One of the oldest locomotives preserved in America, the 1848-built "Memnon" is currently one of the key artifacts in the B&O's Civil War exhibit, "The War Came By Train." The locomotive, which wa... (more)

The B&O Memnon No. 57: The Memmon was built in 1848 by the New Castle Manufacturing Company in Delaware on a sub-contract from the Baldwin Locomotive Works, B&O #57 entered service in July... (more)

It doesn't get any more down to earth and soulful than this...B&O 57, the Memnon, poses during Civil War festivities held at the B&O Railroad Museum in August of 1996. Creeping up behind the might... (more)