Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the oldest railroad in the United States and the first steam-operated common carrier. Construction of the line began in 1828, and it operated as B&O from 1830 until
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Columbian crosses the Potomac River from Maryland to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1949
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cornerstone is displayed at the B&O Railroad Museum under a painting depicting Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence, at a groundbreaking ceremony on July 4, 1828.
Twelve and a half cent note issued by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in 1841.
Scenes of the B&O Railroad. Decorative title page for Ele Bowen, Rambles in the Path of the Steam-Horse, 1855
Colonel Stonewall Jackson's operations against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1861 were aimed at disrupting the critical railroad used heavily by the opposing Union Army as a major supply route. A
The Great Train Raid of 1861 sign at the historic train depot in Strasburg, Virginia, where between 14 and 19 locomotives were brought over the Valley Pike from Martinsburg, West Virginia, and Winchester, Virginia.
Photo of Virginia Militia raid base at Harpers Ferry taken later in 1865, looking east (downstream)
Sign at Point of Rocks mentioning May 1861 raid
Historic Martinsburg railyard (2008) where over 56 locomotives and trains were captured by Stonewall Jackson