Original overhead third-rail system on the Baltimore Belt Line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, part of the first mainline railroad electrification in 1895. Photo from 1901.
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Original overhead third-rail system on the Baltimore Belt Line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, part of the first mainline railroad electrification in 1895. Photo from 1901.
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The Baltimore Belt Line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is the First Mainline Railway to be Electrified

1895
B & O Railroad logo possible from a locomotive
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B & O Railroad logo possible from a locomotive

In 1895 the first mainline electrification was installed on a four-mile stretch (Baltimore Belt Line) of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The "B & O" was the second-oldest railroad in the U.S, and the first commercial (passenger) long-distance railroad in the U.S.

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