This dinner menu has the same cover (in a slightly different color) as yesterday’s lunch menu. Instead of advertising something as utilitarian as piggyback service, however, the back cover promotes the Strata-Domes in service “on three B&O Dieseliners”: the Capitol … Continue reading
The front cover of this lunch menu has a photo of the capitol building after which the Capitol Limited is named. The back cover, however, advertises the “new” trailer-on-flatcar service, which it notes was inaugurated on the Baltimore & Ohio … Continue reading
This timetable is a respectable 52 pages long. Twelve of those pages, however, are full-page ads or cutaway drawings of sleeping car accommodations. The actual timetables fill just 25 pages, including equipment lists but excluding fares, the station index, and … Continue reading
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
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
