Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (MBI Railroad Color History)

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As Americas first common-carrier railroad–a railroad mandated to operate for the general public and for commerce–the Baltimore & Ohio set the stage for North American railway development. And as such, the railroad racked up a remarkable list of firsts–first to provide scheduled passenger service, first to experiment with steam power, and the primary air-conditioned passenger cars, lightweight streamliners, high-speed passenger diesels, and “piggyback” freight services and products–to call only some.

In this expanded hardcover reissue of the preferred 2000 release, authors Kirk Reynolds and Dave Oroszi explore these accomplishments, and with them a significant chapter in American railway history. With an all-new number of more than 150 photos and illustrations, the book gives a colorful account of the evolution of one of the most nations most enduring railroad icons, through good times and bad. Reynolds and Oroszi follow the B&O from its infancy as a horse-powered railway within the first half of the nineteenth century to its 1987 amalgamation into the vast CSX Transportation network.

The book tells how the B&O, handicapped by its rugged route from the East Coast to the Midwest nonetheless proved second to none in serving its customers–whether on star passenger lines like the Capitol Limited and National Limited or on a freight network that included such notable offerings as “Sentinel Service” and the “Timesaver” freights. The railroads story, as it unfolds in these pages, makes for an evocative journey through 160 years of railroad history.

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