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Topic: Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road

	BALTIMORE - LoveToKnow Article on BALTIMORE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Baltimore Street is the chief business thoroughfare; S. of it as well as a little to the N. is the wholesale, financial and shipping district; while West Lexington Street, a short distance to the N., and North Howard and North Eutaw Streets, between Fayette and Franklin Streets, have numerous department and other retail stores.
		The first branch is composed of one member from each ward, elected for a term of four years; the second branch of two members from each of four districts, and a president elected by the city at large, all for a term of four years; a property qualification is prescribed for members of each branch.
		From 1856 to 1860 Baltimore was under the control of the American or Know-Nothing party, and suffered greatly from election riots and other disorders, until as a remedy the control of the police system was taken from the mayor and council and exercised by the state government.
	76.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BALTIMORE.htm (2516 words)

	14th Street Bridge (Washington, D.C.) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road had served Washington from the north since 1835.
		The Alexandria and Washington Railway, allied with the BandO, was chartered in 1855 to connect the BandO in Washington to other railroads in Alexandria, by then part of Virginia.
		Rails were placed on the bridge, and the new connection opened February 9, 1862.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/14th_Street_Bridge (1320 words)

	Trains \| History \| B&O
		The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, Americas first common carrier, was chartered on February 28th 1827 by a group of Baltimore businessmen to ensure traffic would not be lost to the proposed Chesapeake & Ohio Canal.
		Cast iron rails replaced wood, trains of carts divided the weight upon the rails, flanged iron wheels held to the rail better than wood, and a breaking system was developed.
		The first bridge across the Ohio was begun in 1868 and took 37 months to complete, a second bridge was begun on the Parkersburg line in 1869 and completed in January of 1871.
	csx.history.railfan.net /history/histbo.html (1015 words)

	Washington streetcars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Incorporated in 1892 and opened in 1895, The Washington and Great Falls Electric Railway began in Georgetown at 36th and Prospect Streets and ran in a private right-of-way along the lands of the Washington Aqueduct to Glen Echo and from there along the old tracks of the Glen Echo Railroad to Cabin John.
		The Washington, Woodside and Forest Glen Railway, aka the "Forest Glen Trolley", was incorporated on July 26, 1895, and built a 2.9 mile line that opened on November 25, 1897.
		Because overhead wires were forbidden, trolley cars were not used, and instead all Washington streetcars were conduit cars, where electric power was delivered to the cars by way of an underground delivery system that can be thought of as a "third rail" but was in fact technologically different.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Washington_streetcars (3778 words)

	Railroad Maps: Titles: 6
		Rail road map accompanying the report an[d] exhibit of the Logansport & Northern Indiana Railroad showing its connections and the through route from St. Louis to New York of which this road forms a part; Logansport, Indiana May 1st 1854; L. Nash, Chief Engineer.
		Rail road map of Pennsylvania published by the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania, 1895.
		Skeleton map showing the Rail Roads completed and in progress in the United States, and those projected through the Public Lands and their connection with the principal harbours on the Lakes and on the Seaboard; printed by order of the Senate of the United States the 9th: Sess: 31st Congress 1848-9.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrmapTitles06.html (1469 words)

	Rails Around the Nation's Capital
		Historically, Washington, D.C. was one of the first cities in the United States to have regular rail service (over the Baltimore & Ohio).
		The formal opening of the Washington Branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, between Baltimore and the Nation's Capital, was celebrated on August 25, 1835.
		The Washington Metropolitan Area Subway System was identified by the Directors of the American Underground Construction Association as the "Most Distinguished United States Underground Project, 1975-2000, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the International Tunnelling Association.
	www.lakemirabel.com /Railroad/WashingtonDC1.html (2010 words)

