Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia - Hardcover

Withers, Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1531633161 ISBN 13: 9781531633165

Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions, 2007

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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 a spiderweb of branch lines that covered much of the northern and central parts of the Mountain State. This book takes a close look at the line's locomotives, passenger and freight trains,
structures, and, most importantly, its people who endeared their company to generations of travelers, shippers, and small Appalachian communities.

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• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1531633161
• ISBN 13: 9781531633165
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 130