The B & O Railroad Museum in Baltimore
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- We are visiting the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, America's oldest railroad museum with history back to the early 1800's. Near the nation's capitol of Washington DC, we also visit some of the monuments and look in on our Senator, Mike Lee.
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Well, guys, you went to my birth place. Baltimore! Great vid! Thanks... I need to return to the Eastern Seaboard & Maryland's Eastern Shore... thanks for allowing me to travel vicariously through your eyes. BTW, since I was a child I saw that great Museum roundhouse go through several changes, add-ons & iterations. I wish the Pennsy and the NY Central collected and kept more of their locomotives in some kind of foundation/museum or storage facility. Thanks again, folks!
We missed most of the museum. We did get to see the best part, the old roundhouse. But we need to get back. So much more to see around the area.
I visited this museum back in 1992 with my parents after the Garden Railway Convention had concluded that year in Washington. What we found neatest was seeing an SW1 switcher moving around: Pere Marquette #11. The Pere Marquette ran through this part of Michigan before being absorbed into the C&O. Amtrak uses the Pere Marquette label for its daily Grand Rapids to Chicago service (trains 372 and 371)
On that same tirp, also went up to Straasburg, Pennsylvania and visited the Pennsylvania RR Museum where I saw my first GG1 close up. And of course the TCA Museum and Straasburg Railiway. Plus riding the Gerrysburg Railroad. What a train themed vacation that was!
*Thanks for a briefing on the Baltimore & Ohio's many experiments.* Vertical boilers were easy enough for early designs and reappeared in the 1880's with Ephraim Shay's experimental geared locomotives. The 0-8-0 Camel was a fail, but it led to the 4-4-0 and 2-6-0 Norris and Baldwin designs that handled the heavy traffic until loads forced the development of the 4-6-0 and 2-8-0. Poor-quality coal was an impetus behind the Wooten-boilered 4-6-0 and 4-8-0 camelbacks, but really needed the sort of deep fireboxes that articulated trailing trucks could support.
I love your content, I love how you just visit every railway museum you two can find and make a good quality video out of it! Please continue to upload more museum videos, they are my favorite kind of videos you make :)
Fun places to go too!!!!!
Thank you very much for solving a puzzling mystery for me. A couple of months back I picked up a veteran model locomotive - hand built Japanese brass, of an old, old ten wheeler, with nothing to identify it. I'd never seen a locomotive photo like it, but knew it was a very old prototype. Your photo of No 9, sitting outside the roundhouse, is the very engine, cap stack and all. So I now know what road it belonged to. All I have to do now it get it running again.
PS The 'camel' engines were intended to burn coal rather than the wood which was more usual in those days, and needed a long grate - hence the cab atop the boiler. Lafayette, which is a Norris engine (we had some in England, and they were very popular in central Europe too) has a perfectly normal horizontal boiler. What you thought was a vertical boiler in in fact the firebox, a type known as a 'haystack' or 'haycock' firebox, which was obsolete by about 1860. Thanks again.
Love the B&O. Great video thanks.
Great museum too!
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I'm going to Washington D.C, the B&O railroad museum, and the Western Maryland scenic railroad on the spring of 2019 on April, which is going to be next month.
Hello, my friends, I also meant to tell you that I grew up between 1954 & 1958 near Pratt & Lombard Streets in Baltimore near the B & O Roundhouse Museum... I was born in B'more as my dad went to Johns Hopkins for his poli sci doctorate. I am very glad you went there but why didn't you credit Baltimore with the museum? Is there one in DC as well that I never knew about? Dang. I guess so. You should see the Roundhouse in B'more. It's gorgeous! Please take me (us) there so I can relive some great childhood memories. HUZZAHS, Arthur (Ngai O) best wishes...
really enjoy the quick preview of interesting sites while im traveling. Especially out west where I am not so familiar with the history. Keep screwing around!
I went to the Baltimore and Ohio and in the DC History Museum there’s a couple trains
if you guys come east again, you should go visit the Pennsylvania state museum and ride the strasburg railroad
The atlantic is not a replica, its the origional engine from the 1830's.
