Tidewater transience

Tidewater transience

By Angela Cotey | March 20, 2020

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Two Geeps (center left) bring a train into Chesapeake & Ohio’s sprawling coal storage yard at Newport News, Va. Cars are stored here until needed at the nearby port facilities where they are mixed with various other grades of coal while loading into oceangoing vessels.
Chesapeake & Ohio, John B. Corns collection

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