Welcome to the Baltimore and Ohio Historical Society Web Site

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What We Do 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 History link on the right. 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 The Sentinel magazines. 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 existance. 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. Please see our Contacts button in the Navigation Bar above for a listing of Society contacts, including the Chairman, B&O Modeling Committee

See Special Announcements Upcoming Society Events Timonium Train Show Timonium (Baltimore), MD 2010 Society Annual Convention Baltimore, MD, Oct 21-24, 2010 2010 Convention Blog 2011 Western Mini-Con Ravenna, OH, May 14, 2011 Employee Records Possible Sources Railroad Sites Other Railroad Links History A Brief History of Our Society and the B&O Railroad

3rd Quarter Sentinel

Society 2011 Calendar

Society 2010 Convention Events

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As many of you have noticed, the most recent issue of The B&O Modeler was the January - February, 2010 issue. Several people have asked why no more issues have appeared and if this publication will continue. The answer is an all too familiar one in an all volunteer organization such as ours. For the past five years, Bruce Griffin has done the majority of the work of editing, assembling and producing The B&O Modeler. Certainly all of us owe Bruce a great deal of thanks for all the work he has done on The B&O Modeler for these past five years. However, Bruce can no longer take the time away from his family and his career that it takes to produce The B&O Modeler. With regrets, Bruce has stepped down as its editor. The B&O Modeler will continue only if another person is willing to step forward and assume Bruce's role as editor. Bruce will make himself available to help a new editor through any transition period and, as a starting point, there are additional unpublished issues of The B&O Modeler in varying degrees of completion. However, it will fall to a new editor to produce any future issues of The B&O Modeler. If there are any volunteers who would like to step forward and take over the production of The B&O Modeler, we would ask you to contact any of the Society officers using the contact information on this web site. See the Contacts link in the Navigation Bar at the top of this page

The 3rd Quarter, 2010 edition of The Sentinel has now been published. This edition is 36 pages and contains features on the "B&O's Camden Station Rises Again"; "Restoring the Thatcher Perkins" locomotive; "The 1892 Wreck at Woodstock, Virginia"; and a forward looking article on "What's Down the Track", notes from a meeting entitled “John H. White Conference on Railway Heritage” which was attended by a board member of the Society. Here are a few pages from this issue. The Company Store also has copies of many of the back issues available for sale to the public. These back issues contain a rich history of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and make a worthy edition to the library of anyone interested in America's First Railroad

The Society 2010 annual convention to be held this year in Baltimore, Maryland, is now available for review. Click on the above link, or see the Events area for further information

The Society 2011 color calendar is now available. See the Company Store link above for further details on the calendar

The Society now offers Student Memberships to those 17 years of age or younger. Just click the link, fill out an application and send it in with your payment to begin enjoying our merchandise discounts and other benefits of our Society

• Model- B&O N-37 Wartime Composite RTR Hopper, fully decorated, but without a road number. FREE MICROSCALE decal sheet is provided See stock # 31003 under (The) B&O Modeler link in our Company Store
• Book- "Baltimore and Ohio Facilities in Color, Volume 3: Western Region" by Bob Withers. Final book in trilogy. See stock # 10111 under Books link in our Company Store
• Reprint- "Operating Information, Data, Maps for Philadelphia to Grafton Coal Fields, Huntington to Pittsburgh - Officers Inspection trip, Oct, 1949." See stock # 72075 under Facilities link in our Company Store
• Reprint- "Operating Information, Data, Maps for West Virginia and Coal Fields - Officers Inspection trip, Oct, 1951." See stock # 72076 under Facilities link in our Company Store

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