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The September 1999 C&O Historical Magazine article on "Early Livestock Cars" conclude...
For the first time in 20 years, daily passenger train service returned to the greater...
CSXT's minerals group recently secured a unit train deal representing 4,000 new aggre...
Please send items to Jerry Doyle, 6209 Beverly Court, Huntington, WV 25705. Thanks g...
These interesting cars were built in 1935 to experiment with new car-building designs...
Mergers and acquisitions of Class 1 railroads continue to dominate the news in the ra...
CSX has announced the name if its container-shipping company: CSX Lines, LLC. The dom...
The C&O Historical Society has been initiating special runs of models and has begun t...
CSX REGION HQ BRINGING JOBS TO HUNTINGTON from the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, Oct. ...
RULING RESTRAINS MOUNTAINTOP MINING the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Oct. 24, 1999 subm...
DEATH OF EASTERN COAL INDusTRY FEARED the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Oct. 24, 1999 su...
This year, the C&O Historical Society was given its single largest contribution of ar...
RAILFANs HELP AVERT POSSIBLE DERAILMENT From the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, Sept. 3...
It is with a great deal of sadness that I tell you of the death of Mr. Stewart H. Bos...
TOWNS TRAPPED BY TRAINS From the Columbus Dispatch, October 17, 1999 Submitted by E...
AAPRCO CONVENTION TRAIN Information from Jerry Doyle, Don Mills, and Ray Poteat In ...
This month's column is dedicated to those whom missed buying a complete Front Range G...
The reprinting of Elmer G. Sulzer's Ghost Railroads of Kentucky in 1998 by the Indian...
Most people have a hobby or a pastime that gives them pleasure, but not too many peop...
This month's column, the second part of the "EMD Geep Diesel Locomotive Series," show...
There has always been need for small shelters for railroad personnel stationed at var...
When the Hocking Valley Railway (HV) received its C-12 class 2-8-0s from American Loc...
The Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 24, 1999 submitted by Ray Saunders The city of R...
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, July 11, 1999 submitted by Tom Seay A Radnor, Pa., en...
The article on the 1923 design for the simplified wooden Signal Tower, which appeared...
The Washington Post, July 23, 1999 submitted by Ray Saunders CSX Corp. announced Jul...
Motive Power News is back after a long hiatus! Remember, a column can only be as good...
A friend recently gave me an old poster advertising a western railroad. It says, "Fal...
In the Archives' collection is C&O Standard drawing No. S-264, which is reproduced on...
BIG SANDY CREW ASSIGNMENTS The following are crew assignments for train crews based ...
For a quarter of a century, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway promoted itself using the "...
It had already been a great week of "railfun" prior to my arrival at the C&OHS Confer...
Representative of the research materials available in the C&OHS Archives is a reduced...
As I write, memories of August's C&O Historical Society Conference in Cincinnati come...
HUNTINGTON STATUE TO RETURN TO STATION The Huntington Herald-Dispatch, June 18, 1999...
A two-year caboose preservation project by volunteers of the Kokosing Gap Trail will ...
CSX PROMOTES CONWAY The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 1999 submitted by Ray Saunde...
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, July 25, 1999 submitted by Tom Seay This is the time ...
Material about Stevens Yard in the June 1999 Magazine included two photos that showed...
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company has never been known as a major livestock movin...
Membership dues are being raised, effective November 1, to $30.00 per year. This $5.0...
CSX DONATES CLIFTON FORGE SHOP PROPERTY The Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 23, 1999 su...
While this article is aimed primarily at detailing the Atlas twin hoppers that the C&...
Cabin was located at the junction of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway main line with the...
Please Send Items to Everett N. Young 59 Vera Drive, Pikeville, KY 41501-1923 The Wa...
If you have not completed and sent in the Member Questionnaire from the May issue of ...
The Kentucky Post September 23, 1998 submitted by Charles Bogart Campbell County h...
TRAINS Magazine May 1999 TRAINS "Preservation Points" column noted that Amtrak has ...
