B&O Railroad Museum

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum, just B & O Railroad Museum was opened on 4 July 1953 as the Baltimore & Ohio Transportation Museum. Located in Baltimore, Maryland Transportation Museum is an extensive collection of her most important railway museum in the United States.

Location to the railway museum is Mount Clare Station of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with his roundhouse. The station was built in the style of so-called Georgian 1851-1884 by Ephraim Francis Baldwin. At this point, built the B & O Railroad already in 1829 its railway workshop Mount Clare Shops, the oldest railroad manufacturing facility in the USA. After a partial roof collapse due to snow load after a snow storm on 17 February 2003, the building was renovated in 2005 to reopen. The complex includes a railway line of 1.6 kilometers in length, on which there are demonstrations every week in the summer months. 2002 had 160,000 visitors the museum.

Important Collectors' pieces

In the collection are 250 pieces rolling stock, there are 15,000 other collection pieces and 140 m³ archive material are kept. Children might also issued model systems are interesting. The originals include these vehicles:

  • Baltimore and Ohio # 25: The William Mason ( 4-4-0; Bj.1856 )
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Railway # 490, " Hudson " ( 4-6-4 )
  • Chesapeake and Ohio # 1604 " Allegheny " class ( 2-6-6-6 )
  • Pennsylvania Railroad # 4876, PRR Class GG1, the Federal Express Unglückslok
  • Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad ( " Ma & Pa " ) inspection car and Railway Post Office
  • B & O Royal Blue Line from the 1890s
  • Baltimore and Ohio # 3802, the All American Locomotive
  • Replicas of the B & O's 1831 Tom Thumb and the Lafayette
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