Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Herbert C. Forrester Jr., CSX official

2013-03-12 13:26:00

Herbert Christian Forrester Jr., a retired railroad vice president, died of coronary artery disease Thursday at Mays Chapel Ridge Assisted Living. The former Cockeysville resident was 88. Born in Baltimore and raised in Windsor Hills, he was the son of...

Concord Point Lighthouse seeking volunteers for the season

2013-03-06 09:18:05

Change your clocks, dear readers! Sunday is Daylight Savings Time – set your clocks forward one hour, or you will be like the white rabbit in "Alice in Wonderland," late for a very important date. Grace Place Serving Center will serve a free,...

James G. Thompson, banker

2013-02-16 11:59:32

James Gabriel Thompson, a retired savings and loan association president, died of cerebral vascular disease Jan. 29 at Oak Crest Village. The former Guilford resident was 84. Born in Baltimore and raised in Gwynn Oak, he was the son of Stephen Thompson,...

Clara Mae Boender, teacher

2013-02-04 14:13:14

Clara Mae Boender, a retired reading specialist and elementary school teacher who taught for 54 years, died of multisystem organ failure Jan. 12 at Howard County General Hospital. The Ellicott City resident was 86. Born Clara Mae Crouch in Baltimore...

B&O had storied passenger service

2013-01-24 14:52:58

Joseph J. Snyder has more than a passing interest in railroading and especially the venerable Baltimore & Ohio, whose storied passenger service is the subject of his recently published book. The B&O invented the passenger train. On Jan. 7, 1830, a...

New biography of legendary railroader John Work Garrett

2012-09-27 15:48:23

The optimistic incorporators and builders of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the nation's first common carrier railroad, which was founded in Baltimore in 1827 and began building westward the next year, envisioned it would take 10 years and $10 million...

Laurel Speedway's wooden track hosted auto racing in the 1920s

2012-11-27 06:20:00

Long before there was a Patuxent Greens Golf Course or Stewart Towers high rise building, a mammoth oval race track occupied that area of land off Route 197, near Route 198. Horse racing at Laurel Park racetrack had been ongoing since 1911, but in 1924 an...

Pages from the Past: Unknown disease killing canines in Catonsville in 1912

2012-10-10 00:00:00

An article in the Oct. 12, 1912, edition of The Argus reported on a deadly epidemic that seems to be striking local canines. There is a peculiar disease among dogs in Catonsville and a number of residents have reported the loss of valuable animals from...

7 surprising facts about Howard County

2012-10-08 07:34:00

Did You Know? Howard County is known nationwide for its schools, parks, sports programs, libraries and affluence. But tucked away in faded, aging documents and longtime residents’ minds, there are plenty of little-known facts that might just...

Editorial: Artworks at Maryland House should be put back in place when renovations are done

2012-09-20 05:59:00

Art has an uneasy relationship with the world of commercial enterprise. Commercial artists aren't necessarily held in high regard as they're often charged with tasks like devising nondescript images to hang in the food consumption areas of fast food...

Dr. William Allan Dear Jr., head of nuclear medicine at Mercy

2012-07-26 14:03:09

Dr. William Allan Dear Jr., an internist and former head of the division of nuclear medicine at Mercy Medical Center who also was a practicing magician, died July 20 of heart disease at Union Memorial Hospital. The longtime Guilford resident was 80. "He...

Richard L. Lelonek Sr., Belair-Edison activist

2012-07-24 14:56:37

Richard Lelonek Sr., a retired railroad office worker and veteran Belair-Edison community activist, died July 21 at Maryland Shock Trauma Center of internal injuries related to an auto accident. He was 86 and lived in Northeast Baltimore. Born in...

Chartered in 1827, the Baltimore & Ohio was the first U.S. railroad to offer freight and passenger service to the general public; in its heyday, no rail line was more loved. From Baltimore, it extended west to Illinois, north to New York and south to Virginia (nearly 6,000 miles of track in all).

2013-04-16 00:00:00

This is an exterior shot of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Martinsburg, W.Va. Clarence E. "CEM" Martin III announced a $10,000 posthumous gift to the roundhouse from his mother, Catherine duBois Silver Martin.

2012-12-05 19:36:00

In the early 1800s, the village of Poplar Springs in western Howard County served as a temporary home for travelers headed west. Travelers including Samuel F.B.

2012-10-08 08:02:00