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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia
Contributor(s): Withers, Bob (Author)

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 ISBN: 1531633161     ISBN-13: 9781531633165
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2007
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BISAC Categories:
- Transportation | Railroads - History
- Transportation | Railroads - Pictorial
- History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv)
Dewey: 385.097
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" L (0.91 lbs) 130 pages
Themes:
- Geographic Orientation - West Virginia
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region - South
 
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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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