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To link the port of Baltimore to the Ohio River, the state of Maryland in 1827 chartered the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), the first section of which opened in 1830. Similarly, the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company was chartered in 1827 to connect Charleston to the Savannah River , and Pennsylvania built the Main Line of Public ...
1795–96 & 1799–1804 or '05 — In 1795, Charles Bulfinch, the architect of Boston's famed State House first employed a temporary funicular railway with specially designed dumper cars to decapitate 'the Tremont's' Beacon Hill summit and begin the decades long land reclamation projects which created most of the real estate in Boston's lower elevations of today from broad mud flats, such as ...
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 ...
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. – via Google Books. Orth, Samuel P. (1910). A History of Cleveland ...
Eight operators were used (minimally six) and followed a Train Procedures book and used car-cards and waybills. [10] [11] The V&O was a bridge route, and most mainline traffic was to and from points beyond the V&O. 30-40 trains per day were needed to carry the V&O traffic. An important concept was that the use of walk-around throttles enabled ...
The National Limited was originally an all-Pullman train in the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to compartment and drawing-room sleeping cars, it featured a club car, observation library lounge car, and a full-service dining car. Onboard amenities for the deluxe train's clientele included a secretary, barber, valet, maid, manicure, and shower ...
The Erie station was one of three railroad stations in Kent. In addition to the Erie Railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) operated a Kent station until 1971 and the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (W&LE) until 1938. Both of those stations were located less than one mile from the Erie station, though neither were as large or prominent ...
Baltimore & Ohio electric engine. The first use of electrification on a main line was on a four-mile stretch of the Baltimore Belt Line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in 1895 connecting the main portion of the B&O to the new line to New York through a series of tunnels around the edges of Baltimore's downtown.