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waters surround the station and extend on to the neighboring warehouses. A train can be
seen slowly approaching in the distance, a thick cloud of white smoke pouring from the lo-
comotive. Note the sign at far left for Winn Brothers and Company Stables. (Courtesy the
C&O Historical Society.)
A Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) locomotive inches its careful way along the flooded
track in downtown Huntington during the 1933 flood. In the 1930s, Huntington was served
by both the C&O and the B&O, and the two railroads each maintained freight stations near
the river's edge, convenient to the city's busy warehouse district and wholesale produce
market. Today both the C&O and B&O are part of rail giant CSX. (Courtesy the C&O His-
torical Society.)
