It is now 2021 and the B&O station and hotel have seen better days. Built in the early 1900’s, the hotel was used by train crews to take rest before coming back to take another train. Amtrak onc... (more)

A few weeks ago, Mitch Goldman posted a photo of the restored Baltimore & Ohio station in Oakland, Maryland. Coincidentally,... (more)

Another from the archives -

Back in the day, when you could still find the B&O running EMD F units daily, in West Virginia, there was a guy who was working on a technique called the " more)

A B&O F unit leads a freight over the Sycamore trestle in Old Fields, WV, on the South Branch. Captured during a Lerro Productions photo charter (yeah, you heard right, Lerro Productions ran a more)

Baltimore & Ohio F7, No. 722, former Bessemer & Lake Erie 722, leads a small freight over the trestle on the South Branch at Sycamore, WV. The locomotive was built in 1952 and spent its life haul... (more)

Digging way back into the archives here...

Relegated to branch line freight, a B&O F7 leads a small mixed consist through the rurals of Romney, WV, along the South Branch. Actually, thi... (more)

Deckers Creek Bridge

Located on the "Caperton Trail" in Morgantown, WV, this is an historic 19th century Warren through truss bridge originally built for the Fairmont, Morgantown & Pittsb... (more)

Morgantown "Union Station" - circa 2020

This station, or what is left of it, was built before the turn of the 20th century, though I can not find any information of its actual constru... (more)

B&O Railroad's Mountain Lake Park Station

Mountain Lake Park was established in 1881 as a 'Chautauqua', the Victorian concept for a summer camp retreat to refresh the body, mind and spiri... (more)

Baltimore & Ohio 2-8-0 No. 476?

Former Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern Railroad 2-8-0 No. 40, better known as Gettys... (more)

The historic Oakland Maryland B&O depot

Built in 1884 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, it sat across the tracks and a meadow from the Railroad's Oakland Hotel, which opened in 1876, to... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

Southbound (Timetable East) Canton Turn Passing the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Facility in Akron.

On the weekend of September 24-5, 1983, two excursions were run on the B&O out of Baltimore. The grapevine said that the power was to be the former Clinchfield F-units, freshly painted in Seaboard... (more)

A trio of EMD four-axles leads a westbound freight on the B&OCT through Dolton. Notice the ATSF-style first digit stenciled on the lead locomotive. Tom Golden photo.