Looking for photos of CO&SW locomotives and cars for a project on railroads that operated in Kentucky. Does anyone have any idea of where I might find some photos of this railroad’s equipment??
McCracken County Public Library - Don’t expect to find much there or thru the IC historical societies, Newberry or Barriger.
Sorry for the delay in responding - I checked with them and the Paducah Railroad Club – I was led to R&LHS publication “Railroad History 140 Illinois Central Locomotives” – this publication has a number of entries on CO&SW locomotives that went to IC. Also has a photo of CO&SW 37 as IC 1436 - thanks for the suggestion
Charles H. Bogart: Doing a little ‘Searchin’ ':
From theLibrary of Congress [via Google] linked @
https://cdn.loc.gov/service/rbc/rbpe/rbpe02/rbpe023/02301700/02301700.pdf
**"**An act to incorporate the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern railroad company [n.d.]"
This from Wikipedia, as well{ disclaimers!]: @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake,_Ohio_and_Southwestern_Railroad
And this linked Court Case[Tn,Supreme Ct. 1887]{from the post Civil War era, a stark contrast to current practices.] Linked @ https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/pdf/ibwells-0008-011-02.pdf
An ebay search turned up Ohio Valley Railroad #2, a 4-4-0, at Sturgis, Kentucky. OVRR in 1891 became part of CO&SW. Later OVRR 2 became IC 7715. Now have two photos of CO&SW locomotives.