	Washington, D.C. Chapter NRHS (National Railway Historical Society)
		The East Washington survived for another 40 years or so on a slim diet of a liquor company needing deliveries by rail and mostly delivering coal by rail to the local power company from the place locally as known Chesapeake Jct, the interchange with the B&O near the intersection of Deane Ave.
		The Baltimore and Potomac station was located at the southwest corner of 6th and B (now Constitution Ave) Streets NW, essentially where the National Gallery of Art, West Building now stands.
		This station was in use until the opening of Washington Union Station; its removal from the Mall was one of the major objectives of the Senate Park Commission in 1902.
	www.dcnrhs.org /dc_rail_history.htm (3155 words)

	Ogden Rails, Bamberger Railroad
		Built as a steam road and later converted to an electric interurban line, the Bamberger was promoted, financed and developed by the Bamberger family of Salt Lake City, who also had interests in coal mines, namely the Weber Coal mine near Coalville, and other mines in Carbon County.
		Ironically, it was the improved road and highway system that he developed while in office that brought about the eventual demise of the interurban railroad system in Utah, from the Cache Valley on the north to Payson on the south, with his own Bamberger line in between.
		In February 1959, the remainder of the railroad, including the two remaining switchers and all of the remaining rail, track hardware, and rolling stock and equipment, were sold for $300,000 for salvage to Morse Brothers Machinery of Denver, and Commercial Metals Co. of Dallas.
	utahrails.net /ogden/ogden-electric-bam.php (4970 words)

	DC Vote - Washington, DC, Historical Maps
		CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington, 1855] SUMMARY Topographical map of part of Maryland showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, canals, the Washington Aqueduct, roads, and railroads with milege on the main survey line.
		Washington, the beautiful capital of the nation / [compliments of] Baltimore and Ohio, America's first railroad, Washington's first railroad.
		Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia : ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their government, after the year MDCCC / engrav'd by Sam'l Hill, Boston ; in order to execute this plan, Mr.
	www.dcvote.org /trellis/denial/historicalmaps.cfm (2364 words)

	A Brief History of the Georgetown Branch.
		The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company was originally created in 1828 to accelerate development of direct transportation access for Baltimore to the Ohio River Basin to compete more effectively with economic rivals Philadelphia and New York.
		The expansion of rail systems, however, required large capital investments that were very risky in the boom-or-bust economics of the 19th Century railroad industry.
		The arch had to be enlarged during construction of the Georgetown Branch to accommodate the passage of the railroad.
	www.cctrail.org /CCT_History.htm (3059 words)

	Known Autograph Occurrences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Long-time president of Baltimore & Ohio who served from 1858 to death in 1884.
		The Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road Co BAL-662c-S-66
		Washington Branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road Co president
	www.coxrail.com /database/AutoOccur.asp?strAuto=6 (185 words)

	BCPL History and Genealogy InfoCenter Baltimore County History - Randallstown
		The Old Court Road was later used as the road to the county court at Joppatown, the county seat of Baltimore County from 1712 to 1768 and the rival of Baltimore City.
		Rolling Road, the oldest road still in use in the Randallstown area, was used by area planters to roll their hogsheads of tobacco and dry goods to market, and to barges on the local waterways for shipping to Baltimore harbor, or to the C and O Canal.
		Harrisonville was a town in Baltimore County 12 miles from Baltimore City on the Liberty Turnpike, and 15 miles from Towsontown.
	www.bcplonline.org /info/history/hist_ra_history.html (3255 words)

	Winans Steam Gun
		This point commands the Baltimore and Ohio Road, being the point at which the road from Washington branches off on one side to Washington, on the other to Harper's Ferry and Wheeling.
		At this point the burning of the bridges by the Baltimore mob interrupted farther railway travel, and the troops were marched to a position about one mile from the station, where they encamped.
		Their unsoldierlike carriage is disappearing, and in a very brief time the twenty-six regiments asked of Pennsylvania will form an army formidable to the traitorous foes of the country, and creditable to the loyal commonwealth so promptly putting them in the field.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /leefoundation/civil-war/1861/may/winans-steam-gun.htm (1494 words)