In the June 1999 issue of the C&O Historical Magazine, we looked at some of the Chesa...
Repairs have been completed on CSXT's railroad swing bridge over the St. Joseph River...
TRAINS GET TICKETED Detroit Free Press September 3, 1998 submitted by H. J. Hales ...
Two mine locomotives of Massey subsidiaries have moved from CSXT's Coal River Distric...
Editor's Note: Since we will meet in Cincinnati for the C&OHS Annual Conference, this...
I have often wondered, as a non-modeler, what value there is in being super accurate....
I begin as Coordinating Editor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Magazine simply ...
COAL TOWN BOOK AVAILABLE Bluefield Daily Telegraph October 25, 1998 submitted by T...
RICHMOND STATION STALEMATE Richmond Times-Dispatch April 23, 1999 submitted by Ray...
Editor's Note: This article is reprinted from the May 1955 issue of the C&O's Employe...
On the opposite page you will find an introduction by our new Coordinating Editor, Sa...
CSXT has completed replacing part of the through truss bridge across the Levisa Fork ...
Two new freights operate daily between Cincinnati and Russell. Q631 leaves Russell at...
Those who attended the C&OHS George Washington Chapter's modeling weekend at West Vir...
The new General Electric AC6000ACs (CSXT class CW60AC) continue to enter service. As ...
For the first time in almost ten years we are doing a membership survey, which you wi...
First please note that I now have an e-mail address. This month we're going to add so...
Between 1933 and 1952, the C&O and its erstwhile corporate relative, the Nickel Plat...
A Routine Night at the Ashland Passenger Station Ashland, Kentucky, was the busiest ...
CONRAIL ENGINES ALLOCATED TO CSXT The December 1998 issue of Railpace magazine liste...
This is the first issue of Observations since 1996. The purpose of this little public...
Decatur Axtell, described as being "prominent in the social life of Virginia," starte...
The C&O. wasn't generally a railway that went in for one-- of-a-kind locomotives, so ...
Mark Your Calendar ... 1999 C&OHS Annual Conference Cincinnati August 11-14 We are b...
Almost 60 years after the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway station at Fort Monroe, Virginia,...
NEW LOCOMOTIVES FOR CSXT Forty nine new General Electric CW60AC (CSXT's designation)...
The Pere Marquette (PM) received 750 Flat Bottom Gondola cars from the Ralston Steel ...
The Spring catalog enclosed with this issue is an experiment to generate additional s...
Give this easy kitbashing project a try Photos of C&O coal trains of the 1940s usual...
CSX Transportation has filed with the Surface Transportation Board to abandon three l...
When CN's new Sarnia-Port Huron tunnel was completed in 1994, CSXT arranged for right...
The release a couple of years ago of the Life-Like Proto-2000 HO model of the GP9 and...
Although we think primarily of water tanks when we think of railroad water service, t...
Edited by Russ Hass RD2, Box 140, Kane, PA,16735 Home 814-837-4384 Work 814-965-645...
The area of the Chesapeake & Ohio that I am most interested in is the New River Gorge...
The accompanying four photos were taken by C&O's engineering department in 1954. We d...
We announce in a flyer this month that the re-issue of the Atlas HO scale hopper cars...
It has been quite some time since the Magazine has been able to devote space to a "Le...
The C&OHS has lost another long-time member and contributor of talents, memories, and...
Within the range of C&O steam passenger locomotives, the impression one gets of the F...
BIG SANDY HAPPENINGS CSXT has replaced their call-asneeded "mine runs" with jobs ter...
C&OHS Progress Although we will not have a good idea of how our 1998 finances ran un...
As most of you are aware, the Society has acquired an extensive collection of C&O mec...
The Basement Subdivision Picking up where we left off in the December Magazine, add ...
To the Editor: We read with interest the recently published review by Lois and Nopp...
Note to Our Readers-- You may have noticed that recent journals have been exception...
Stewardship: the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's c...
Study objectives: To determine whether the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of ...
