A Momentary Aside – The B&O Museum

Just an aside from the discussions of the layout. My wife and I took some time off to go see her parents and our nephew in Maryland. His dad and granddad are doing a good job introducing him to trains, but we decided to help out with a trip to the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore. It is definitely worth the stop in Baltimore. Currently, the museum is running an exhibit about how the B&O railroaders served during World War I. One element of that display is a diorama built by Bernie Kempinski. Bernie's blog is one of those that I follow regularly. The diorama of Fins France looks just as good in person as it does on Bernie's blog.

Bernie Kempinski's diorama of Fins.

In addition, there is a large G-scale Garden railway, an HO scale layout, and a number of engines of various scales on display around the museum in addition to the full size trains.

B&O Garden Railway.

B&O HO Scale Layout.

One of several model display engines at the museum.

In addition, it turned out that there was a special event at the Museum that day sponsored by CSX to celebrate the first responders and military service of their employees. Introduced at the event were two specially painted CSX locomotives. CSX1776 - in honor of the military service of our veterans, and CSX911 - in honor of the first responders.

CSX1776 - Honoring our Vets.

CSX911 - Honoring our First Responders.

Another part of our visit was the ride over the first mile of the B&O laid out of Baltimore and now operated by the Museum as an exhibition ride. Our engine was a restored B&O EMD GP30. The trip is 10 minutes each way but is an enjoyable part of the visit.

B&O Engine 6944.

It was nice to see the museum again and to enjoy a little time with family. We will get back to the layout plan in upcoming posts.

Cameron Turner