Well actualy its the andrew jackson, it was rebuilt to look like the atlantic
Photo at 2:43 is of the roundhouse at Martinsburg, wv mostly still there by the way and currently the city is making efforts to restore it
Wow. Love to see that. Want to get “back east” at some point soon
here is someones photos of it, its more or less the same today externally
czcams.com/video/qfUNULDszt4/video.html
I live near baltimore so i see the engines alot
We just want to get BACK. We missed most of it. We were there on a film shoot and snuck in a quick lunch trip over there. WOW!!!!!!!
Love this video!!
Great information and great production.
Heading to B&O RR Museum this Fall myself.
Get there early! AVOID THOMAS DAY!!! Stay till they kick you out. WOW!!
if you ever make it back to maryland you should come ride the walkersville southern near fredrick md. we regularly run an emd model 40 and all of our coaches are 20s to 30s era long island ping pong cars. we would love to see you there and youd be more than welcome to ride in the cab.
deppending on the engineer anyway but we have very very few engineers that would not let you ride in the cab.
+rebelbull14 Planning on it, perhaps this summer. Saw so little last summer, working on another film, only had a few hours of our own. LOVE TO SEE WALKERSVILLE.
+Toy Man Television wonderful. i hope im working when you show up id love to meet you.
The W&SRR has an EMC/EMD model-40 !??!..... There were not very many of them made... only 11 of them if I remember correctly, unfortunately. I will have to make a trip out there this summer (2019) just to see the "little" EMD-40.... does it still retain the twin 6-71 Detroit Diesels... or should say GM Diesel Power on the block casting IF there are original (pre -1965 engines). The Only other one that "I" know of that is still around is at the Travel Town Museum in Los Angeles.... would be Great if you guys could get a hold of that one as well. I know that only Three (3) were scrapped (sadly), leaving eight (8) to still be around.... will have to find them.
I believe the Original dispersion was that, Electro-Motive Corporation/EMD Plant #2 got 1 unit, the Defense Plant Corporation got 4 units, the US Army got 3 units, the Navy took 2 units, and General Motors Cleveland Diesel Division - 1 unit. The Original Demonstrator - No.1134 which was built by EMC (Electro-Motive Corporation - Pre/EMD) was last known to be up in Stellarton, Nova Scotia - Canada, of all places... at the Nova Scotia Museum of Industry. It was donated in Operating condition after being operated until 1995. It has been restored - but like the other locomotives at that Museum of Industry - it sits Outside!! Perhaps you folks at the Walkersville Southern could bring it back to the US.(??). : )
There are three stations on the DC/New York, NY corridor that I just love... Union in DC, Baltimore, of course (both still there, thank God) where dad took my brother David & me down to trackside hand in hand with a great lecture on steam pressure, tractive force & electricity field mechanics. (Dad, while working on his degrees was a gandy-dancer for Pennsy & B&O and he knew a lot. LOL) And of course, I absolutely ADORED Pennsy Station in NYC. It was one of the greatest edifices we've EVER constructed here in the US. I still like Grand Central, but PENNSY utterly fired the imagination and ignited dreams in the young of greatness... to be achieved. I know as I still have relatives in NYC who STILL bemoan the building of Madison Square garden over the old subterranean tracks. Sanford White's (?) achievement should never have been leveled. London's Victoria station, I fervently believe, is still there. You and Karyn (sp?) are tremendously enjoyable. Thanx... Arthur PS/young man, you're a greater voice-over than I've ever been. For real. Cogently folksy, knowledgeable without being pedagogical & to the point is nice to see. Yeah, there's a little politics once in a while, but... fine... LOL LOL... it's alright!
I had the opportunity to see the underground at pen station. Just tragic that it was torn down. Thank goodness there’s so many of the great train stations have been preserved.
Great video...inspiring tour and great museum! There used to be one in Lancaster county, PA...more modern engines. And the Franklin Institute has a huge steam locomotive on display in Philadelphia. Museums are always a great bet! Happy Father's Day! :) Jack
Jack R Thanks! So many great museums in the DC area and we missed most of them. Little time for that. So we need to get back out there!
Jack R you mean the Lancaster railroad museum is Strasburg?
