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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 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.
Central Ohio Railroad: B&O: 1847 1915 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Central Union Depot and Railway Company of Cincinnati: B&O/NYC: 1884 1935 N/A Central Valley Railway: W&LE: 1901 1916 Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad: Chagrin Falls and Lake Erie Railroad: W&LE: 1901 1916 Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway: Chagrin Falls and Southern Railroad: W&LE ...
Early locomotives. 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. It was built strictly as a demonstrator, but it was succeeded by a series of similar ...
[11] [12] By 1838, Franz Anton von Gerstner was the "... leading engineer and scholar of the emerging railroad industry on the continent of Europe." [13] Because of railroad growth in the United States, von Gerstner felt the need to study American railroads, including the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Thomas Viaduct.
1975. 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. It has been called one of the most significant collections ...
Railroad Depots of Central Ohio. Images of Rail. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-6174-5 – via Google Books. Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs (1904). Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs to the Governor of the State of Ohio for the Year 1903. Springfield, OH: The Springfield Publishing Co ...
The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (reporting mark WLE) was a Class I railroad mostly within the U.S. state of Ohio. It was leased to the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate Road) in 1949, and merged into the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1988. A new regional railroad reused the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway name in 1990 ...
Camp Chase Railway. Canadian National Railway. Cedar Point & Lake Erie Railroad. Central Railroad of Indiana. Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad. Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway. Cincinnati Southern Railway. Columbus and Ohio River Railroad. CSX Transportation.