Model Train Bridge: Using Google Sketchup, I designed this HO scale model railroad bridge. It's based on the C&O bridge that spans the Ohio River here in Cincinnati. I downloaded a full scale train model from the library and then scaled it down to HO size. This bri…

Chesapeake & Ohio's 4-6-4s included a small batch of Hudsons it put into service during the 1940s. One streamlined example, #490, survives today.

Souurce: PTA Transit Authority

Hi all. I want to have a farm scene on the layout I am planning. I am thinking of using lots of Plasticville buildings and was wondering how the Ertl Farm County sets compare size wise and scale wise to Plasticville? I know they are...

Baltimore & Ohio's Royal Blue was the railroad's elegant train which served New York and Washington, D.C. It was eventually canceled in 1958 due to stiff competition with the PRR.

This friendly sleeping car porter is at the dodrway to his car on the C&O passenger train, the "George Washington" in Richmond, Virginia on October 5, 1968. While in the army at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, I made a weekend visit to the Colonial capital of Williamsburg, Virginia. I rode an overnight train from New York City to Richmond, where I boarded the George Washington for the last leg of my journey. Regrettably, this 48 mile, 50 minute trip was the only journey I ever made on the train. An "everywhere East" train, the eastbound George Washinton incredibly had origination points in St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, Louisville and Detroit, with destinations of both Newport News and Washington, DC (with through sleeping cars to New York City). The selection of sleeping cars was mind boggling. They included the following cars: 1) St. Louis to Washington, DC; 2) Louisville to New York City; 3) Ashland, Kentucky to Newport News, Virginia; 4) Hot Springs, Virginia to New York City; and 5) White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia to New York City. These sleeping car routes are referenced from my August, 1967 Official Guide. It may be that some of the sleeping cars had been discontinued by the time of my ride, fourteen months later. View my collections on flickr here: Collections

The Class M-1 steam turbines was a new technology the Chesapeake & Ohio envisioned to power its new "Chessie" streamliner. The locomotive proved unsuccessful.

This B&O Railroad Sign with Heritage Logos is a perfect sign for your train room walls or as a gift for any Baltimore & Ohio Railroad fan. This heritage sign with all the logos from the great railway is a metal sign that measures 10″ x 12″, with rounded corners and an 1/8″ hole punched in each corner. B&O Railroad Sign with Heritage Logos is made in the USA with .025 gauge aluminum. *Check out our other Railroad Signs The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting marks B&O, BO) was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from the city of Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of the National Road early in the century, wanted to continue to compete for trade with trans-Appalachian settlers with the newly constructed Erie Canal (which served New York City), another canal being proposed by Pennsylvania (which would have connected Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (which connected to the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., although it never reached Ohio), and the James River Canal, which directed traffic toward Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia. At first, the B&O was located entirely in the state of Maryland, its original line extending from the port of Baltimore west to Sandy Hook (opened in 1834). There it connected with Harper’s Ferry (by boat, then by the Wager Bridge) across the Potomac into Virginia, and also with the navigable Shenandoah River. Made in the USA !