Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society Museum

The Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society was founded in 1959 in Huntington, West Virginia, taking the name of the Central Pacific 'Big Four' magnate who later spent at least a decade as a leading figure of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway — the railroad that founded the city in 1871 as its western terminus and named it for him. The society became custodian of one of the C&O's signature survivors: No. 1308, an articulated 2-6-6-2 Mallet outshopped by Baldwin in 1949 as the next-to-last Class 1 mainline locomotive Baldwin ever built. After its final run on February 29, 1956, the C&O stored the engine at Russell, Kentucky and then gave it to the Huntington group, donating it in 1962; the locomotive sat on static display with the society for more than six decades and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. In September 2025 it was announced that the Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum in Sugarcreek, Ohio had acquired No. 1308 as its 25th steam locomotive and first articulated.