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Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
"In 1827, a group of Baltimore capitalists feared their city would be left out of the lucrative East Coast-to-Midwest trade that other eastern cities were developing; thus, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered. Political pressure kept the B&O out of Pennsylvania at first, and so track crews headed for what is now West Virginia, building mountainous routes with torturous grades to Wheeling and Parkersburg. Eventually the B&O financed and acquired...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Incorporated in 1827, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B & O) was one of America's first railroads, and Maryland was its heart and soul. The B & O's creation was a tangible symbol of the Industrial Revolution, representing commerce and progress to towns along its route. Its headquarters and operations, centered in Baltimore, provided years of economic growth for the port city. This book contains images of well-known stations in Maryland, including Ellicott...
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Publisher
Innovation Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Olive Dennis was young, girls were expected to be sewing, cooking, and cleaning. But Olive was busy imagining, designing, and building everything from a wooden dollhouse to a model streetcar with working parts. When she grew up, Olive continued to defy expectations, earning a civil engineering degree and becoming the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's first female engineer. Her genius for inventing improvements based on her keen observations of passengers'...
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Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science volume 3rd ser., 1
Publisher
N. Murray, publication agent, Johns Hopkins University
Pub. Date
1885
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Chartered in 1827 as the country's first railroad, the legendary Baltimore and Ohio played a unique role in the nation's great railroad drama and became the model for American railroading. John W. Garrett, who served as president of the B&O from 1858 to 1884, ranked among the great power brokers of the time. In this gripping and well-researched account, historian Kathleen Waters Sander tells the story of the B&O's beginning and its unprecedented...
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