Locomotives of the Charleston Cincinnati & Chicago Railroad
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Charleston Cincinnati & Chicago 3Cs Locomotives
The Charleston Cincinnati & Chicago Railroad ordered ten 10-wheeler locomotives from the Burnham, Williams & Company, only two were built and delivered. Burnham, Williams & Company would eventually become part of Baldwin in 1909.
The two CC&C engines delivered were:
- #10 which was first named ‘Yancey,’ but later was changed to ‘McDowell’
- #11 was christened ‘Mitchell.’
However, the May 1, 1890 edition of the Johnson City Comet had a different record of the name and number of one of the engines:
“Yesterday morning at precisely 5 minutes past eleven o’clock, General Superintendent W.P. Harris shouted merrily ‘all aboard’ and the first passenger train on the 3Cs Railroad left Main Street crossing to make its first trip through Washington County. The train was composed of only one coach and one engine ‘Unicoi’ no. 32 that just arrived last week.”
The remaining 8 engines on the order were never built. However, their numbers and names had already been decided:
- Yancey
- Unicoi
- Carters
- Washington
- Sullivan
- Scott
- Russell
- Blacksburg
Schenectady Locomotives
Additionally, with the help of Philip Laws, we were able to find a picture of 3Cs engine #8, the Clarendon. It shows a delivery date of 1889. We are working to understand if the 3Cs made a different order to Schenectady Locomotive Works, potentially by the South Carolina operating unit of the 3Cs.
3Cs Locomotives Subsequent Owners
Subsequent owners of the locomotives included:
- Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia Railroad
- Norfolk & Western Railway
- Southern Iron & Equipment
- Morehead & North Fork Railroad
- Alger Sullivan Lumber Company
One of the engines was still operating in the Florida timber industry until it was scrapped in 1957
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More Rails Across the Appalachians information will be added to this page and website in the days ahead. Please let me know if you have any questions, see any edits that should be made, or have any content you are willing to share. Would enjoy hearing from you if you have similar interests in Appalachian Railroads, the 3Cs, the region, or model railroading.
For More Information – Sources and Resources
The following are wonderful resources for those interested in Appalachian Railroads. They also serve as sources of information for Appalachian-Railroads.org
- Association/Archives: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Historical Society
- Association/Archives: Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society
- Association/Archives: Louisville & Nashville Railroad Historical Society
- Association/Archives: Norfolk & Western Historical Society
- Association/Archives: Southern Railway Historical Association
- Archives of Appalachia: ETSU, Johnson City TN
- Book: Drury: The Historical Guide to North American Railroads
- Book: Flanary, Lindsey & Oroszi: The Southern Railway
- Book: Goforth: ‘Building the Clinchfield’ and ‘When Steam Ran the Clinchfield’
- Book: Graybeal: ‘The Railroads of Johnson City’
- Book: Irwin & Stahl: ‘The Last Empire Builder: The Life of George L. Carter’
- Book: King: ‘Clinchfield Country’
- Book: Marsh: ‘Clinchfield in Color’
- Book: Poole: ‘A History of Railroading in Western North Carolina’
- Book: Poteat & Taylor: ‘The CSX Clinchfield Route in the 21st Century’
- Book: Stevens & Peoples: ‘The Clinchfield No. 1 – Tennessee’s Legendary Steam Engine’
- Book: Way: ‘The Clinchfield Railroad, the Story of a Trade Route Across the Blue Ridge Mountains’
- Book: Wolfe: Southern Railway Appalachia Division
- Magazine: ‘Trains‘
- Magazine: ‘Classic Trains‘
- Website: Carolana.com – North Carolina Railroads, South Carolina Railroads
- Website: HawkinsRails.net
- Website: StateOfFranklin.net which hosts Johnson’s Depot
- Website: RailFanGuides.us for Johnson City and for Erwin
- Website: SteamLocomotive.com
- Website: WvncRails.org – North Carolina and West Virginia Railroads
- Video: Ken Marsh on Kingsport area railroads and region’s history Video #1
- Video: Ken Marsh on railroads and region’s history Video #2:
- Article: Flanary: ‘The Quick Service Route, The Clinchfield Railroad‘
- Articles: ‘Johnson City Comet‘
- Article: Scientific American: ‘The Costliest Railroad in America‘
- Personal Maps & Memorabilia: Documents, maps and track charts
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3Cs Websites
Appalachian-Railroads.org | Clinchfield.org | Southern-Railroads.org
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