	The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Network
		Baltimore and Ohio: Yahoo Groups With over 1,100 members, the biggest group of the bunch.
		Baltimore and Ohio All-Time Diesel Roster Includes locomotive numbers, builder, model numbers and hundreds of photographs.
		Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by Kirk Reynolds and Dave Oroszi
	www.geocities.com /scott_w_dunlap/Main2.html (1668 words)

	Danville and Pottsville Rail Road Company to Kansas and Gulf Short Line Railroad Map Collection at ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was purchased by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1860.
		A map of the Georgia Rail Road and the several lines of railroad connecting with it, Febr.
		Map showing the Fredericksburg & Gordonsville Rail Road of Virginia, leading from Fredericksburg, via Orange C.H., to Charlottesville, where it connects with the Chesapeake & Ohio R.R. and the extension of the Orange & Alexandra R.R. to Lynchburg.
	ushistoricalarchive.com /train_maps/cd2 (2237 words)

	The Baltimore Reporter
		WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA has disbanded a unit set up in the 1990s to oversee the spy agency’s hunt for Osama bin Laden and transferred its duties to broader operations that track Islamist militant groups, a U.S. intelligence official said on Tuesday.
		The Washington Post felt this story was important enough news to carry it on the front page of their Sunday edition of the paper (the most read edition).
		A Baltimore City Paper scribbler using the byline Afefe Tyehimba blurted, ” …the Wheeler incident has been treated largely as a judicial matter where civil liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution were perhaps wrongly challenged.
	www.baltimorereporter.com (16721 words)

	Historical Washington DC Map Collection CD at USHistoricalArchive.com
		Plan of the city of Washington : seat of government of the United States / drawn from the original plan adopted and signed by J. Adams, president of the U.S., by W. Elliot.
		Map of the located route of the Metropolitan Rail Road and the adjacent country comprising the District of Columbia and the counties of Montgomery, Frederick, and Washington in the state of Maryland, Francis Dodge president M.R.R. Company, Edmund French, chief engineer, W. Hutton draughtsman, completed April 30, 1855 from surveys made in 1853 and 1854.
		Map of portions of Virginia and Maryland, extending from Baltimore to Strasburg, and from Washington to Gettysburg, with concentric circles at 5-mile intervals centering on Washington and on Baltimore.
	www.ushistoricalarchive.com /cds/state-dc.htm (2423 words)

	US Army Corps of Engineers Brief History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The General Survey Act authorized the president to have surveys made of routes for roads and canals "of national importance, in a commercial or military point of view, or necessary for the transportation of public mail." The president assigned responsibility for the surveys to the Corps of Engineers.
		Although the 1824 act to improve the Mississippi and Ohio rivers is often called the first rivers and harbors legislation, the 1826 act was the first to combine authorizations for both surveys and projects, thereby establishing a pattern that continues to the present day.
		The road extended from Cumberland, Maryland, across the Appalachian ridges of western Pennsylvania to Wheeling and then across the midsections of Ohio and Indiana to Vandalia, Illinois.
	www.hq.usace.army.mil /history/brief.htm (3326 words)

	Baltimore and Ohio Railroad--Newspaper Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On the one hand was Pennsylvania, the first to penetrate the defiles of her mountains with her roads, and she had been ever since employed with ceaseless assiduity, in further developing the resources of her domestic trade.
		The first general meeting of the citizens of Baltimore to confer upon the adoption of proper measures for undertaking this magnificent work, was on the second day of' February 1827.
		At the top was the inscription:—"Masons and Bricklayers of Baltimore, united July 4, 1828." Underneath was the motto,—"Liberty throughout the world." The members wore aprons ornamented with the emblems of their profession; their badges had on them a trowel, and a Representation of a Railroad.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/abbon.Html (8305 words)

	Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company - Washington Branch 1854 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company
		The certificate is the low number of #45 issued to the Savings Bank of Baltimore.
		If you are publishing a book for educational purposes or with the press, please contact us directly at 703-787-3552 for use of our content.
	www.scripophily.net /wasbranofbal.html (435 words)

