Today we spent the afternoon at the B&O Railway museum in Baltimore with our new friends Tim, Juliet and their son Brandon. We learned that this was the first roundhouse in the U.S. and from it came the first mile of railway track ever laid (lain?) in this country. Baltimore is where U.S. rail travel began. We took a ride in a 1940s passenger car on that first mile of track. The B&O line was the 300 or so mile stretch between Baltimore and the Ohio River Valley in Virginia.
The museum had lots of buttons to push, which were just head height for Byron. Instead of using his left hand to push the buttons, he discovered that his nose was a much more effective pushing device. He left nose tracks all over the museum. Oh well – one step forward, two steps back I guess…
Of course this was my favorite car (the Theater one if you couldn't guess. If you said Caboose you're in trouble!):
Today we spent the afternoon at the B&O Railway museum in Baltimore with our new friends Tim, Juliet and their son Brandon. We learned that this was the first roundhouse in the U.S. and from it came the first mile of railway track ever laid (lain?) in this country. Baltimore is where U.S. rail travel began. We took a ride in a 1940s passenger car on that first mile of track. The B&O line was the 300 or so mile stretch between Baltimore and the Ohio River Valley in Virginia.
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