This beautiful booklet was used to introduce the 1949 Columbian, an all-coach train between Chicago and Baltimore-Washington that complemented the all-Pullman Capital Limited. I’ve previously described this train twice, but this booklet provides far more information. Click image to download … Continue reading
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This little booklet was given to people viewing B&O’s air-conditioned train on display at the Century of Progress Exposition. The booklet describes each car of the train and the history behind some of those cars and the names applied to … Continue reading
Since the B&O had held a great centennial expo in 1927, it was ready to have a large exhibit at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition in 1933. Inside the fair’s Travel & Transport Building, the railroad had large dioramas … Continue reading
The Chesapeake & Ohio was the first railroad to order a 4-8-2 locomotive in 1911. That locomotive and tender weighed about 549,000 pounds and developed about 58,000 pounds of tractive effort. Rival Baltimore & Ohio did not try this wheel … Continue reading
The 1947 booklet is credited to cartoonist Don Herold, but it seems likely he did only the sketches, as the text draws heavily from other B&O publications of that era. The basic pitch is that Manhattan travelers would find it … Continue reading
In the three years since yesterday’s 1964 edition, the B&O/C&O timetable shrank from 28 to 12 pages. Most of the main trains are still there–including the Capital Limited, National Limited, and George Washington–but the Shenandoah was renamed the Diplomat. Operating … Continue reading
Chesapeake & Ohio took control of the Baltimore & Ohio in the early 1960s, and this timetable shows trains from both. It accompanies each schedule with abstract, subway-style maps of each route, which may have been easy to read but … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection were all published after World War II, but probably later than yesterday’s blotters. Click any blotter image to download a PDF of that blotter. Click other images for a larger view of that … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection were all published shortly after World War II. Click any blotter image to download a PDF of that blotter. Click other images for a larger view of that image. The PDFs are about … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection all come from the World War II years. Click any image to download a PDF of that blotter. The PDFs are about 0.3 to 0.6 megabytes in size. Given the subject matter, this … Continue reading