Author: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Briefs, Records, and Miscellaneous Documents Concerning the Railroad
Author: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Author: Dave Oroszi
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 9780760329290
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
As Americas first common-carrier railroad--a railroad mandated to operate for the 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 offer scheduled passenger service, first to experiment with steam power, and the first air-conditioned passenger cars, lightweight streamliners, high-speed passenger diesels, and "piggyback" freight services--to name just a few. In this expanded hardcover reissue of the popular 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 collection of more than 150 photos and illustrations, the book gives a colorful account of the evolution of one of the 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 in 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.
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 9780760329290
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
As Americas first common-carrier railroad--a railroad mandated to operate for the 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 offer scheduled passenger service, first to experiment with steam power, and the first air-conditioned passenger cars, lightweight streamliners, high-speed passenger diesels, and "piggyback" freight services--to name just a few. In this expanded hardcover reissue of the popular 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 collection of more than 150 photos and illustrations, the book gives a colorful account of the evolution of one of the 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 in 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.
Editorials on the Centenary of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Author: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Central Committee on Public Relations
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Steam City
Author: David Schley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022672039X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a “rail-road” that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed this company the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), and they conceived of it as a public undertaking—an urban improvement, albeit one that would stretch hundreds of miles beyond the city limits. Steam City tells the story of corporate capitalism starting from the street and moving outward, looking at how the rise of the railroad altered the fabric of everyday life in the United States. The B&O’s founders believed that their new line would remap American economic geography, but no one imagined that the railroad would also dramatically reshape the spaces of its terminal city. As railroad executives wrangled with city officials over their use of urban space, they formulated new ideas about the boundaries between public good and private profit. Ultimately, they reinvented the B&O as a private enterprise, unmoored to its home city. This bold reconception had implications not only for the people of Baltimore, but for the railroad industry as a whole. As David Schley shows here, privatizing the B&O helped set the stage for the rise of the corporation as a major force in the post-Civil War economy. ?Steam City examines how the birth and spread of the American railroad—which brought rapid communications, fossil fuels, and new modes of corporate organization to the city—changed how people worked, where they lived, even how they crossed the street. As Schley makes clear, we still live with the consequences of this spatial and economic order today.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022672039X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a “rail-road” that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed this company the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), and they conceived of it as a public undertaking—an urban improvement, albeit one that would stretch hundreds of miles beyond the city limits. Steam City tells the story of corporate capitalism starting from the street and moving outward, looking at how the rise of the railroad altered the fabric of everyday life in the United States. The B&O’s founders believed that their new line would remap American economic geography, but no one imagined that the railroad would also dramatically reshape the spaces of its terminal city. As railroad executives wrangled with city officials over their use of urban space, they formulated new ideas about the boundaries between public good and private profit. Ultimately, they reinvented the B&O as a private enterprise, unmoored to its home city. This bold reconception had implications not only for the people of Baltimore, but for the railroad industry as a whole. As David Schley shows here, privatizing the B&O helped set the stage for the rise of the corporation as a major force in the post-Civil War economy. ?Steam City examines how the birth and spread of the American railroad—which brought rapid communications, fossil fuels, and new modes of corporate organization to the city—changed how people worked, where they lived, even how they crossed the street. As Schley makes clear, we still live with the consequences of this spatial and economic order today.
The Great Road
Author: James D. Dilts
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804726290
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad contributes not only to the railway history but to the history of the development of the United States in the 19th century. 80 illustrations.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804726290
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad contributes not only to the railway history but to the history of the development of the United States in the 19th century. 80 illustrations.
John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Author: Kathleen Waters Sander
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421422204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is a vivid account of Garrett's twenty-six-year reign.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421422204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is a vivid account of Garrett's twenty-six-year reign.
Agreement
Author: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 11
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 11
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Report of the Committee of Finance of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Author: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Committee on Finance
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Safety and Sanitation Rules of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Including the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad Co., Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway Co., and New York Terminal Lines for the Government of Employees. (Effective September 1st, 1916.)
Author: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Miscellaneous Documents of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and Subsidiary Companies
Author: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
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Languages : en
Pages : 1236
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