The Old B&O West End in the mid-1990's - Railroad History

This Throwback Thursday video looks back on the former Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's West End, the B&O's original mainline route from Baltimore to the Ohio Valley at Wheeling, West Virginia. The narrated slide show, with maps, contains scans of 35mm color slides I took with my colleague and friend, the late Harry Stegmaier, Jr. in 1995 and 1996 on day trips from our base in Frostburg, MD.

[@WestVirginiaRailfan]

These are just fantastic! THANK YOU for sharing!

[@Truex007]

Thanks for these. These slides will be great for my 1940s era B&O layout as reference.

[@historysablast]

You’re welcome.

[@bobprehoda8767]

Great job Vagel!! It's too bad that Don Cassler is gone; he would have loved this too!!

[@historysablast]

Thanks, Bob! I miss Don.

[@rayinpau.s.a.6351]

It used to be that a Railroad brought settler's into town , And more and more people came and formed Towns , and Cities . Now railroads have been disappearing . I never thought I would see the day Railroads would be obsolete !

[@historysablast]

They’re not obsolete, just less visible as locomotive & signaling technology makes the old service facilities & towers unnecessary. But, yes, it’s sad.

[@jwisner9569]

Good job

[@historysablast]

Thank you

[@jwisner9569]

I from Grafton that good job

[@historysablast]

Thanks.

[@Skywarriorguru]

Can we buy this video

[@historysablast]

Sorry, that’s not how UA-cam works.