This note pad issued by the Baltimore & Ohio is printed in blue and an attempt at silver in order to evoke the B&O’s blue-and-stainless-steel streamliners. The picture shows the strata-domed Columbian or possibly the Capitol Limited. It http://appalachianmagazine.com/2017/06/23/breaking-possible-tornado-causes-damage-near-morgantown-west-virginia/ levitra … Continue reading
Today is the first anniversary of this blog. To date, I’ve posted nearly 500 PDFs of various streamliner memorabilia, including more than 100 for the Great Northern, 80 for the Union Pacific, nearly 80 for the Burlington (including the California … Continue reading
Only a few railroads took the opportunity to advertise around Christmas. Given limited advertising budgets, most aimed for the summer tourist season instead. But the New York Central, Pennsylvania, Pullman, and Union Pacific all did some creative Christmas-themed ads, and … Continue reading
In January, 1951, the Baltimore & Ohio introduced domes to its premiere Pullman train, the Capitol Limited. Like the Columbian, the Capitol Limited connected New York, Baltimore, and Washington with Chicago, and in later years the two were combined into … Continue reading
A B&O brochure calls the Columbian “The Train of the Year.” Although the Pennsylvania Railroad had completely re-equipped the all-Pullman Broadway Limited just 45 days before the B&O introduced the new Columbian, the nation’s oldest railroad could make the case … Continue reading
On May 5, 1949–just 45 days after the California Zephyr‘s inaugural run–the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad introduced the first dome cars in regular service east of Chicago. The cars, which the B&O called “strata-domes,” were part of the Columbian, an … Continue reading
Out of the 120,000 or so steam locomotives built and used in the United States, only about 220 were streamlined–or, as the Chicago & North Western called it, steamlined–for passenger service. Railroads went to the trouble to streamline steam locomotives … Continue reading
