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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting mark BO) was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States. It operated as B&O from 1830 until 1987, when it was merged into the Chessie System ; its lines are today controlled by CSX Transportation .
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 ...
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Ohio Midland Railroad: B&O: 1900 1915 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Ohio and Mississippi Railroad: B&O: 1848 1867 Ohio and Mississippi Railway: Ohio and Mississippi Railway: B&O: 1867 1893 Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway: Ohio and Morenci Railroad: 1933 1954 N/A Ohio and North Western Railroad: N&W: 1886 1890
According to B&O Railroad's summary of its history, "when the original Second Empire style headquarters on the corner of Baltimore and Calvert street was destroyed in the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad executives decided to build a new 13 story steel-framed building two blocks west of the old site. The building's ...
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was so proud of its New Columbian Strata-Dome streamliner that it parked the passenger train all day in Akron. ... The company christened two eight-car trains in ...
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.
The railroad operated by The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, hereinafter called the Baltimore and Ohio, is standard gage, and is located in the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky, and in the District of Columbia.
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.