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The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.01. In the village, the population was spread out, with 26.1% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 29.1% from 25 to 44, 21.3% from 45 to 64, and 14.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years.
Contents. 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.
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 locomotives (the ...
1975. The B&O Railroad Museumis a museum and historic railway stationexhibiting 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 of ...
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the Grand Old Ditch, [ 1 ] operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River between Washington, D.C. and Cumberland, Maryland.
Baltimore was the origin of a major railroad workers' strike in 1877 when the B&O company attempted to lower wages. On July 20, 1877, Maryland Governor John Lee Carroll called up the 5th and 6th Regiments of the National Guard to end the strikes, which had disrupted train service at Cumberland in western Maryland.
Ellicott City Station, built 1830, is the oldest surviving passenger station in the United States. Photo taken in 1970, looking south towards Baltimore. The Old Main Line Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of Maryland. The line runs from Relay (outside Baltimore) west to Point of Rocks, and ...
B&O 5300 preserved in Baltimore Maryland, remainder scrapped. The Baltimore and Ohio’s P-7 class was a class of 20 Pacific type locomotives built in 1927. Named for the first 20 Presidents of the United States, they were the prime motive power for the B&O’s top passenger trains for 31 years. One example, Baltimore and Ohio 5300, the ...