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Trains Album of Photographs #13 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Spiral Bound 1946 B&O
Trains Album of Photographs #13 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Spiral Bound 1946
20 single side pages of photos. Measures approx. 10 X 14 inches.
Mirrors the typical equipment and scenic beauty along the line if America's oldest railroad.
The Baltimore & Ohio was America's first common carrier railroad, chartered in 1827 and opened for public business in 1830. It is still operating under the original Maryland charter, and not the least of its attributes is its history of continuous operation covering the entire development of the science of railroad transportation.
But the road also lives very much in the present as one of the leading trade routes between the great river valleys of our Central United States and the Eastern seaboard. As in the beginning the B&O is a great asset to the port of Baltimore, drawing to it the commerce of the Ohio Valley. But likewise it is a route from the West Virginia coal fields to the coastal cities, a route for manufactured goods in both directions between the great cities of the interior and Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia and New York, and a passenger line of no mean proportions, particularly between Washington and Baltimore and Cincinnati, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Chicago.
It is the main line between east and west through Washington which offers one of the principal arguments for traveling on this road. But in addition is the scenery of its great mountain crossings over the Alleghenies. Two main lines go west from Cumberland into the mountains, one the route of the National Limited toward Cinicinnati and the other the route of the Capitol Limited toward Pittsburgh. The Cincinnati line climbs Seventeen Mile grade, whose 2.2 per cent gradient set the standard for many other mountain railroads in this country, and then rolls down Cranberry grade alongside hard laboring eastward coal drags. The Pittsburgh line turns through Cumberland Narrows, which splits Wills Mountain, and then goes into the heart of the range through the broad flats of Wills Creek. At Sand Patch it tunnels the summit, and then works down the steep banks of the Youghiogheny toward the Steel City.
Diesel power has been featured for a decade on Baltimore & Ohio passenger trains, and the road was one of the first to adopt the freight Diesel. Improvement of steam power has not been neglected and the President class Pacifics have been completely rebuilt while new Mountain type and articulated steam locomotives have been built for freight service in recent years. The B&O has a long tradition of locomotive engineering to follow and live up to, starting with the old Tom Thumb with its rifle barrel flues and belted draft fan. It was on Seventeen Mile and Cranberry grades that the ungainly Camels of Ross Winans earned greatest popularity and it was on the B&O that Thatcher Perkins brought the Ten-Wheeler to great state of perfection. In more recent years the Mount Clare Shops in Baltimore have turned out such experiments as water tube fireboxes and the unusual Lady (4-4-4) and Lord (4-6-4) Baltimore locomotives which were used on the original lightweight streamlined Royal Blue.
Still it is more than equipment and history and geography which have given this railroad such a distinct personality. It is the people who run it. For B&O is a friendly railroad a trait drilled organization by its late great President Daniel Willard and maintained by his successor, Roy White. The friendliness exudes from brakeman, dining car waiter, and everyone else who meets the passenger. This, more than anything else, is responsible for the fact that B&O carries quite a passenger traffic even on the highly competitive New York-Washington run.
Photographs cannot mirror the spirit of Baltimore & Ohio, but they can show the physical properties of the road. We have selected the pictures in this album to give a comprehensive overall view of the railroad, and we have reproduced them by our special processes which have proved so popular in earlier albums of this series. The ring binding allows you to remove a page for framing without damaging the rest of the book, and the printing is on only one side of each sheet. We hope you like the book, and we invite you to write us if you have ideas for further albums or for improvements.
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