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First Train into Wheeling

Description:

The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company was chartered in 1827 with building a railroad linking the Atlantic Ocean with the Ohio River as an alternative transportation route to the Erie Canal. This photograph shows a group of people celebrating as the first B. & O. locomotive reached Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the winter of 1852.

Creator:

The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company

Creation Date:

1852

Creation Place:

Wheeling, VA (Now WV)

Collection Title:

Railroad locomotives [graphic]

Collection Number:

SC 1226

Image Number:

TAH1102

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