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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad system map, circa 1961 The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway took financial control of the B&O in 1963. [ 52 ] On May 1, 1971, Amtrak had taken over all of the remaining non-commuter routes of the B&O.
Map of the B&O-PW&B connection in south Baltimore, prior takeover by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The B&O's original connection to New York in Baltimore was through surface street transfers to the old Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (PW&B), with passenger / freight cars (also known then as rail carriages) pulled by horses along the east–west running East Pratt Street route ...
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
1876 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad map from . This map is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Geography & Map Division under the digital ID g3701p.rr003390 .
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.
The Capitol Limited was an American passenger train run by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, originally between New York City and Grand Central Station in Chicago, via Washington Union Station in Washington, D.C., Camden Station in Baltimore, and Pittsburgh.
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 ...
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.