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Chief Logan State Park
Chief Logan State Park is located on about north of Logan, West Virginia, Logan in Logan County, West Virginia, United States. The park, the town and the county were all named after Chief Logan, a Mingo (or Ohio Iroquois) Native Americans in the United States, Native American leader who lived in the region before the American Revolutionary War. Each summer the Liz Spurlock Amphitheater at Chief Logan State Park is the site for outdoor dramas, including the historical drama "The Aracoma Story" about Shawnee nation, Shawnee tribal members who lived at the present-day location of the town of Logan. The outdoor drama theater produces the Aracoma story and two to three other plays or musicals every year. The new Chief Logan Lodge and Conference Center opened at the park during the summer of 2006. There is also a fishing pond on site and a recreation center that has weights, exercise machines, courts and an Olympic sized indoor pool. Museum in the Park The Museum in the Park feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C&O 2755
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 2755 is a standard gauge steam railway locomotive of the 2-8-4 type, called "Berkshire locomotive, Berkshire" by most US railroads, but "Berkshire locomotive, Kanawha" by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O). It is one of a total of ninety built by American Locomotive Company, ALCO (which built seventy) and Lima Locomotive Works, Lima (which built the remaining twenty, including 2755) between 1943 and 1947. A Berkshire type was the first of the Lima Locomotive Works#Super Power, Lima Super Power locomotives in 1925 and these followed in that tradition, with all the latest equipment -- Wilhelm Schmidt (engineer), Schmidt superheater, Elesco feedwater heater, booster engine, booster on the trailing truck, roller bearings, and so forth. They carried Baker valve gear, which the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, C&O preferred to the simpler and much more widely used Walschaerts valve gear. It spent its nine-year working life hauling coal on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |