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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 .
National Pinball Museum - closed 2013, collection sold off in March 2014 [18] Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards , located inside historic Camden Street Station of 1857-1865 for the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as their main terminal and headquarters.
The Baltimore Streetcar Museum was founded as a nonprofit organization on June 8, 1966, by several members of the Baltimore Chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The City of Baltimore agreed to build the museum and lease it to the nonprofit organization for one dollar per year. [ 14 ]
The railroad abandoned use of the circular car shop in 1953 and made it available for use by the museum. In 1962, a fire destroyed the Mt. Clare locomotive erecting shop. [8] The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) purchased the B&O, also in 1962, and subsequently locomotive repairs were handled at the B&O shops in Cumberland, Maryland. Only car ...
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Timeline; 1827 report shows motivations of early boosters; John W. Garrett Collection, 1850–1880 Archived June 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Network
The President Street Station in Baltimore, Maryland, is a former train station and railroad terminal. Built in 1849 and opened in February 1850, the station saw some of the earliest bloodshed of the American Civil War (1861-1865), and was an important rail link during the conflict.
The B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing is a 15-acre (6.1 ha) historic site where a set of railroad bridges, originally built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, span the Potomac River between Sandy Hook, Maryland and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
When the B&O Headquarters Building was completed, it was the second tallest structure in Baltimore to the 16 story 249 foot Continental Trust Company Building, two blocks away at 201 East Baltimore St., which was constructed in 1900–1901 to designs prepared by the Chicago skyscraper architect D.H. Burnham and Company. [7]