The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O Railroad), founded in 1827 in Maryland, was the first major railroad in the United States to carry both passengers and freight using steam-powered locomotives.

BALTIMORE — A college lad spent his Christmas days off in the winter of 1937 working as extra help on the Camden Station platform near today’s Oriole Park at Camden Yards. What made an impression that ...

American history has always been made of the railway. It is a means of transportation and a source of economic growth, and of national unity. The railroads revolutionized the U.S.

On Feb.28, 1827, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the first U.S. railway chartered for the commercial transportation of freight and passengers. Investors hoped a railroad would allow Baltimore, ...

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THE FIRST steam-powered passenger and freight railroad in the United States was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which began operating with horse drawn cars in 1830, and with steam locomotives in 1831 ...

E. Ray Lichty, a retired CSX executive who began a 40-year career on the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, died of kidney failure Nov. 10 at Stella Maris Hospice. The Cockeysville resident was 88. Born ...