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
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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
Here are five more postcards from around 1913 contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader. These aren’t quite as offensive as yesterday’s. The first one even makes the chief appear able to read English, which wasn’t true for most Indian elders … Continue reading
A Streamliner Memories reader sent scans of these postcards. Most are undated but the first one is postmarked October 23, 1913 in Malta, Montana. A message to the recipient in Chicago says it was written “on board the Oriental Limited.” … Continue reading
In September, 1948, New York Central invited General Dwight Eisenhower to inaugurate the postwar 20th Century Limited, which consisted of all-new passenger cars pulled by nearly new Diesel locomotives. The railroad printed up this “First Trip” envelope to be hand … Continue reading
Before Chicago Union Station opened in 1925, there was Chicago Union Depot, which opened in 1881. The depot served joint owners Pennsylvania, Burlington, Chicago & Alton, and what is now called the Milwaukee Road but was then called the St. … Continue reading
These four cards are undated, but the logo on the back dates them to the post-war era and the linen finish on the card dates them to not much later than 1950. One of the photographs appears on a menu … Continue reading
Although Union Pacific swapped out some equipment on the original 1936 City of Denver, as of 1950 it was still using its original M-10005 and M-10006 locomotives and cars that were slightly smaller in profile than what had become the … Continue reading