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.
Road #: C&O 3203