The Sportsman was a named passenger night train of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.

[1] In its conception it was designed to connect resort areas of the Great Lakes and towards travelers to the Michigan lakes region, its direct region service accessed mountain resort destinations in Virginia and West Virginia.

5, the train accommodated sleepers carried by the New York Central to Chicago and St. Louis.

[8][9] Demand in central Kentucky on the Ashland-Lexington-Louisville branch declined, and the C&O eliminated that section from the train by 1956.

[13] While the C&O had dropped the Sportsman from its schedule, it continued to run coaches from Newport News to Detroit as No.

Passengers wishing to continue their trip east would need to transfer at Huntington to another coach.

These numbers and service north from Huntington to Columbus, then Detroit, was terminated on April 30, 1971.