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By Wendell H. McChord
C&O inaugurated a new passenger train in 1930 that it called The Sportsman. This was because it emphasized the traffic to and from the holiday and recreational areas served: The Virginia seashore resorts, the mountain springs resorts of Virginia and West Virginia, and the vacation regions of western Michigan.
A huge advertising campaign emphasized the train and was the most extensive since the FFV of 1889. New features were not only the routing, using C&O’s new Northern Subdivision line between Kentucky and Detroit, but ultra-luxury coaches with 2-and-1 reclining bucket seats; new diners, and improved scheduling.
The new train actually overlaid the existing C&O passenger system, though it was later more integrated. Inaugurated just as the Depression began, C&O nonetheless lavished much attention and a great deal of money on The Sportsman.
The story is being told in two Volumes: Volume 2 to be issued as the 4th quarter C&O History Series book.
By Wendell H. McChord
C&O inaugurated a new passenger train in 1930 that it called The Sportsman. This was because it emphasized the traffic to and from the holiday and recreational areas served: The Virginia seashore resorts, the mountain springs resorts of Virginia and West Virginia, and the vacation regions of western Michigan.
A huge advertising campaign emphasized the train and was the most extensive since the FFV of 1889. New features were not only the routing, using C&O’s new Northern Subdivision line between Kentucky and Detroit, but ultra-luxury coaches with 2-and-1 reclining bucket seats; new diners, and improved scheduling.
The new train actually overlaid the existing C&O passenger system, though it was later more integrated. Inaugurated just as the Depression began, C&O nonetheless lavished much attention and a great deal of money on The Sportsman.
The story is being told in two Volumes: Volume 2 to be issued as the 4th quarter C&O History Series book.
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