Sources & Credits — The Lexington Subdivision

This site presents a private research collection on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's Lexington Subdivision. The narrative history is compiled overwhelmingly from the publications and archives of the Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society (cohs.org), whose decades of research, preservation, and scanning made every page of it possible. Photographs and documents remain the property of their respective owners and are gathered here for personal research and reference.

Nearly every statement in the History carries its source in parentheses — the citations below expand those tags.

Principal Sources

McChord, Wendell H. “On the Road to Louisville: The story of the C&O's Lexington Subdivision.” C&O Historical Society Newsletter, November 1976.
Dixon, Thomas W., Jr. “Pullmans to the Bluegrass: A History of C&O Passenger Train Operations between Ashland and Louisville.” C&O Historical Society Newsletter, November 1976.
Huddleston, Eugene L. “Collis P. Huntington in Perspective.” Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Magazine, May 1994.
Huddleston, Eugene L. “Lexington Subdivision Steam Passenger Power.” Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Magazine, June 1998.
Huddleston, Eugene L. “South and West from Ashland: The Region that Put the ‘I' into AC&I.” C&O Historical Society Newsletter, September 1976.
Bogart, Charles W. “Captain Otho McFarland — A C&O Conductor.” C&O Historical Society Newsletter.
Bogart, Charles H., ed. “Max M. Harnett, C&O Conductor.” C&O Historical Society Newsletter, April 2005.
“Flash Flood at Aden.” C&O Historical Society Newsletter.
Stuart, Jesse. “Blue Grass and Green Hills.” TRACKS, August 1955; condensed in the COHS Newsletter.
Brown. “Lexington's Final Chapter.” C&O Historical Society Newsletter, November 1988.
“Mount Sterling Depot.” C&O Historical Society Newsletter, May 2002 and 2008.
“Farmer Depot.” C&O Historical Society printed articles collection.
Boy, D. C. “Products of Kentucky's Famous Olive Hill District Move Via C.&O. and P.M.” Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Magazine, February 1932.
Salyers, Neal. Carter County Brick Yards & Clay Mines. Mountain Press, 2012.

Newspapers & Later Accounts

“A railroad trip through Carter County.” The Ashland Independent, 1881.
“Chessie Seeks to Abandon Lexington Sub.” Lexington Herald-Leader, September 11, 1984.
“Little Hope for Lexington Line.” Olive Hill (Ky.) Times, March 26, 1985.
“Chessie Bids Bye-Bye to the Bluegrass.” C&O Historical Society Newsletter, 1985.
“Remnant of Lexington Sub Sold.” Huntington Herald-Dispatch, June 19, 1986.
“Inaction Halts Lexington-Big Sandy Rail Trail.” Lexington Herald-Leader, July 25, 2003.
“WHERE IN THE WORLD? Gone But Not Forgotten: Union Depot.” Winchester Sun, January 7, 2022.
Cahal, Sherman. “Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Lexington Subdivision.” Abandoned (abandonedonline.net).
Bruggers, James. “Trash trains bring stench, misery to Ky. county.” The Courier-Journal, 2015.
Malloy, David E. “Ashland's Big Run Landfill shuts down rail operation.” The Herald-Dispatch, April 21, 2016.
Additional accounts from WSAZ (2015), Waste Dive (2016), Richland County (Ohio) history publications, Rowan County historical resources, Wikipedia (“Morehead and North Fork Railroad”), and company histories of Kentucky Electric Steel.

Original Documents

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Ashland Division employee timetables: No. 133 (May 6, 1945), No. 134 (September 28, 1947), 1958 issue, and No. 153 (April 24, 1966). C&O Historical Society Archives.
C&O Lexington Subdivision track charts, 1924–1984; ICC valuation maps (V-33 series); side track records; Chief Engineering Department, Maintenance of Way, Branch Line, and “X” drawings. C&O Historical Society Archives.
C&O “List of Officers, Agents, Stations, Etc.,” 1892–1957 (all-time station list).

About This Site

The site is a self-contained set of web pages living inside the collection folder. The photo gallery and archive browser read the full-resolution scans directly from the Sorted COHS Images by Location and COHS Archive for Lex Sub folders, so the Website folder should stay alongside those folders for every image to display. No internet connection is required except for the external video link in the Library.

Photographs are credited to their photographers in the original COHS captions wherever the photographer is known; scan and accession credits appear beneath each image in the viewer. Special acknowledgement is due to the photographers whose work fills the gallery — among them Eugene L. Huddleston, T. W. Dixon, Jr., J. D. Allen, and many others — and to the Society members who scanned and catalogued the collection.