PROLOGUE This editorial is intended to state the position of CHEST and its publishe...
Members of the dais party and women and men of the audience: I would like to speak wi...
Study objectives: To confirm that more women than men who complain of chronic cough s...
A 40-year-old woman is recovering from a tricyclic antidepressant overdose and is abo...
(4) Lubenow, Eiehler P, Lietz T, et al. Lepirudin in patients with heparin-induced th...
Michael H. Baumann, MD, MS, FCCP Jackson, MS REFERENCES (1) Silvestri GA, Strange...
Study purpose: Train-of-four (TOF) monitoring is often recommended during the continu...
Background: Pleurodesis is important in the management of malignant pleural effusions...
Key words: chest tube; guideline; pleura; pneumothorax; thoracoscopy Abbreviations:...
Purpose: Flow rates and pressures generated by commercially available pleural drainag...
Increasingly, evidence-based publications have put the practice of pulmonary medicine...
COPD likely remains the most common cause of secondary spontaneous pneumothoraces.[1]...
An American College of Chest Physicians Delphi Consensus Statement Objective: Provi...
Key words: chest tube; median sternotomy; pleurodesis; spontaneous pneumothorax; thor...
(7) Antonelli M, Conti G, Roceo M, et al. A comparison of noninvasive positive-pressu...
(7) Campos-Rodriguez F, Grilo-Reina A, Perez-Ronchel J, et al. Effect of continuous p...
All patients were hospitalized, often in acute care settings. Some patients initially...
RESULTS Analysis Population This analysis evaluated the thrombotic-associated out...
Irrespective of the HIT presentation, with or without HIT-associated thrombosis, arga...
Death: The risk of death due to thrombosis was not significantly affected by patient ...
HIT is a serious complication of heparin therapy that often leads to limb- and life-t...
The time-to-event curves between the argatroban and control groups for the thrombotic...
(10) Warkentin TE. Platelet count monitoring and laboratory testing for heparin-induc...
Correspondence to: Bruce E. Lewis, MD, Loyola University Medical Center, 2160 South F...
Study objective: To determine the angiographic patency of cryopreserved saphenous vei...
Apoptosis and the removal of apoptotic cells (termed efferocytosis) are tightly coupl...
To the Editor: We read with interest the recent study in CHEST (September 2005) (1)...
Objective: To determine if a d-dimer assay (Simplify D-dimer; Agen Biomedical; Brisba...
Background: [[alpha].sub.1]-Antitrypsin (AAT)-Z deficiency is a risk factor for the d...
To the Editor: In a recent article in CHEST (October 2005), (1) Dales et al reporte...
Study objectives: To evaluate a teaching protocol comparing a critical care attending...
COPD is projected to be the third-leading cause of death by the year 2020. Pharmacoth...
To the Editor: In a recent article in CHEST (December 2005), (1) Matsuyama et al fo...
Study objectives: Low body weight in COPD patients is associated with worsening dyspn...
Pleural effusions are an extremely common problem affecting approximately 1.5 million...
Thrombosis in Clinical Practice By Andrew D. Blann, MD; Gregory Y. H. Lip, MD; and Al...
Study objectives: Respiratory complications are frequent after lung transplantation (...
The differential diagnosis of pulmonary infiltrates after solid-organ transplantation...
An association between polymyositis and lung cancer has been debated. Published data ...
A 48-year-old woman presented to the emergency department complaining of fever, sever...
Key words: English; language harrier; medical writing; writing Abbreviations: EIL =...
Study objectives: Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disorder primarily affecting the lun...
Rationale: Lung compliance has been found to be low in patients with chronic diaphrag...
Objective: To investigate the frequency of pulmonary hypertension (PH) and clinical p...
Objective: To examine the pleural fluid (PF) and serum levels of angiopoietin (Ang)-1...
Study objectives: The American College of Chest Physicians Delphi Consensus Statement...
Study objectives: Pneumothorax is a common complication of lymphangioleiomyomatosis (...
