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During the winter seasons, the locomotive has been temporarily re-lettered The Polar Express, to promote the Museum's Polar Express-themed excursion trains. On August 28, 2021, No. 5300 was removed from static display and towed to the museum's locomotive shop for cosmetic refurbishment. The cosmetic restoration will likely take over several years.
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 .
During the winter seasons, the locomotive has been temporarily be re-lettered The Polar Express, to promote the museum's Polar Express-themed excursion trains. [12] On August 28, 2021, No. 5300 was removed from static display and towed to the museum's locomotive shop for cosmetic restoration. [13] The restoration will likely take over several ...
Currently awaiting a cosmetic restoration at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Built by Baldwin in 1927 as the prototype locomotive of the famous P-7 class, No. 5300 served the B&O while pulling the Royal Blue train, as well as the Capitol Limited train, until it was removed from the B&O's active list in 1957, one year after being ...
WMSR and the B&O Museum reached an agreement, and the WMSR purchased No. 1309 for its scrap value of $50,000. [ 9 ] [ 7 ] [ 12 ] WSMR subsequently worked with the museum, TTX , Hulcher Services, and CSX to separate the locomotive and load it onto two separate heavy-duty flatcars, since CSX prohibited the locomotive from being towed on its ...
Scenes of the B&O Railroad. Decorative title page for Ele Bowen, Rambles in the Path of the Steam-Horse, 1855. When construction began on the B&O in the 1820s, railroad engineering was in its infancy. Unsure exactly which materials would suffice, the B&O erred on the side of sturdiness and built many of its early structures of granite.
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The railroad abandoned use of the circular car shop in 1953 and made it available for use by the museum. In 1962, a fire destroyed the Mt. Clare locomotive erecting shop. [8] The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) purchased the B&O, also in 1962, and subsequently locomotive repairs were handled at the B&O shops in Cumberland, Maryland. Only car ...