On a pleasant morning in April of 1970, Baltimore & Ohio’s Metropolitan tears west through Forrest Glen, MD, on its way from Washington, D.C. to Cincinnati. B&O E-unit #1446 leads the consist of two coaches and a Food Bar Coach. The B&O still had one more year of passenger train operations before Amtrak would make this railroad “freight only” (except for commuter trains).
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In its heyday, B&O ran passenger service from Jersey City to Washington, Chicago and St. Louis. But it couldn't compete with the Pennsylvania or New York Central. By the time Amtrak was formed, its trains were a shadow of their former selves.
