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History of the Baltimore & Ohio America’s First Railroad by Timothry Jacobs w/DJ
History of the Baltimore & Ohio Americas First Railroad by Jacobs
The History of the Baltimore & Ohio
Americas First Railroad
Edited By Timothy Jacobs
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
128 Pages
Copyright 1989
Contents
INTRODUCTION6
THE B&O: AMERICA'S FIRST RAILROAD10
TRACKS TO THE OHIO16
CINCINNATI AND ST LOUIS30
THE CIVIL WAR YEARS40
EXPANSION AND A TROUBLED ECONOMY56
THE TURN OF THE CENTURY66
THE WILLARD ADMINISTRATION72
THE FAIR OF THE IRON HORSE80
THE GREAT DEPRESSION92
B&O LOCOMOTIVES UP TO DIESELIZATION96
WORLD WAR II AND AFTER106
THE B&O, THE C&O AND CSX CORPORATION 118
Inside dust jacket
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier chartered in the US, and the first to construct tracks specifically for the purpose of transporting passengers and freight. Endowed with an enviable list of `firsts,' the story of the B&O is emblematic of all that is revered in American railroading.
When the B&O merged with the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Western Maryland railroads on 4 February 1963, yet another dramatic chapter of this quintessentially American story was begun.
The history of this great railroad is a national treasure and a monument to the growth of the nation itself. Truly, the B&O grew up with the United Statesfrom the `first stone laid' for the railroad on 4 July 1828, to the B&O's, and the nation's, coming of age in the twentieth century. And, just as America braces itself afresh to face the problems of a new, bold century, the B&O, too, lives onas a vital component of today's CSX Corporation, one of the healthiest and most forward-looking transport and communications organizations in the world today.
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