Like many communities in the 19th century, when a rail line opened in an area, it was one more step out of the wilderness.

The massive brick-lined tube, hand-dug in the 1890s under the bed of downtown Baltimore’s Howard Street, has been closed to ...

The old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad built the tunnel in 1895 to get its trains to Philadelphia and Jersey City. Passenger service along this route ended in 1958, with only a summertime race fans ...

All the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridges, injured by JACKSON's rebel army, in his last attack, as well as those washed off by the late freshet, have this day been effectively restored, except ...

BALTIMORE, June 18, 2025--AmericanRail200.org was launched today, a one-stop source of information for the Bicentennial of American Railroading in 2027!

On February 28, 1827, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the first common carrier railroad chartered in North America for the commercial transportation of freight and passengers.

In 1935, General Motors’ Electro-Motive Corp. delivered an 1,800-horsepower diesel locomotive to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and by the following year the No. 50 engine was earning rave ...

While the collection is particularly valuable for its images of locomotives from smaller or relatively obscure railroad lines and industrial concerns (such as mining and lumber companies), it also ...

America 250-Ohio has announced the 250 Buckeye Train & Transportation Celebration at the Dennison Railroad Depot Museum in ...

Date Archival Repository Archives Center, National Museum of American History Type Archival materials Collection Citation Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Records, Archives Center, National Museum of ...

The official America 250-Ohio Buckeye Train & Transportation Celebration was announced in a preview event hosted by the ...