HUNTINGTON â In 1869, rail tycoon Collis P. Huntington, who played a successful â and highly profitable â role in construction of the long-dreamed-of Transcontinental Railroad, came to the rescue of the all-but-bankrupt Chesapeake & Ohio.
The little railroad desperately needed new capital to rebuild the damage it had suffered during the Civil War and push its tracks westward from Richmond, Virginia, to the Ohio River, where passengers and cargo could readily be transferred between the railroad and the riverboats that traveled the Ohio.
The C&Oâs board of directors turned for help to Huntington, who made them an offer they couldnât refuse. He said he would gladly supply the new funds needed â if he was made the railroadâs president. The board quickly agreed.
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Editorâs Note: This is the 373rd in a series of articles recalling vanished Huntington scenes.
HUNTINGTON â As a pilot flying corporate-owned airplanes in the 1970s, David R. Mueller sensed a business opportunity.
Mueller realized that the airlines were cutting back or eliminating their services to short-haul markets so he teamed up with his father, Raymond, and two other men to start their own airline to fill that gap.
Founded in 1977, Comair Inc. quickly grew from a family-owned business with three small planes to one of the largest and most profitable regional airlines in the country. By 1999, Comair was worth more than $2 billion and had a fleet of more than 100 aircraft that transported 6 million passengers yearly to more than 80 destinations.
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