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	Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum - Become A Volunteer
		Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum - Become A Volunteer
		Be a part of Baltimore railroad history by volunteering at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum!
		The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum has volunteer positions for all interests, abilities and skill levels.
	www.borail.org /become-a-volunteer.shtml (0 words)

	Technology, Invention, and Innovation collections
		Garrett was elected a director of the railroad in 1855.
		The Baltimore and Ohio RR carried out the first military rail transport in history and the transfer of 20,000 men from the Potomac to Chattanooga in 1863 was a major triumph for its president.
		During his connection with the railroad the stock increased from $57 to $200; at the outbreak of the Civil War the railroad was operating 514 miles of rail, gross earnings where $4,000,097 and net per mile was $4246.
	americanhistory.si.edu /archives/d8171.htm (1110 words)

	Ohio Railway Report 1890's History
		The railroad of this company was built by the city of Salem under a special act authorizing certain cities, counties, townships and towns to build and lease or operate railroads.
		Incorporated June 10, 1891, under laws of Ohio; the original certificates of incorporation fixed the southern terminus at Tiffin; this terminus was subsequently changed to Mansfield, Ohio, by written consent of all stockholders and resolutions of directors adopted October 10, 1877, and certified copy filed with the Secretary of State, October 27, 1877.
		The Findlay, Ft. Wayne and Western Railroad was the consolidation of the Findlay and Western, and the Ft.
	www.railsandtrails.com /ohiorailwayreport/1902/1890.html (2933 words)

	The Railroad Builders by John Moody,1919
		As in the case of numerous other railroads, the financial breakdown of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was primarily due to a bad or reckless financial policy, for there was nothing inherently insecure in the railroad property itself.
		The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.
		In the earlier days of railroading, and especially in the long period which came to an end with the death of Harriman, the typical railroad president was usually a man of great wealth who had secured his position by owning a large financial interest in the property.
	cprr.org /Museum/Railroad_Builders/Railroad_Builders_05.html (4470 words)

	Baltimore and Ohio Railroad - The Excursion From Baltimore
		Baltimore and Ohio Railroad - The Excursion From Baltimore
		The Virginia and Maryland Press, the practical and fast friends of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and all other works of Internal Improvement, are fully represented, and are, as they should be, among the most honored guests of the company.
		The railroad extending from the depot as far down as the Locust Point Junction, was crowded by thousands of spectators who had assembled to witness the departure of the train, which drawn by two powerful locomotives, dashed along in fine style.
	www.wvculture.org /history/transportation/bando05.html (1338 words)

	Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Baltimore and Ohio Railroad or B&O, first U.S. public RR, chartered in 1827 by a group of Baltimore businessmen to regain trans-Allegheny traffic lost to the newly opened Erie Canal.
		Baltimore and Ellicott’s Mills, Md. Horses were the 1st source of power, but the successful trial run of Peter Cooper’s Tom Thumb in Aug. 1830, brought the change to steam locomotives.
		The B&O was the 1st RR to publish a timetable, to use electric locomotives and specialty cars (e.g., dining and baggage), and to run fully air-conditioned trains.
	www.bartleby.com /69/19/B01419.html (209 words)

	Today in History: February 28
		On May 24, 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse used the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad right of way to send the first telegraphic message from the Supreme Court room in the Capitol at Washington to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore.
		Baltimore and the Ohio River were connected by rail in 1852, when the BandO was completed at Wheeling, West Virginia.
		In the 1890s, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad commissioned William Henry Jackson to photograph a series of scenic views along the BandO route in western Maryland.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/feb28.html (628 words)

	E-book No.2 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
		For more than 160 years, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad linked 13 great states with the nation, providing a friendly, folksy style of passenger and freight service not often found on other railroads that were its contemporary, save for the Erie Railroad.
		In terms of diesel motive power, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is noted for having had one of the largest fleets of EMD F3/F7 cab units and one of the largest fleets of GP9 roadswitchers of any railroad east of the Mississippi River.
		The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad received its first diesel road passenger units in1937; the EMD EA, which was the first of the long line of E series passenger diesels, the last of which was an E9A delivered to the Union Pacific in early 1964.What follows is the diesel roster as it looked in 1960.
	members.tripod.com /generaljim1-ivil/theerielackawannalimited/id13.html (2816 words)

