{"id":11900,"date":"2018-01-21T15:49:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T20:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/?p=11900"},"modified":"2018-01-21T23:25:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T04:25:16","slug":"february-17-2018-field-trip-the-bo-railroad-museum-baltimore-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/february-17-2018-field-trip-the-bo-railroad-museum-baltimore-md\/","title":{"rendered":"February 17, 2018: Field Trip – The B&O Railroad Museum, Baltimore, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"

February\u2019s field trip will be to the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD, on February 17.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

The museum website<\/a> gives this description of what we\u2019ll see:<\/p>\n

Located among Baltimore City’s historic southwest neighborhoods, at the original site of the historic Mt. Clare Shops, the B&O Railroad Museum\u00a0is\u00a0recognized universally as the birthplace of American railroading. \u2026 A National Historic Landmark, Affiliate of the\u00a0Smithsonian Museum, and independent educational resource, the B&O Railroad Museum collects, preserves\u00a0and interprets artifacts related to early American railroading, particularly the Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Western Maryland, and other mid-Atlantic railroads \u2026. Nearly 200 pieces of locomotives and rolling stock provide acontinuum\u00a0\u00a0of railroad technology history from 1830 through the present day, and\u00a0hundreds of thousands of small artifacts provide a unique glimpse of railroading through tools, exquisite time-pieces,\u00a0fine art, presentation silver, uniforms, furniture, and personal memorabilia. Additionally, an extensive collection of scale models and toy trains illustrate\u00a0America’s long fascination with trains and railroading. And the grounds of the Museum encompass significant historic structures, many of which are restored as well as bridges, earthworks, and archaeological resources.<\/p>\n

The museum offers both indoor and outdoor photo opportunities, a benefit given the unpredictable weather that February brings to the region. The museum is tripod friendly but lighting may be challenging inside.\u00a0We\u2019ll meet at the entrance when the museum opens at 10:00. Admission is $20 for adults, and $17 for seniors (over 60). There is free parking for visitors. Travel time is about an hour from Dunn Loring, and we\u2019ll have lunch at the nearby Inner Harbor.<\/p>\n

We will meet at the museum 10:00 AM. Directions can be found here.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0Signups will be at the meetings in February.<\/p>\n

Shots \u2013 from Steve Steiner are at https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/lz5e6wo2b5ddgpa\/AACGxyD7JVLaZnYn8fqNh7F8a?dl=0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February\u2019s field trip will be to the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD, on February 17.\u00a0 The museum website gives this description of what we\u2019ll see: Located among Baltimore City’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-field-trips","entry","has-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MikeWhalen-02.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 07:57:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11900"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11919,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11900\/revisions\/11919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}