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Pages in category "Passenger trains of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
By the end of 1861, 23 B&O railroad bridges had been burned and 36.5 miles (58.7 km) of track were torn up or destroyed. Since Jackson cut the B&O main line into Washington for more than six months, the North Central and Pennsylvania Railroads profited from overflow traffic, even as many B&O trains stood idle in Baltimore.
It was the last B&O long-haul passenger train to be powered by a steam locomotive from the venerable railroad's namesake city. [1] [2] In earlier decades the train ran from the B&O's Chestnut Street station in Philadelphia to Washington, DC's Union Station. [3]
The Royal Limited in 1898, one of the B&O's famed Royal Blue trains Royal Blue advertisement, c. 1898. The Royal Blue was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O)'s flagship passenger train between New York City and Washington, D.C., in the United States, beginning in 1890.
For almost 48 years, it was the B&O's flagship passenger train, noted for personalized service and innovation. At the time of its discontinuation on May 1, 1971, when Amtrak took over most rail passenger service in the U.S., the Capitol Limited operated between Washington and Chicago.
The Columbian between Jersey City and Washington was the first air-conditioned passenger train in North America. [1] Air-conditioned equipment began operating on the train on May 24, 1931. [2] In 1937 the B&O re-equipped the Columbian with cars from the Royal Blue. On December 19, 1941 the B&O extended the Columbian from Washington to Chicago.
The Shenandoah was an American named passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), one of four daily B&O trains operating between Jersey City, New Jersey and Grand Central Station in Chicago, Illinois, via Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from the 1930s to the 1950s.
The B&O gave up on competing with the Pennsylvania Railroad into New York, discontinuing all passenger service north of Baltimore on April 26, 1958. The National Limited 's eastern terminus then became Baltimore, providing through service as Train #1 between Baltimore and St. Louis, via Washington and Cincinnati.