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David J. Lieder. Softcover. New. Softcover, 325 pages, standard portrait format, 280 photographs (46 in Color), 128 maps, and 20 illustrations. This is not a picture book, but a history book that includes many photographs. This book traces the history of the railroads that formed the Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal from the LaSalle & Chicago Railroad projected in 1867 to the Chicago & Great Western, which together with the Chicago & Calumet Terminal formed the Chicago Terminal Transfer, which became the Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal. The Baltimore & Ohio is followed from its entry into Chicago in 1873 to the formation of CSX in 1980. The author had access to a wide variety of materials from the Baltimore & Ohio HS, Soo Line Historical & Technical Society, Chicago & North Western HS and much more. Unlike most railroads, the B&OCT was not built from point A to point B and considered complete. It evolved slowly, adding and subtracting trackage as it was needed. Each of the lines making up the… Leer más