	Bridges and Tunnels of Allegheny County and Pittsburgh, PA - RR History of Washington Co, 1882 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company was the first corporation which made any actual movement towards the construction of a railway line through the valley of the Monongahela River or any part of the territory of Washington County.
		The surveys of the Baltimore and Ohio Company were continued in 1836 to 1838, and a route was decided on as to its principal points.
		The preparations of the Baltimore and Ohio Company for the construction of a railroad through Pennsylvania embraced not only the making of elaborate surveys, but also the making of contracts for the right of way, which they did with several hundred land-owners in Washington, Fayette, and Somerset Counties.
	pghbridges.com /articles/railroads/RRhistory_washington.htm (540 words)

	Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD Skip to Content.
		This museum, affiliated with the Smithsonian, celebrates the birthplace of railroading in America and depicts the industry's economic and cultural influences.
		The Mount Clair Station, exhibiting the story of the B and O Railroad, was built in 1851 to replace the 1829 original, which was the first rail depot in the country.
	www.superpages.com /cities/mtg/39980 (240 words)

	Baltimore Travel Itinerary--The Baltimore & Ohio Transportation Museum and Mount Clare Station
		The National Historic Landmark Baltimore and Ohio Transportation Museum and Mount Clare Station is a collection of three interrelated buildings standing on the oldest railroad terminal site in the country.
		The fledgling Baltimore and Ohio Railroad established its headquarters at Mount Clare in the 1830s, and the first regularly scheduled passenger trains in the nation carried customers from here to Ellicott Mills, 13 miles west.
		The Baltimore and Ohio Transportation Museum and Mount Clare Station is an institution dedicated to the preservation of historic railroad equipment.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/baltimore/b7.htm (309 words)

	The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in New Jersey
		The Baltimore and Ohio had something of a stake in the New York market as early as 1840, just five years after completing its branch to Washington DC.
		Baltimore had rail connections, but they were not set up for efficient north-south through traffic.
		In 1944, the BandO conveyed its Baltimore and New York Railway property to the Staten Island Rapid Transit and dissolved the BandNY The SIRT worked this line with its own as well as assigned BandO locomotives since it was opened in 1890.
	jcrhs.org /B&O.html (5009 words)

	Railroad
		Railroads were soon being built in the United States with the first successful venture carrying goods from Quincy, Massachusetts to Boston in 1827.
		Initially, farmers were against the development of the railroad as the train tracks frequently ran through their property.
		Previously, the expense of transporting the iron ore to the blast furnaces in Pennsylvania where steel was produced hindered the rapid development of the mine.
	www.southeastmuseum.org /html/railroad.html (935 words)

	Chapter 17
		The author was in Baltimore at that time, and participated as one in the vast crowd assembled to take part in the imposing ceremonies of that eventful day.
		The construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was commenced in 1828, and completed in 1852.
		The amount of expense involved in the prosecution of this work, when compared with the construction of railroads at the present day, only fills our minds with the more wonder and admiration at the boldness displayed by the projectors of such a stupendous undertaking as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
	www.history.rochester.edu /steam/brown/chpt17.html (1074 words)

	Exploring the contents of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad annual reports: 1827-1856 Accounting Historians Journal, The ...
		Abstract: In 1995, a nearly complete collection of the annual reports of the earliest interstate and common carrier railroad in the U. S., the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O), was rediscovered in the archival collection at the Bruno Library of the University of Alabama.
		The earliest annual reports of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) are catalogued and analyzed as to their content.
		The merchants of Baltimore sought alternative transport technology to preserve Baltimore's preeminence as the country's third largest city, placing their support behind the potential of horse-drawn carts and cars moved along a fixed "rail road," leading west to the Ohio River.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3657/is_200006/ai_n8883454 (862 words)

	Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum, Maryland
		Pratt Street runs west to the Mount Clare Railroad Station of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, from which the first passenger train in the United States ran west to Ellicott's Mills in 1830.
		The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum takes in the Mount Clare Station (1851), the Print Shop (1884) and a roundhouse that now houses an excellent collection of historic locomotives.
		Unauthorized duplication in part or whole without prior written consent prohibited by international laws.
	www.planetware.com /baltimore/baltimore-and-ohio-railroad-museum-us-md-rail.htm (148 words)

	Live in Baltimore - Neighborhood History
		Patterson was well-known during his lifetime as a Revolutionary soldier, one of Baltimore's earliest merchants, and a man of high public spirit who organized a number of important institutions.
		This architectural variety makes the area unusual in Baltimore, where most neighborhoods were developed as solid row house neighborhoods or as suburbs with frame cottages of more or less uniform style.
		Considered to be Baltimore's most elaborate piece of architecture since the Courthouse, this new home for the third oldest high school in the country was also the most expensive undertaking by, the school system up until that time.
	www.livebaltimore.com /nb/list/coldstr/history (1421 words)

	Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It also served to connect those railroads for freight transfers, and it is now owned by CSX Transportation, the successor to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
		The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began using Grand Central Station in 1892, when a connection between the CTT and the BandO at South Chicago.
		On January 6, 1910 the Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad was created to purchase the CTT at foreclosure, giving the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad control of the both the terminal railway system, as well as Grand Central Station.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baltimore_and_Ohio_Chicago_Terminal_Railroad (616 words)

	Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company - Old Tom Thumb Train Vignette
		Beautifully engraved Stock Certificate from The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad issued in the period from the 1930 to the 1959.
		The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) is one of the oldest railroads in the United States, with an original line from the port of Baltimore, Maryland west to the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia and Parkersburg, West Virginia.
		Chapter 123 of the 1826 Session Laws of Maryland, passed February 28, 1827, and the state of Virginia on March 8, 1827, chartered the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, with the task of building a railroad from the port of Baltimore, Maryland west to a suitable point on the Ohio River.
	www.scripophily.net /bo.html (893 words)

	Baltimore and Ohio Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad to Annapolis connected to this line at Annapolis Junction, Maryland, in 1840.
		This was initially renamed as the Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore Railroad in and then again to the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad in 1889.
		Part of the line was severed from the rest of the system by flooding, and became part of the Wellsville, Addison and Galeton Railroad in 1955.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railroad (2237 words)

	Baltimore and Ohio Railroad - The Approaching Celebration
		There has seldom occurred in the annals of our city an event of more importance than the opening of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which is to be celebrated on the 11th and 12th of this month.
		The Directors however, knowing from the history of the past that they were but reaping the common rewards usually bestowed under such circumstances, determined to press forward, well knowing that success was the only means which could ensure them an impartial hearing before the grand commercial assize of the country.
		May we not confidently hope that this Company will reap the full reward of their labors and that the city of Baltimore will realize from this connection all that she can wish, and even more than she expected.
	www.wvculture.org /HISTORY/transportation/bando02.html (190 words)

	B&O
		Founded in 1827, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first railway in the United States chartered for both freight and passenger service.
		Westward from Baltimore, the railroad diverged at Cumberland, Maryland.
		Whereas most railroads which used engines of the 2-10-2 configuration adopted White's "Santa Fe" designation, the BandO referred to engines of this type as "Big Sixes" — because they were big (by the standards of the day), and because they occupied the 6000 numbering series.
	home.att.net /~s.a.joyce/docs/bo.htm (1560 words)

	Cator Print #49 - Baltimore and Ohio Viaduct Over Patapsco River. - Cator Collection - Enoch Pratt Free Library - ...
		It was called the Thomas viaduct after Philip E. Thomas, first president of the Baltimore and Ohio and was designed by Benjamin H. Latrobe, son and namesake of the architect of the Cathedral and of the Capitol at Washington.
		"To Latrobe", says the author of the "Story of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad," is due credit for the fashioning of this remarkable stone structure, a curving viaduct seven hundred feet long, of eight elliptical arches, each sixty feet in width and about sixty-five feet above the level of the stream.
		Officials at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Musem confirmed on December 21, 2000, that the viaduct was still standing in mainline service with CSX, serving passenger and freight trains.
	www.epfl.net /exhibits/catorprints/cator049.html (517 words)

	The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On July 4, 1828, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, broke ground for the cornerstone of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
		This was a fortunate move for both the railroad and Masonville, Fairfield, Wagner's Point and Curtis Bay.
		Soon after the Baltimore and Ohio came into Brooklyn, with its extension into Curtis Bay, there was an early morning train which left Camden Station to bring workmen to this area, returning them to the city in the afternoon.
	www.bcpl.net /~jgreenst/bcb_hist/b-o_rr.html (382 words)

	Baltimore & Ohio Railroad — FactMonster.com
		Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (BandO), first U.S. public railroad, chartered in 1827 by a group of Baltimore businessmen to regain trans-Allegheny traffic lost to the newly opened
		During the Civil War the railroad moved Union troops and supplies.
		The BandO was the first railroad to publish a timetable, to use electric locomotives and specialty cars (e.g., dining and baggage), and to run fully air-conditioned trains.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/bus/A0805971.html (192 words)

	Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum, Maryland
		Pratt Street runs west to the Mount Clare Railroad Station of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, from which the first passenger train in the United States ran west to Ellicott's Mills in 1830.
		The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum takes in the Mount Clare Station (1851), the Print Shop (1884) and a roundhouse that now houses an excellent collection of historic locomotives.
		Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum Map (Maryland - Baltimore)
	planetware.com /.../baltimore-and-ohio-railroad-museum-us-md-rail.htm (165 words)

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