Sportsman (train)

Sportsman

Sportsman one-time logo in 1948 C&O timetable
Overview
Service type	Inter-city rail
Status	Discontinued
Locale	Mid-West, Mid-Atlantic States
First service	1930
Last service	1968
Former operator(s)	Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Route
Termini	Washington, D.C., and Phoebus, Virginia, latter shortened in final decade to Newport News Detroit, Michigan, Louisville, Kentucky and Cincinnati
Service frequency	Daily
Train number(s)	Detroit-Phoebus: 46 (eastbound), 47 (westbound) Cincinnati-Washington, D.C.: 4 (eastbound), 5 (westbound)
On-board services
Seating arrangements	"Imperial Salon Cars" for coach passengers: with reclining seats [1950]
Sleeping arrangements	Sections, double bedrooms, compartments, drawing rooms
Catering facilities	Dining cars
Route map v t e Legend Washington, D.C. Long Bridge over the Potomac River DC VA Alexandria Orange Phoebus closed 1953 Newport News Lee Hall Williamsburg Richmond Gordonsville Charlottesville Waynesboro Staunton Clifton Forge Covington VA WV White Sulphur Springs Ronceverte Alderson Hinton Meadow Creek Prince Thurmond Cotton Hill Montgomery Cabin Creek Charleston St. Albans closed 1963 Huntington WV KY Ashland closed 1956 Lexington Louisville KY OH Columbus Delaware Marion Upper Sandusky Carey Fostoria Toledo OH MI Monroe Plymouth Detroit Russell South Portsmouth Vanceburg Maysville Augusta Newport C&O Railroad Bridge over the Ohio River KY OH Cincinnati

The Sportsman was a named passenger night train of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. It was the Chesapeake and Ohio's long-standing train bound for Detroit from Washington, D.C., and Phoebus, Virginia, on the Chesapeake Bay, opposite Norfolk, Virginia. It was unique among C&O trains for its route north from the C&O mainline in southern Ohio. For most of its years it had a secondary western terminus in Louisville at its Central Station.