On a recent trip to Washington, D C, I made it a point to stay in Baltimore to visit the museum. On the morning of, I called to confirm the hrs. At no time in the recording was it mentioned that the museum would be closed until Friday(to prepare for the polar express). After vehemently voicing my displeasure, I was offered passes, but our trip was ending on Thursday. To the powers that be, this is no way to run a tourist attraction. This gave Baltimore a black eye, to me it was a slap in the face. I will spend my travel dollars elsewhere
I hear you. We have run into this sort of thing all the time. In their defense many of these museums are run mostly by volunteers. Not an excuse but a reason why things go wrong so often. We went looking for one attraction and could not find it. Google took us to a location but all that was there was a real estate company. So after about an hour we left. Later we found out that the real estate company was the right place. Or should I say behind the real estate company. But the only sign is also behind the real estate company and it’s facing a tree. You can only see the sign by walking up a path. Sort of pointless sign. Something the size of the B and O museum should get it right. But sadly things like this happen. While we were there they had a “day out with Thomas” banner hanging on Lincoln’s funeral train. I pointed out the total inappropriateness of that. No matter. The key is really good management of staff and volunteers. These museums and even little displays behind a real estate company are a national treasure. They need to be run like that.
My personal favorite is Thatcher Perkins, in fact I think someone should use it in a movie.
Nathan Deal It's great. I love engines in that era
They did use it in movies, the b&o railroad museums youtube channel will tell you about it.
you can tell the John Hancock is a reproduction because it has a three chime whistle, three chimes weren’t invented until the 1870’s
Most of these are reproduced. But most still older than most locomotives because they were rebuilt so long ago.
Its real, the b&o added the three chime whistle for their 1927 fair of the iron horse.
COOL! Hard to tell a 100 year old reproduction from a 200 year old original.
Paul Mishler o ok
SOOOoooo! Government huh?! Yeah, well you learned. Take head, find firm wall, thrust head into wall-repeat until either senseless of out cold or coma occurs. No, but seriously folks. how 'bout them trains?! Way cool, as always. There you have it, another Brilliant Toy Man Television adventure. See ya next week.
Jeanne Uzar Next week we are back on a plane. Didn't see that coming! But we just went for a ride on a tri motor!
While you are on the East Coast you should visit the ET&WNC at Doe River Gorge in Hampton TN, www.Doerivergorge.com
I'm trying to get there on my work travels. BTW, your wife is so pleasant and may I add patient with you!! lol
North Central Lines On30 Oh gee wait till you tomorrows show! But at least she had fun!
Jefferson, Tx train museum with Matthew and Daddy talk about a haunted little abandoned town. Go here if you are ever in the south. czcams.com/video/4wMogt0ykXc/video.html
I live in Maryland
I really want to get back there to see some more trains. We had plans with this miserable pandemic has changed them.
you should go and see the Maryland Midland Railroad
The railroad collection in the museum was interesting …. You in an air plain was not …
I visited this museum around 1998. Probably the best collection of steam locomotives I’ve experienced. Really loved the roundhouse and the Allegheny, I remembered their collection being more extensive than you have shown. too bad the museum is in such a shit neighborhood.
Not so bad. Really shit as you say but does not effect the museum it seems. We only had a short time there. Could have spent the whole day and still missed some stuff
Greeeeeen Jello! Yummy! The official desert of the state of Utah!
Sounds like your senator is the chief of screwing around and in a town that is notorious for screwing around. Chances are Mike Lee was in Salt Lake City screwing around while y'all were in D. C. screwing around. I noticed that this was recorded in 2015 did you get to see Obama screwing around? Its been said that he's the best at screwing around. I'm guessing you didn't because he was perpetually on vacation. It seemed every time you turned around he was either in Hawaii or Martha's Vineyard. I guess if you were going to screw around they are couple of good places to do that. I on the other hand would want to expand my horizons, plus I've never met a railroad locomotive that I didn't stop for. That is as long as it was on display for all to see and that were not, but I never broke the law as a trespasser. Nice video as always and I've give it a thumbs up. Thank you for keeping politics to the minimum. So often creators use this medium for a spring board on to a political agenda. I don't know about you , but I'm sort of tired of politics. I'm to a point in life where I'm too old for this and being filled with hate is just no way to live because we only here for a short amount of time so why spend it full of negativity when frankly it just isn't worth it. Thanks for all you do!
I think we need to stop putting these in museums and put these puppies back on the rails
Yaboi Sugarnips it would be nice but it would cost alot, and these engines are way slower than todays engines.
844#1Fan yes but special runs or on property like amusement parks like Dollywood they have 2 real steam locomotives from ww2