	B&O Washington Branch Photo Tour
		Resuming where we left off on the Washington Branch, the Tropicana Juice Train is a blur as it rushes its cargo north past the Patuxent Branch at Savage.
		This photo looks downstream as the Bear Branch is oddly split into two, with the left side apparently flowing under the road, under the Bowie Road RR bridge.
		The road sign on the left depicts a fire truck to warn motorists that a fire station is found ahead.
	www.trainweb.org /oldmainline/was4.htm (1395 words)

	Pennsylvania Railroad Page (PRR)
		A postcard of the Cumberland Valley branch bridge over the Susquehanna at Harrisburg.
		Pennsylvania Railroad's I1 class 2-10-0 #4245 at Columbus, Ohio in 1937.
		The Washington, D.C. Chapter NRHS has a 1923 Pullman Heavy weight Car called the DOVER HARBOR.
	www.vetmed.auburn.edu /~smithbf/BFSpages/PRR.html (479 words)

	Ben Sullivan's Model Railroad
		Baltimore & Ohio, Reflections of the Capitol Dome Salamon, Stephen J., Oroszi, David P., Published by Old-Line Graphics, 1993, ISBN 1-879314-08-8.
		E4, 1 pgs, Text Word Count 287 (Abstract from WashingtonPost.com) Consultations were held this week by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad officials and several of the leading shippers of Georgetown regarding the proposed entrance of the Baltimore and Ohio.
		First was last year's announcement that the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, part of the Chessie System, planned to seek permission to abandon its Georgetown branch.
	bsulliva.oozy.ws /rr/georgetown_branch/history (2996 words)

	Washington DC Multi-Use Trails
		This is a rail trail between Shirlington and Purcellville, VA.
		The very popular CCT is another great rail trail project.
		The DC on-road section is closed to traffic on weekends.
	bikewashington.org /trails (344 words)

	Brief Description of the Town of Garrett Park
		Garrett Park, Maryland, was one of several cities and towns which sprang up along the Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad after that Branch opened in the summer of 1873.
		It connected Washington, D. and Point of Rocks, Maryland, where it joined the Main Line of the BandO west from Baltimore.
		The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad begins service on its Metropolitan Branch, which ran from Point of Rocks, Maryland, to Washington D.C. Metropolitan Investment and Building Company incorporated.
	www.garrettpark.org /guide/history/timeline.html (456 words)

	Manassas Gap Rail Road Loan - Alexandria Corporation Stock - Virginia 1860 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The merchants of Alexandria, fearful that they were losing their crucial wagon trade with the Shenandoah Valley, received a charter in 1848 from the state legislature for the Orange and Alexandria Railroad (O&A).
		By 1858 the company’s debts were enormous, and growing hostilities and talk of secession hung heavy in the air.
		The Manassas Gap Railroad never recovered from the war, during which its rails were torn up and its rolling stock destroyed by both sides.
	www.scripophily.net /magaprarolov.html (1113 words)

	Scripophily from Antique Networking
		Washington Farewell to his Officers Post Card 1910
		Description: Washington Farewell to his Officers Tuck Post Card printed around 1910.
		Washington Critic Company 1887 - Washington DC Newspaper - Owl Vignette signed by Hallet Kilbourn
	www.antiqnet.com /category,scripophily-32.html (103 words)

	Strasburg Rail Road Shops: Thomas and Friends Toys, Clothing, Music and Books
		Strasburg Rail Road Shops: Thomas and Friends Toys, Clothing, Music and Books
		CD - Sounds on The Road To Paradise
		Chicago & North Western - Milwaukee Road Pictorial
	www.strasburgrailroadstore.com /pindex.asp (525 words)

	Bill's Railroad Empire -- Favorite Sites
		A Tale of HO Scale, N Scale, and Beanie Babies Riding the Rails on Evert's Model Railroad in Progress!
		Colorful HO Railroad Features the Magnolia Cutoff on the Baltimore & Ohio
		HO Scale Dredgby Division of the Milwaukee Road
	www.billsrailroad.net /bills-favorite-links.html (947 words)

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