{"id":44910,"date":"2026-08-19T07:59:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=44910"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:07:37","slug":"seamus-reads-about-the-bo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/seamus-reads-about-the-bo\/","title":{"rendered":"Seamus Reads About the B&O"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last weekend, I put the finishing touches on an article about the dawn of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I write old school, searching sources for details, facts, historical continuity, and understanding. For every word I write, I easily read a thousand. In addition to my various previous writings on the B&O, for this effort I filled three notebooks with source material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seamus-the-dog took great interest in my notes and is seen here studying the finer points of Baltimore & Ohio\u2019s early days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thirty years ago, I followed the advice of Baltimore & Ohio scholar John P. Hankey and traveled to Ellicott City for the title transfer of the old B&O Station\u2014believed to be the oldest extant railroad station building in the United States\u2014from CSX to the B&O Museum at Ellicott City, which was occupying the structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the event, the 1927-built replica of Peter Cooper\u2019s engine was brought to Ellicott City and hoisted onto the Old Main Line. They fired it up, and I made a variety of photos of the curious vertical-boiler engine as it chuffed back and forth on the historic B&O right-of-way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tracking the Light Looks Back on the B&O!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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