At this time of crisis in our Nation's commuter railroads, a new threat to the continued operations of the New York Central has appeared in the form of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad's proposal for control of the Baltimore & Ohio railroads.

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announced yesterday it would reduce the total amount of its payroll by 10 per cent through salary cuts and lay-offs effective at 12:01 A.M. next Saturday.

-- New York Central Railroad president Alfred E. Perlman said Tuesday his line would face the threat of bankruptcy if the Chesapeake & Ohio and Baltimore & Ohio Railroads merge.

Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., testified the B & O was in its worst financial condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

`` The financial situation of the Baltimore & Ohio, has become precarious -- much worse than at any time since the depression of the 1930s '', he told the hearing.

* Atlantic ( locomotive ), name of an early steam-powered locomotive of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with a 0-4-0 wheel arrangement

* 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

* 1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in US railroading.

* 1827 – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

* 1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York, New York, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

* 1877 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 begins in Martinsburg, West Virginia, US, when Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers have their wages cut for the second time in a year.

* 1877 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.

* 1830 – The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, Maryland and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.

Congress appropriated $ 30, 000 in 1843 for construction of an experimental telegraph line between Washington, D. C., and Baltimore along the right-of-way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

* July 16 – Great railroad strike of 1877: Riots by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad railroad workers in Baltimore, Maryland lead to a sympathy strike and rioting in Pittsburgh, and a full-scale worker's rebellion in St. Louis, briefly establishing a Communist government before U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in the armed forces.

* February 28, 1827 – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

* February 28 – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

His father was a signalman for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and his mother a homemaker.

At that time this fortune, generated primarily from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was the largest philanthropic gift in the history of the United States.

When a severe hurricane in 1786 opened up the Locust Point Channel to Baltimore and made Havre de Grace an accessible, deep-water port, Charlestown ’ s prosperity began to falter.

It was positioned on the Locust Point peninsula which juts into the opening of Baltimore Harbor, and was constructed in the form of a five-pointed star surrounded by a dry moat — a deep, broad trench.

While Baltimore has been a major U. S. seaport since the 18th century, the historically shallow water of the Inner Harbor ( prior to manipulation through dredging ) was not conducive to large ships or heavy industry, most of which was concentrated in Locust Point, Fell's Point, and Canton.

Locust Point is a peninsular neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland.

Located in South Baltimore, the neighborhood is entirely surrounded by the Locust Point Industrial Area ; the traditional boundaries are Lawrence street to the west and the Patapsco River to the north, south, and east.

Locust Point is located in Baltimore City's 11th District, with the current district representative Bill Cole.

Locust Point is home to the Baltimore Museum of Industry, Fort McHenry and Latrobe Park.

Also located in Locust Point are the Locust Point Recreation Center, a Baltimore Water Taxi stop, South Locust Point Cruise Terminal, SoBo Doggie Daycare and Spa and Francis Scott Key Elementary and Middle Grades School.

The tunnel, as completed, extends from the Locust Point peninsula, passes south of Fort McHenry under the harbor navigational channel, and rises to surface grade in the Canton industrial area of Southeast Baltimore.

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* Locust Point, Baltimore, Maryland, a neighborhood

At the Baltimore end, the line ended in the Canton neighborhood, with a car ferry across the Patapsco River to Locust Point.

Some were lightly armed in the War of 1812, sailing under Letters of Marque and Reprisal, when the type — exemplified by Chasseur, launched at Fells Point, Baltimore in 1814 became known for her incredible speed ; the deep draft enabled the Baltimore clipper to sail close to the wind.

Before entering West Point, Poe moved back to Baltimore for a time, to stay with his widowed aunt Maria Clemm, her daughter, Virginia Eliza Clemm ( Poe's first cousin ), his brother Henry, and his invalid grandmother Elizabeth Cairnes Poe.

The bar where legend says Poe was last seen drinking before his death still stands in Fells Point in Baltimore, Maryland.

Also in 1892, Douglass constructed rental housing for blacks, now known as Douglass Place, in the Fells Point area of Baltimore.

* 1814 – Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.

In the 1632 Charter of Maryland, King Charles I of England granted " all that Part of the Peninsula, or Chersonese, lying in the Parts of America, between the Ocean on the East and the Bay of Chesapeake on the West, divided from the Residue thereof by a Right Line drawn from the Promontory, or Head-Land, called Watkin's Point, situate upon the Bay aforesaid, near the river Wigloo, on the West, unto the main Ocean on the East ; and between that Boundary on the South, unto that Part of the Bay of Delaware on the North, which lieth under the Fortieth Degree of North Latitude from the Equinoctial, where New England is terminated " to Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore as the colony of Maryland.

Later surveys authorized by Baltimore on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake indicated that the southern boundary would continue across the peninsula at the mouth of the Pocomoke River marked on the north shore by a rock outcropping labelled as " Watkins ' Point ".

Some of those members are University of North Carolina at Asheville ( 1984-present ), Davidson College ( 1990-1992 ), Liberty University ( 1991-present ), University of Maryland, Baltimore County ( 1992-1998 ), University of North Carolina at Greensboro ( 1992-1997 ), Towson University ( 1992-1995 ), Elon University ( 1999-2003 ), High Point University ( 1999-present ) and Birmingham – Southern College ( 2000-2007 ).

When asked by the Baltimore and Sparrows Point Railroad for a name of a depot for the foundry, which was on their rail line, McShane wrote Dundalk, after the town of his birth, Dundalk, Ireland.

Public transportation between Sparrows Point, Dundalk and Baltimore City was operated by the United Railways and Electric Company's ( later the Baltimore Transit Company ) # 26 streetcar line which ran down the middle of Dundalk Avenue until August 1958.

For primary and secondary education Dundalk is served by the Baltimore County Public Schools system, with Dundalk High School, Patapsco High School, and Sparrows Point High School being the major high schools to serve the area.

Young George attended the Mount Hope Institution in Baltimore and entered the United States Military Academy ( West Point ) in 1831, chosen primarily for financial reasons.

The narrow strip of available land along the Potomac River from Point of Rocks to Harpers Ferry caused a legal battle between the C & O Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( B & O ) in 1828 as both sought to exclude the other from its use.

As the 60's progressed, he recorded some twenty additional albums as a leader, and continued to record as a sideman on the albums of other artists, including Wayne Shorter's Night Dreamer ; Stanley Turrentine's Mr. Natural ; Freddie Hubbard's The Night of the Cookers ; Hank Mobley's Dippin ', A Caddy for Daddy, A Slice of the Top, Straight No Filter ; Jackie McLean's Jackknife and Consequence ; Joe Henderson's Mode for Joe ; McCoy Tyner's Tender Moments ; Lonnie Smith's Think and Turning Point ; Elvin Jones ' The Prime Element ; Jack Wilson's Easterly Winds ; Reuben Wilson's Love Bug ; Larry Young's Mother Ship ; Lee Morgan and Clifford Jordan Live in Baltimore 1968 ; Andrew Hill's Grass Roots ; as well as on several albums with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

* Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine, East Fort Avenue at Whetstone Point, Baltimore, Independent City, MD at the Historic American Buildings Survey ( HABS )

* Silo Point, was reconstructed into a condominium located in Baltimore, Maryland.

A corps feasibility study to investigate improvements for the canal and the Baltimore connecting navigation channels of Tolchester, Brewerton Eastern Extension, and Swan Point was completed in December 1996 with the signing of the chief of engineers ' report.

Billie Holiday was a famous jazz singer who grew up in Fells Point, Baltimore.

He graduated from Baltimore College in 1812 and fought in the Battles of Bladensburg and North Point in the War of 1812.