Despite the title of this brochure, it isn’t a guide to New York City but a guide to getting to and from the city on the Baltimore & Ohio rather than some other railroad. The B&O didn’t go into New … Continue reading
Category Archives: Baltimore & Ohio
Many Baltimore & Ohio streamlined trains were really just remodeled versions of heavyweight trains. This included the Cincinnatian, which began operating in 1947, when new equipment was hard to obtain because manufacturers were backed up with postwar orders. Click image … Continue reading
The Baltimore & Ohio started publishing an eponymous employee’s magazine in 1912. In 1927, the magazine asked its staff artist, Herbert Stitt, to do a dozen paintings portraying the history of the railroad for use on the magazine’s covers. The … Continue reading
While many of the locomotives on the postcards presented yesterday were replicas or were rebuilt to look like locomotives older than they really were, the remaining locomotives on B&O’s centenary postcards are authentic (although one was renumbered). Four of the … Continue reading
To celebrate the centennial of the start of its construction, the Baltimore & Ohio held a two-week-long Fair of the Iron Horse in September and October, 1927. Part of the fair was a daily presentation of restored or replicated historic … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s menu, this one is marked for the Ambassador. The prices on this menu are the same as yesterday’s, so they were probably issued the same year. Based on the advertising for the “new Slumbercoach” on the back of … Continue reading
Featuring the Lincoln Memorial on the cover, this menu was used on the Ambassador, B&O’s train connecting Baltimore with Detroit. The back of the menu advertises “another new B&O feature: Slumbercoaches on the Columbian.” The B&O introduced Slumbercoaches in 1958, … Continue reading
The cover of this menu features what appears to be a demitasse cup of coffee (in B&O’s Centenary pattern) with the note that it was “on the house,” a “pleasant B&O tradition.” However, the menu itself says nothing about coffee … Continue reading
Baltimore & Ohio introduced “strata-domes” to the Columbian in 1949. Today we have two menus featuring a strata-dome on their covers. One is dated 1952 while the other is undated but must be from a little later considering some of … Continue reading
I presented a B&O menu card a couple of days ago that I guessed was from 1950 and was intended for lunch. I don’t have to guess the date of this one as it says 5-51, but it still doesn’t … Continue reading