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B&O Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment by Craig Bossler Morning Sun
B&O Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment by Craig T Bossler
Morning Sun Books
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
128 pages
Copyright 1996
CONTENTS
Passenger Operations 6
Postal cars 8
Baggage cars 9
Box Express cars 10
Express cars 11
Coaches 12
Domes16
Diners 17
Sleepers20
Observations 1, 25
Flat cars30
Flat cars, Trailer Train33
Gondolas35
Hoppers, open41
Hoppers, covered51
Box cars 62
Livestock cars95
Cabooses97
Non revenue, passenger equipment ancestry 107
Non revenue, freight equipment ancestry 112
Non revenue, other 120
Miscellaneous 126
Trailers 128
General History
One publication refers to the B&O as "The railroad that grew up with the United States." Founded in 1827 by Baltimore business men, it was a railroad of numerous firsts in the industry and instrumental in the Civil War having assisted in the movement of 20,000 troops, their equipment and supplies in 1863. This event is reflected in the blue and gray of B&O passenger equipment.
One hundred years later by the 1960's, however, the railroad industry was in fiscal trouble. Government conspired against the very transportation element that built this nation by lavishing billions on airports and roads, while the railroads had to finance their own way - and pay taxes on it to boot. Railroads were required to provide money losing passenger service while airlines can indiscriminately cancel flights. This drain, along with loss of postal contracts to haul mail, and even Railway Express Agency taking to the road, became a severe fiscal burden on the B&O and much of the rest of the nation's railroads. It has been well documented, however, that the B&O tried valiantly to provide quality passenger service to the end. As other roads abandoned the dining car, B&O developed the food bar coach, and also provided en route movies in the sixties.
As railroads sought merger partners to save themselves and the industry, NYC and Alleghany Corp. sold their B&O stock to the C&O, which provided 90% ownership in the B&O. Mergers in the industry continued with the B&O as well as the C&O being swallowed up first as Chessie System in the early 1970's, then as CSX on August 31, 1987.
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