Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum

Mount Clare Station

Museum workshop for passenger cars

The Ellicott City Station museum branch

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum , or B&O Railroad Museum for short , opened on July 4, 1953 as the Baltimore & Ohio Transportation Museum. Located in Baltimore , Maryland , the Transportation Museum is the most important railroad museum in the United States in terms of its extensive collection .

The railway museum is located at Mount Clare Station on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with its round shed . The station was built between 1851 and 1884 by Ephraim Francis Baldwin in the so-called Georgian style. At this point, the B&O Railroad built their Mount Clare Shops, the oldest railroad production facility in the United States, as early as 1829 . On September 15, 1961, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum received the status of a National Historic Landmark . After a partial roof collapse due to snow loads following a snow storm on February 17, 2003, the building was renovated and reopened in 2005. The facility includes a 1.6-kilometer-long railway line on which weekly demonstrations take place in the summer months. In 2002 the museum had 160,000 visitors.

Important collection items

The collection contains 250 pieces of rolling stock , there are 15,000 other items in the collection and 140 m³ of archive material is stored. The model layouts on display may also be of interest to children . These vehicles belong to the originals :

• 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 unlucky Federal Express locomotive
• 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

Web links

Commons : Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• B & O Railroad Museum website (English).
• B&O Railroad Museum: Ellicott City Station (engl.)
• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Mount Clare Passenger Car Shop , photos in the Historic American Buildings Survey (Engl.)
• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Mount Clare Station , photos in the Historic American Buildings Survey (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ United States National Park Service. Washington, DC. Historic American Engineering Record (HAER). "Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Mount Clare Shops." HAER No. MD-6A. 1984.
2. ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Maryland. National Park Service , accessed August 4, 2019.

Coordinates: 39 ° 17 ′ 7.4 ″  N , 76 ° 37 ′ 56.6 ″  W.