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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia

By Bob , Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company;Withers

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN
9781439619377, 9780738552835, 0738552836, 1439619379
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
53 MB (55883890 bytes)
Series
Images of rail
Pages
illustrations, map\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Railroads--West Virginia--History;Railroads;Pictor

Description

In 1827, a group of Baltimore capitalists feared their city would be left out of the lucrative East Coast-to-Midwest trade that other eastern cities were developing; thus, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered. Political pressure kept the B & O out of Pennsylvania at first, and so track crews headed for what is now West Virginia, building mountainous routes with torturous grades to Wheeling and Parkersburg. Eventually the B & O financed and acquired a spiderweb of branch lines that covered much of the northern and central parts of the Mountain State. This book takes a close look at the line's locomotives, passenger and freight trains, structures, and, most importantly, its people who endeared their company to generations of travelers, shippers, and small Appalachian communities.

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