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 railroad also issued them as postcards, some of them in 1933 for the Chicago Century of Progress fair. I’ve so far found five postcards and several other illustrations used as covers.
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The January painting depicts travel before the railroad in the form of a stagecoach, presumably in old Baltimore.
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The painting on the February issue and this postcard shows a meeting of the B&O’s founders as they wrote the railroad’s charter. This meeting took place on February 27, 1827.
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The March painting (and postcard) shows surveyors looking for a route across the Allegheny Mountains. Unlike the previous postcards, this one specifically says it was issued for the 1933 Chicago expo.
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The cover of the April issue shows a horsecar in the years before the B&O’s first steam locomotive. Stitt, who painted these covers, was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1880 and was hired by the B&O Magazine in 1912. He worked there until the B&O suspended the magazine in 1932 due to the Depression. After that, he worked as a fine artist focusing on landscapes and horses. He died in 1943.
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The May or June cover depicts the first train between Baltimore and the Ohio River in 1852. The locomotive appears to be one of Ross Winan’s camels.
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The July cover shows what appears to be the Atlantic, or a sister locomotive, startling a horse that is trying to pull a boat on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal.
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August presents a pre-Civil War and pre-dining car scene of people crowding into a lunchroom. The postcard calls the locomotive in the picture a “Dutch wagon” dating to 1852. It is probably a 4-4-0.
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The September cover portrays Union Army Colonel James Schoonmaker “keeping the line open.” A native Pennsylvanian, Schoonmaker won a Medal of Honor during the Civil War and later became vice president of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad. He died in October, 1927, so may have seen this painting before he passed away.
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The October cover compares the 1831York with a more modern locomotive, probably a 4-8-2 such as the Lord Baltimore.
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November’s cover shows a B&O train in the “early eighties” parked at a pier for loading or unloading onto nearby ships. The locomotive is too small to identify.
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I don’t have a December cover, but here is a poster done for the fair by Herbert Stitt. The poster appears to show the York, Tom Thumb, Lafayette, Atlantic, camel, Memnon (or something like it), Lord Baltimore, and #600.