Study objective: To establish the prevalence of pulmonary embolism (PE) in autopsy ma...
Study objectives: The aim of this study was to characterize the elemental composition...
Study objectives: Acquired tracheal and subglottic stenosis frequently leads to sever...
Purpose: COPD is a well-known independent risk factor that is associated with primary...
Study objectives: Baseline prognostic assessment in patients with pulmonary hypertens...
While outcome research in lung cancer has focused mainly on short-term survival and q...
Key words: format; medical journals; uniform requirements; writing Abbreviations: I...
To the Editor: We congratulate the American College of Chest Physicians for produci...
Congratulations to the investigators of the Spirometry in Asthma and COPD: a Comparat...
To the Editor: In their report on cardiac sarcoidosis, Smedema et al (July 2005) (1...
Study objectives: Cigarette smoking has been associated with impaired endothelium-dep...
To the Editor: I thank Traynor et al (May 2005) (1) for providing data showing the ...
Study objectives: To evaluate medical utilization by ambulatory patients with vocal c...
To the Editor: I read with interest Soffer's editorial in CHEST (August 2005) (1) o...
Study objectives: Habitual snoring may be regarded as an indicator of sleep-disordere...
To the Editor: Bronchiolitis is the most common lower respiratory tract infection i...
Study objectives: To determine the impact of early enteral feeding on the outcome of ...
To the Editor: Since 2002, a new service has been available to physicians in southe...
Study objective: Docetaxel has shown activity in the second-line treatment of non-sma...
In this third and last part in our series on applied medical informatics (AMI), we wi...
To the Editor: We applaud Carden and colleagues for their excellent review of trach...
To the Editor: We read with interest the article by Sharma et al (September 2005).(...
Study objectives: To report the efficacy and findings of a large-scale preventive scr...
Background: Chronic bronchitis is a disease of the bronchi that is manifested by coug...
Objectives: This section of the guideline aims to review the role of occupational and...
Study objectives: There are no studies focused on skeletal status in patients with di...
Background: Patients who complain of a persistent cough lasting > 3 weeks after ex...
Pulmonary rehabilitation services benefit patients with chronic lung disease by reduc...
Since the introduction of systematically developed clinical practice guidelines >2...
Background: Recovery of Candida from the respiratory tract of a critically ill patien...
Goals/objectives: To review the scientific evidence on cough associated with tumors i...
Study objectives: Much attention has been paid in recent years to optimizing the diag...
Objectives: In the present study, we evaluated the effect of nasal surgery on snoring...
Objective: In vitro data suggest that the S-enantiomer of albuterol can induce mucoci...
Objectives: To review the role of chronic interstitial pulmonary disease in the spect...
A 24-year-old woman presented with a 3-week history of exertional dyspnea and dry cou...
Objective: The incidence of tracheoarterial fistula (TAF) in patients with short-term...
Objectives: To characterize how patients with empyemas are managed initially at our f...
Study objectives: Elevated levels of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) have been associated w...
Study objective: To describe the clinical characteristics and outcome of patients wit...
Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery By Daniel J. Goldstein and Mehmet C. Oz, eds. Toto...
The morbidity and mortality associated with respiratory failure is, to a certain exte...
Study objective: To analyze the cough response to three airway challenges in order to...
Objective: Postoperative pulmonary hypertension (POPH) substantially increases mortal...
A 68-year-old white man was evaluated for failure to wean from mechanical ventilation...
Colleagues in Discovery: One Hundred Years of Improving Respiratory Health By Joseph ...
Anemia occurs in virtually all critically ill patients receiving long-term mechanical...
Study objective: Eosinophilic infiltration of airway tissue is a central feature of a...
Study objectives: Minimal-access thymectomy has become increasingly popular as surgic...
Background: Hairdressers are at risk for occupational respiratory diseases, but the r...
Purpose: We investigated whether oral tetracyclines could produce an efficient and sa...
In the September 2005 issue, the article by Fregonezi et al, "Effects of 8-Week,...