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B&O Railroad Museum Part 2 5/16/2007

After the tour of the Mt Clare Roundhouse I next visited the Alex, Brown & Sons Foundation Exhibition Hall.

British and American Pioneers.

American Refinements.

1840-1880.

Specialized Locomotives.

The Final Years of Steam Locomotives 1925-1953.

Diesel Electric Locomotives.

Main Line Electrics Railway.

Railroad Freight Cars.

Passenger Cars.

Electric Motive 950. I then walked into the next exhibit "Dinner in the Diner".

Baltimore and Ohio China 1875-1972.

An Air of Elegance.

Dining Car Setup.

B&O Blue A Centennial of Heritage. I walked into the next room with an exhibit called "About Time". These pictures tell all about it.

A very interesting exhibit "About Time". In the next room was the Mt Claire Station Living History Center.

Once I was done I walked into the Mt Clare Roundhouse once more.

There I was told that the B&O Excursion Train had just been called for its 11:30 AM Departure. I walked out to wait to board that train.

They boarded all of the passengers into just the MARC Coach 144. The trip would be over the first 1.25 mile of railroad track built in the United States in 1830. The train departed at 11:30 AM with the B&O Railroad Museum 1200 pushing the five car train west.

They took a picture of me on the first mile of track built in the United States.

The train ran by the old Car Shop with its overhead crane still intact.

The train ran by the former B&O mainline curving off towards downtown Baltimore. We then reached our furthest point and a minute later the B&O Museum 1200 started pulling us back to the B&O Railroad Museum.

We rolled by a Penn Central GG-1 4876 and the Restoration and Diesel Shop.

Passenger car behind fences at the Restoration Shop.

Views of Baltimore as we returned to the grounds of the B&O Railroad Museum. I thanked the crew for a unique trip over the first mile of railroad built in the United States in 1830.

On the way back to the parking lot, I stopped for one last picture of the Garden Railroad. With that picture, I walked back through the Museum and out the front door catching Amy as she was returning from lunch. I thanked her for a great visit to this fantastic museum. There was still something I wanted to photograph behind the Car Shop so I drove to South Arlington Ave for my last pictures here.

The B&O Railroad Museum Excursion Train.

Line up in front of the Car Shop.

The line up in front of the Car Shop was Baltimore and Ohio 7402 and a B&O GP-30.

I have completed my coverage of the B&O Railroad Museum. Next it is off to Elkins but had one stop to make on the way there.