Peninsula Ohio B&O Railroad Train Over Bridge Real Photo Postcard

The Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad, chartered in 1827, was one of the United States' first major railroads, instrumental in the nation's industrial expansion and connecting the East Coast to the burgeoning Midwest. The image depicts a steam locomotive pulling passenger coaches over a substantial trestle bridge, a common engineering solution for traversing varied terrain in the late 19th or early 20th century, representing a peak era of rail travel before widespread automobile and air dominance.