Attention Railroad Hat Pin Collectors: The Collis P. Huntington is selling a limited edition hat-pins to raise funds to place a West Virginia historical marker at the recently cosmetically restored Chesapeake & Ohio 1308 engine. The H-6 class #1308 was built in 1949 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and retired in 1956 at Russell KY. She worked primarily in the Logan coalfields of West Virginia but did some time in Eastern Kentucky as well. She sat in the scrap line until 1962 when she was moved to the end of Ritter Park in Huntington, West Virginia and given to the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society. She is the Queen of the CPH Museum and is the next to the last steam engine built for a Class 1 railroad in this country. Her sister 1309 resides in the B&O Museum in Baltimore.

#1308 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Ordering Information:

Send your payment (check) for $6.00+ $1.00 shipping and handling to:

C. P. Huntington Railway Historical Society
c/o Don Mills---
807 5th St. E.
Huntington, WV 25701

e-mail: dmills@marshall.edu