Portal:Trains/Selected picture/Week 31, 2010

A B&O passenger train in the tunnels under Baltimore
A B&O passenger train in the tunnels under Baltimore

Scientific American used this drawing in 1895 to show how Baltimore and Ohio Railroad used electric locomotives on trains through tunnels on the Baltimore Belt Line, built circa 1890. The line was the first mainline railroad electrification in the United States.

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