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Welcome to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Historical Society

The Society is dedicated to the preservation of and education about the history of America’s first Common Carrier Railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio. The Society has members all over the world across a variety of railroad interests from modeling to research to preservation

The Society maintains a large archive of documentation from the Office of the Vice President of Operations and Engineering from the B&O Railroad. We are also the custodians of numerous photographs and other items of research. We are constantly publishing our findings through our Company Store. Our Archives area is open one weekend a month to facilitate members who which to pursue their B&O research efforts. The Society also publishes a quarterly journal, The Sentinel and a bi-monthly on-line magazine, The B&O Modeler. Each year, the Society also holds a major conference and two mini-conferences

The B&O Railroad Historical Society is always welcoming new members. We have two levels of individual membership—Regular and Sustaining. Regular members get a year of our quarterly journal, The Sentinel. Sustaining members get a year of our journal and our Color Calendar. All levels of individual members enjoy discounts with our Company Store and the ability to attend our mini-conferences and our annual Convention. Become a member or check out the Membership link on the left for more information. There is also a web based membership application available

We invite you to read about our Society history as well as a brief history of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Read about our history and a brief history of the B&O or investigate the Our Society link on the left. We would also suggest that you look at the wealth of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad historical information that is available through the many articles written for our quarterly magazine, The Sentinel. These magazines contain a wealth of information about the B&O and the railroad's early beginnings. The Company Store still has a few back issues available for sale to the public, some going back to 1990. There are also two CD's available for sale that contain copies of virtually every Sentinel magazine printed since inception of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Historical Society

The Society is also active in the development of new models that accurately represent an item of equipment that ran on the B&O during its existence. If anyone, whether it be a commercial entity or an individual with an idea that has a clear path to production, with recommended vendor, of a B&O product, please contact our Chairman, B&O Modeling Committee. You could also contact our VP/Finance who will coordinate with the B&O Modeling Committee. Please see our Contacts button in the Navigation Bar above for a listing of Society contacts, including the Chairman, B&O Modeling Committee as well as the VP/Finance

Here are some B&O Railroad Historical Society items of note. Check 'em out!

For those who wish to send in address changes via email instead of by Postal mail, a special address change email address has been set up in the Contacts area of this web site. Please go to our Contacts link above or just click Email address changeshere to get directly to our email form. Members may also submit address changes by USPS as before.

The latest version of The B&O Modeler is now available for download through the Modeler Mag link. This November/December 2010 edition has features on Cattle Car to Caboose, B&O Class I-13 Kitbash and Buiolding the Point of Rocks Tool House. This edition is cataloged as November/December 2010 but due to some publishing delays, it is just now getting posted. The edition is well worth the wait.

The 2nd Quarter of The Sentinel in electronic form is now available for download. Proceed here to download your copy. As background. as a convenience to members who have asked for a faster delivery or would like to begin maintaining their magazines in electronic format on their computer or tablet, The Sentinel magazine was made available in an electronic format. If you would like to consider the eSentinel instead of receiving a hard copy through the mail, check out the SENTINEL link in the Navigation Bar at the top of this page for details, or click here for further information on the eSentinel.

Members who have elected to receive a mailed, hard copy of the magazine, should receive their copy within the next 30 days depending upon postal service to your area.

The Ali Ghan Shrine Railroad located in Cumberland, Maryland, operates a working quarter mile 3-foot gauge railroad that pulls passengers around a picnic area. The railroad started in 1969 with a dream from a B&O official in the Cumberland area. Through his dream and work with other railroad employees in 1969 and 1979, the small railroad became a reality. To help generate additional revenue to support railroad operations, we have been advised that the organization has worked out an agreement with railroad artist Charles Amos to paint two pictures of two steam engines sitting on respective turntables. The first painting is of B&O # 4441, a Mikado. The artist has called this painting B&O Work Horse B&O Shops Cumberland MD; the second is of Western Maryland # 1407, a Potomac (4-8-4 type). The artist has called this painting Western Maryland Thorough-Bred Maryland Junction, WV. Both paintings have a diesel locomotive in the roundhouse. The President of the Ali Ghan railroad has sent us photographs of the two paintings, which are displayed here: B&O 4441 and Western Maryland 1407. We have been advised that there will be 350 prints made of each painting. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Historical Society has no interest in this project, nor are we to receive any benefit from the sale of any products. We are providing this for the information of any of our members or other viewers who may be interested in the paintings. Interested parties should contact the President of the Ali Ghan Shrine Railroad directly at: Hartman_h@atlanticbb.net, or you may write directly to the Ali Ghan Shrine Railroad Unit, P.O. Box 142, Ridgeley, WV 26753. More information about the railroad can be found on their Facebook page. Search for Ali Ghan Railroad Unit. We have also been provided a copy of their order information document.

Western Mini-Con Flyer. A flyer for the Western Mini-Con is now available for those of you who may be interested in attending this May 2012 event in Lexington, Ohio.

The B&O Railroad Historical Society is proud to announce that we have now expanded access to our archival collections. We have put the first of our archival catalogs on-line. This catalog provides a listing of all scanned large format documents available currently from the society archives. We have hard-copies available for $5 a sheet with $6 shipping and handling. Please allow for 4 to 6 weeks for your order to be fulfilled. As more documents are scanned our list of available documents will continue to grow. To get to our catalog, Archives area, order forms, and other information about what we have to offer, please click on our Archives link in the Navigation Bar at the top of this page.

New Items Just Listed For Sale or great price reductions on some of our older merchandise. See our Company Store link in the Navigation Bar at the top of this page for a more extensive listing of recently added items

  • Book-"Ghost Rails VIII: The Northern Sub", by Wayne Cole. A mile-by-mile history of 175 miles of railroad from Callery Junction near Mars, Pa. to Foxburg and Mt Jewett and the Kinzua Bridge, including the B&O's P&W and many connections. This is primarily B&O and B&O related; 312 pages; more than 600 B/W photos, plus some color. See Stock number 10127 in the Books section of the Company Store

B&O Photos and Society Projects

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2nd Quarter 2012 The Sentinel Magazine 		Photo
From B&ORRHS 2012 Calendar 		Photo
From B&ORRHS 2012 Calendar 		Photo
Harpers Ferry Tunnel 1970 		Photo
B&O Modeler November/December 2010

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