QUOTE: "Astra Domes" - General Motors "Astra Domes" - UP "Big Domes" - ATSF full domes "Big Domes" - Auto Train ex ATSF cars "Colorados" - Holland America Colorado Railcar "ultradomes" "Dome Cars" - Amtrak "Dome Cars" - N&W "Dome Cars" - Southern "Domeliners" - UP trains with dome cars(generic) "Domes" - Holland America (generic to differentiate from 'colorados') "Goldleaf Domes" - Rocky Mountaineer (honorary) "Great Domes" - GN "Hi-Level" or "High-Level" - ATSF "El Cap" lounges(honorary) "Hi-Level" or "High-Level" - Amtrak ex-ATSF lounges(honorary) "Lounge in the Sky" - NP rebuilt sleepers "Luxury Domes" - Transcisco "Maxi Domes" - Ferrovias Mexicanas ex US baggage cars cars "Maxi Domes" - Auto Train ex UP cars "Mini Domes" - Auto Train ex WP cars "Park" cars - CP Rail observation domes "Park" cars - VIA Rail observation domes "Planetarium" dome - IGN "Planetarium" domes - MP "Planetarium" dome - T&P "Pleasure Domes" - ATSF short domes "Princess Domes" - Amtrak ex Princess Tours cars "Princess Domes" - Princess Tours ex-MILW cars "Scenadomes" - Holland America Westours "Sceneramic Domes" - CN "Scenic Domes" - CP Rail (all) "Sightseer Lounges" - Amtrak Superliner lounges(honorary) "Skyline" cars - CP Rail 'midtrain' domes "Skyline" cars - VIA Rail 'midtrain' domes "Skytops" - Milwaukee Road observations(honorary) "Stairway to the Stars" - SP "Strata Domes" - B&O "Sun Lounges" - SAL(honorary) "Super Domes" - Milwaukee Road "Turbo Domes" - Amtrak for their UA Turbos "Turbo Domes" - PC/USDOT (honorary) "Turquoise Domes" - ATSF short domes(not official) "Ultra Domes" - Princess Tours ex SP bi-levels "Vista Domes" - Alaska RR "Vista Domes" - C&O "Vista Domes" - CB&Q (orginator of the term) "Vista Domes" - D&RGW "Vista Domes" - GN short domes "Vista Domes" - IC "Vista Domes" - NP short domes "Vista Domes" - SCL "Vista Domes" - SP&S "Vista Domes" - Wabash "Vista Domes" - WP
QUOTE: History of the B&O Railroad from: www:http://meyersdale.org/rr_history/borailhistory.html 1827 -- The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), our nation's first common carrier railroad, was chartered on Feb. 28 in Baltimore. 1828 -- Construction of the B&O begins July 4, 1828. 1833 -- President Andrew Jackson boards a B&O passenger coach at Relay, Maryland, in June and travels to Mt. Clare Depot in Baltimore, becoming the first U.S. President to ride a railroad. 1844 -- The B&O Railroad signs its first commercial contract in February to haul large quantities of coal from Western Maryland coalfields from Mt. Savage, Md., to Mt. Clare, Md. 1844 -- On May 24, Samuel F.B. Morse sends the first telegraph message from the basement of the Supreme Court Building on Washington, D.C. to the Mt. Clare Depot. The message "What God hath wrought" was transmitted across overhead wires following the B&O's Washington Branch. The message was received by Alfred Vail and Ezra Cornell in the little passenger depot at Mt. Clare. For the first time in the history of mankind, two persons communicated out of sight and 40 miles apart. 1902 -- President William McKinley passed through Meyersdale enroute to the Baer-McKinley wedding in September. A large number of people were at the station. 1948 -- The B&O's last steam locomotive #5594, Class T-3C rolls out of Mt. Clare's erecting shop in Baltimore on October 16. 1952 -- President Harry S. Truman stopped at the Meyersdale station on a "whistle stop" campaign on behalf of Democratic candidates running in the November election. More than 5,000 people were estimated to be on hand to see him. 1952 -- A steam engine and twin-engine diesel engine sideswiped in a violent cra***hat tore up track just east of the Keystone Crossing near Sand Patch November 12. There were no injuries. 1964 -- The C&O (Chesapeake & Ohio) and B&O jointly filed for permission to acquire control of the Western Maryland Railway with the Interstate Commerce Commission. 1973 -- Chessie System Inc. was formed February 26, and Chessie System Railroads was adopted as the new corporate identity for the C&O, B&O and WM railroads. 1980 -- CSX Corporation came into being Nov. 1, resulting from the merger of Chessie System Inc. and Seaboard Coast Line Industries Inc. 1983 -- Operation of the Western Maryland Railway was taken over by the B&O, and WM's ownership was assumed by the C&O. 1987 -- The B&O was merged into the C&O on April 30, and the C&O was merged into CSX Transportation Sept. 2.
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