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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 station is now the Oakland B&O Museum and is run by the Garrett County Historical Society. [ 4 ] The Museum features the Baltimore & Ohio 476, a 2-8-0 Consolidation-type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in December 1920. [ 5 ]
The inaugural horse-drawn B&O train traveled the 13 miles (21 km) of the newly completed track from Mount Clare to Ellicott Mills (now Ellicott City, Maryland), on May 22, 1830, the first regular railroad passenger service in the U.S. [6] The existing Mount Clare station brick structure was constructed in 1851. [6]
Baltimore and Ohio No. 5300, also known as President Washington, is the sole survivor of the P-7 class 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotives.It was built by Baldwin in 1927, and it was used on mainline passenger trains across the Baltimore and Ohio system, particularly the Royal Blue train, until it was retired in 1957.
Western Maryland Scenic Railroad 1309 (officially nicknamed Maryland Thunder [2]) is a preserved compound articulated H-6 class 2-6-6-2 "Mallet" steam locomotive.It was the very last steam locomotive for domestic service built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1949 and originally operated by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway where it pulled coal trains until its retirement in 1956.
(Note: This locomotive never operated for the B&O, as the Oakland Museum only repainted it to represent a typical B&O locomotive. It was initially built by Baldwin in 1920 as for the Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railroad as No. 40, and in 1925, the Railroad was obsorbed into the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway , and it was renumbered to 76.
PRR 8275 "Norristown Inn"/ SEMTA/ MARC 147 coach. Leased from B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD since 2005. Now owned by SRI. US Army 89639/ Amtrak 1363/ MSTX 1363 baggage. Currently in storage. MiTrain (Ex-Metra) Gallery Cars; Freight cars: Ann Arbor PS-1 Boxcar #1314; Chesapeake & Ohio/Pere Marquette Gondola #31262
The train in the 2004 film The Polar Express was modeled after steam locomotive Pere Marquette 1225. The film also included audio recordings of the locomotive in operation. [5] It is the locomotive that Chris Van Allsburg said was the inspiration for the book, having seen it as a child when it was on the Michigan State University campus. The ...