach

Regular intercity passenger train service ended on September 1, 1962 after the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( C & O ) discontinued Traverse City, Michigan-Charlevoix-Petoskey, Michigan service.

In 1964, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( C & O ) and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( B & O ) jointly filed for permission to acquire control of the Western Maryland Railway with the Interstate Commerce Commission ( ICC ).

Possessing the second largest beach front in the state, Colonial Beach was a popular resort town in the early to mid-20th century, before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge made ocean beaches on the Eastern Shore of Maryland more accessible to visitors from Washington, D. C.

In 1889, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( C & O ) purchased the narrow gauge railroad and contracted with William Page to do the work to upgrade the line to standard gauge, which was completed on August 20, 1890.

* Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Thurmond Yards, East side New River, mouths of Arbuckle & Dunlop C, Thurmond, Fayette County, WV: 4 drawings, 30 photos, 78 data pages, 3 photo caption pages, 6 color transparencies, at Historic American Engineering Record

The portion of the Chesapeake and Ohio ( C & O ) Canal along the Maryland side of the Potomac River across from Shepherdstown was built during the 1830s.

In Virginia, Page ( and Rogers ) formed another intrastate railroad, the new Tidewater Railway, which was legally based in Staunton, a city located along the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( C & O ).

Regular intercity passenger train service ended on October 29, 1966, after the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( C & O ) discontinued Grand Rapids – Traverse City – Bay View service.

* " Sailing Down The Chesapeake Bay " George Botsford & Jean C. Harvez

Opened as Chesapeake Dry Dock & Construction Company, the shipbuilding was intended to build boats to transition goods from the rails to the seas.

The junction brought in trains on the Michigan Central, Erie, Grand Trunk, Elgin Joliet & Eastern ( EJ & E ) and The Chesapeake & Ohio, many going to and from Chicago.

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway built a passenger depot in Catlettsburg in 1906 and operated the facility for over 52 years until 1958 when passenger service was transferred to nearby Ashland.

The area also has a large railroad classification yard, built by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad and now operated by CSX.

Its major attractions include a Railway Museum & Trail, the Chesapeake Beach Water Park, marinas, piers, charter boat fishing, and a Veterans Memorial Park.

The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal passes through the town, and the Western Maryland Rail Trail connects Hancock with Fort Frederick State Park.

Bellaire remained a transportation center until 1962, when the East Jordan and Southern abandoned their trackage through Bellaire, and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway ( which was using the former Chicago and West Michigan line ) followed suit in 1982.