In 1960, Chesapeake & Ohio began buying stock in the Baltimore & Ohio. B&O stockholders approved the sale and by 1964 the C&O owned 90 percent of B&O stock. The two continued to operate as separate railroads for many years, … Continue reading
This menu was used on the Ambassador, a train that connected Baltimore and Detroit until it was terminated in 1964. The menu is undated, but the prices look like the mid-1960s, so it was probably issued near the end of … Continue reading
This booklet is dated 1951, but the B&O had issued similar booklets many times in the past. One is mentioned in the railroad’s 1933 Century of Progress booklet. Click image to download a 15.7-MB PDF of this booklet. Some – … Continue reading
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
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
