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Baltimore & Ohio’s Capitol Limited and National Limited Joe Welsh w/ dust jacket
Baltimore & Ohios Capitol Limited and National Limited Joe Welsh
Baltimore & Ohios Capitol Limited and National Limited
Joe Wesh
Hard cover dust jacket
160 Pages
Copyright 2007
Contents
Acknowledgments 6
Introduction 8
0NE A Trip on the National Limited, 1960 10
Two Predecessors and Early Years, 1880s-1923 . . . 28
THREE The Standard Heavyweight Era, 1923-1938 . . 36
FOUR The Streamlined Era, 1938-1958 62
FIVE An Honorable Retreat, 1958-1971 98
SIX Running Mates126
SEVEN The Competition 144
Epilogue 153
Bibliography 159
Index 160
With 40-plus years of passenger service already to its credit, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1923 inaugurated the BaltimoreWashingtonChicago Capitol Limited. Two years later, it followed with the BaltimoreWashingtonSt. Louis National Limited. The two trains would become renowned for outstanding service and cuisine.
Noted passenger-train authority Joe Welsh (Travel by Pullman and Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited), takes readers along on a marvelously illustrated account describing the development, motive power, and amenities of both trains from the heavyweight era through their respective demises in 1971 and 1968. Illustrated throughout with rare archival photography in both black-and-white and color, along with period ads, timetables, and menus, this look back at the heyday of the passenger train in America also describes the Capitol's and National's principal competitors, as well as their B&O running mates. The result is a fitting tribute to two of the most celebrated "name trains" in the annals of U.S. railroading.
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