The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad No. 4500 is a 2-8-2 light Mikado , built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1918. The USRA nationalised the nation's railroad system and these light Mikados were chos... (more)

B&O 6405 hands out with some EMD siblings at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum.

A Chessie System eastbound freight led by B&O 4140, an early GP40-2, built in October 1972, pauses at New Castle, PA behind a Safety Special led by C&O steam locomotive 614 (not shown). I visited ... (more)

Back in the early 1980s when I was at George Washington University, I discovered that on Sundays the parking lot for the GSA building on Virginia Avenue was left open and I could just park there a... (more)

On the Tracks. The EA for B&O, along with the E1 for Santa Fe and the E2 for UP, was part of EMC's first streamlined passenger diesels designed to operate as standalone units versus the pr... (more)

An eastbound CSX freight rolls through busy Dolton Junction at Dolton, Illinois, on March 19, 1988. The train is powered by a Baltimore & Ohio EMD GP40-2 that has recently renumbered into the CSX ... (more)

Rural Movements. On a Lerro Photography outing, the Potomac Eagle's B&O F7 moves through a farm on a very rainy afternoon.

Classic Lines. On a Lerro Photography outing, the Potomac Eagle's beautiful F7 poses beside a classic Buick Electra.

CSX was several months old when the former B&O Vincennes local "The Wabash Flash" was on the River Main to switch a customer further in town. It is crossing the former B&O line from Cin... (more)

Officer special on a warm spring day.

Beautifully-restored Baltimore & Ohio EA 51 on display at the B&O Railroad Museum. The 1937-built EMD looks as good as the day it rolled off the assembly line at LaGrange, IL.

Two models representing a 20-year difference in EMD "General Purpose" locomotive production are now stablemates at the B&O Railroad Museum. B&O 6944 is a GP30 built in November 1962. C... (more)

This beautifully restored unit unit handles the museum train. The MARC control cab still looks is on display.

Leading Lines. One of the attractions at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland is the ability to walk around the grounds of the Baltimore and Ohio's facility and look for creative ... (more)

B&O Westbound passing XN Siding on the Akron Mainline Subdivision.