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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting mark BO) was the first steam-operated common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States. [1] Construction of the line began on July 4, 1828, and it operated as B&O from 1830 until 1987, when it was merged into the Chessie System .
A Baltimore and Ohio Crab, the Mazeppa, built around 1837 and photographed after years of service.. The name Tom Thumb is forever associated with the B&O, as the first steam locomotive built in the United States for an American railroad.
B&O's Martinsburg Shops, circa 1858. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) was founded on February 28, 1827. [4] On May 21, 1842, the first steam locomotive arrived in Martinsburg and, later that same year, November 10, the first passenger train. [4]
The B&O Railroad Museum is a museum and historic railway station exhibiting historic railroad equipment in Baltimore, Maryland.The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) company originally opened the museum on July 4, 1953, with the name of the Baltimore & Ohio Transportation Museum.
In 1869 the B&O leased the Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark Railroad (SM&N), which stretched north from Newark on the Central Ohio Railroad to Sandusky on Lake Erie.Desiring to extend its system to Chicago, the B&O incorporated the Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Chicago Railway as separate companies in Ohio and Indiana on March 13 and March 14, 1872, respectively; a third company with the same name ...
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 .
The station is on the ex Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and was a B&O passenger station for most of the twentieth century. The station was built in 1905 and operated as a passenger station until 1971, when the B&O yielded passenger train service to Amtrak . [ 2 ]
In 1949, a brand new lightweight Columbian train set for travel between Baltimore, Maryland, via Washington to Chicago was built. The consists were ordered from Pullman-Standard for April, 1949 delivery and these two train sets have the distinction of being the only all-new consists built for the B&O in the postwar period.